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and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …
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Ethiopia enjoyed remarkable economic growth from 2004/05 to 2008/09, in large part due to increases in foreign transfers and capital inflows combined with expanded domestic credit to fund major increases in private and public investments in infrastructure and housing. However, this rapid growth...
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Dawa, and Harari) and from 43.6 to 32.6 in rural areas. Given rapid agriculture-led economic growth between 2004-05 and …
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Ethiopia’s crop agriculture is complex, involving substantial variation in crops grown across the countryâ …€™s agriculture and food economy, accounting for about three-quarters of total area cultivated, 29 percent of agricultural GDP in 2005 …
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In spite of remarkable growth in Ethiopia’s agricultural production and overall real incomes (GDP/capita) from 2004/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real terms. International prices of cereals also...
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literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for … agriculture given the importance of farm incomes for the poor, the extent to which this is true varies by country. In fact …, elasticities for certain nonagricultural sectors are much closer to those in agriculture. Overall, elasticities are typically …
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This paper presents an overview of crop agriculture in Ethiopia, focusing mainly on cereal production. Ethiopiaâ …€™s crop agriculture continues to be dominated by the country’s numerous small farms that cultivate mainly cereals for both …
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his paper examines the importance of achieving high agricultural growth as a means of accelerating Ethiopia’s economic transformation. The conclusions are that a high rate of agricultural growth has farreaching positive implications for increasing employment and accelerating poverty...
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Beginning in April 2008, lack of access to foreign exchange effectively stopped private sector wheat imports. Government imports and subsidized sales to millers and households in late 2008, subsequently increased domestic supply and lowered market wheat prices, though market prices remained...
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This paper examines macro-economic developments in Ethiopia between 2004/05 and 2008/09, focusing on the external accounts and the real exchange rate. Simulations using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of Ethiopia's economy show that, compared to a policy of foreign exchange...
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