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Overview of the Current Food Security Crisis in Zambia

Samatebele, Helen M - HAL - 2003

Zambia was economically prosperous at independence (1964), due to the thriving copper industry. Zambia has the … being utilized. Agriculture generates about 22% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides direct livelihood to more than … economy. Zambia is one of the countries in the southern Africa sub-region faced with a food crisis attributed to a complex …

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Improving aid effectiveness in aid-dependent countries : lessons from Zambia

Beuran, Monica; Raballand, Gaël; Revilla, Julio - HAL - 2011

Zambia was a middle-income country when it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1964. After decades of … international aid Zambia has become a low-income country, and its per capita GDP is only now returning to the levels it had reached … over forty years ago. While aid is far from the only variable at work in Zambia's development, its impact has been …

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Growth, public investment and corruption with failing institutions

Croix, David De La; Delavallade, Clara - HAL - 2008

Corruption is thought to prevent poor countries from catching up with richer ones. We analyze one channel through which corruption hampers growth : public investment can be distorted in favor of specific types of spending for which rent-seeking is easier and better concealed. To study this...

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Complementarity between private and public investment in R&D: A Dynamic Panel Data analysis

Tarek, Sadraoui; Zina, Naceur Ben - HAL - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between private and public investment in R&D, while taking into account the effect of several instruments policies such as subsidies and taxes. We design a new look of knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation to explain the contribution of public and...

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Developing economies in the current climate regime : new prospects for resilience and sustainability ? The case of CDM projects in Asia

Lacour, Pauline; Simon, Jean-Christophe - HAL - 2011

This paper offers a review of the current position of developing countries in the climate regime and international negotiations based primarily on the analysis of implementation of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The paper will place emphasis on changes in national policies to accommodate CDM...

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Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research challenges

Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe - HAL - 2013

In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rainfed and crop yield depends highly on climatic factors …

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" POUR UNE APPROCHE SYSTEMIQUE DE L'EVALUATION DE LA DURABILITE DE L'AGRICULTURE : UNE SYNTHESE DES APPROCHES AGRO-ECONOMIQUES ET GEOGRAPHIQUES ?

Tafani, Caroline - HAL - 2011

concept de " système agraire territorialisé " et conduit à évaluer la durabilité d'une agriculture micro-régionale à partir de …

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Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: what consequences for population's health?

Drabo, Alassane - HAL - 2011

In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically, the role played by each trade component has not yet...

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Agriculture and trade liberalization in Vietnam

Coello, Barbara - HAL - 2007

and regions. Trade liberalization in agriculture, between 1993 and 1998 has increased inequalities in Vietnam, with a …

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The optimal carbon sequestration in agricultural soils : does the dynamics of the physical process matter ?

Ragot, Lionel; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2006

The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...

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