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Can agricultural households farm their way out of poverty ?

Oseni, Gbemisola; McGee, Kevin; Dabalen, Andrew - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11. The findings indicate an elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to agricultural productivity of between...

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Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2010

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Agricultural pricing and environmental degradation

Barbier, Edward B.; Burgess, Joanne C. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

property resource rights; (3) land tenure regimes and security; (4) access to technology and other farming systems information …

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Heterogeneity, distribution, and cooperation in common property resource management

Kanbur, Ravi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

The report considers the role of group heterogeneity in the success or failure of common property resource management. The author argues that cooperative agreements are less likely to come about when agents are highly heterogeneous along relevant dimensions - and existing agreements are more...

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An ecological and historical perspective on agricultural development in Southeast Asia

Hayami, Yujiro - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

According to Mint's"vent for surplus"theory, development of the economies of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand from the nineteenth century on depended on the natural advantage of large tracts of unused"empty land"with low population density and abundant natural resources of the type...

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The poverty/environment nexus in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic

Dasgupta, Susmita; Deichmann, Uwe; Meisner, Craig; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Environmental degradation can inflict serious damage on poor people because their livelihoods often depend on natural resource use and their living conditions may offer little protection from air, water, and soil pollution. At the same time, poverty-constrained options may induce the poor to...

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Trends in infrastructure in Latin America, 1980-2001

Calderon, Cesar; Serven, Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

There is widespread concern across Latin America that the provision of infrastructure services has suffered as a consequence of the retrenchment of the public sector and the insufficient response of the private sector to the opening up of infrastructure industries to private participation in...

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Intercommodity price transmittal : analysis offood markets in Ghana

Alderman, Harold - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

This report expands on a dynamic model of market integration to investigate how information is transmitted across commodities. The author investigates one property of an efficient market : the full use of available information. Studies of spatial price integration simultaneously looks at the...

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The impact of NAFTA and options for tax reform in Mexico

Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Chen, Duanjie - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had a profound impact on Mexico's economy and institutions. Clearly, no consideration of tax reform can ignore its role. The thinking about tax reform in Mexico requires evaluating NAFTA's effect on Mexico's economy, including its tax...

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Deregulating technology transfer in agriculture : reform's impact on turkey in the 1980s

Gisselquist, David; Pray, Carl - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

private firms delivering technology and inputs. The authors show that Turkish regulatory reform affecting seeds and other … inputs in the 1980s: 1) Greatly increased private technology transfer into Turkey. 2) Encouraged market entry for more … input markets. 4) Where inputs brought new technology, allowed farmers to significantly increase yields and production. The …

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