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The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership …
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This paper estimates required investment and its allocation among different regions to maximize agricultural output gains and poverty reduction. The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and development (R&D) investment across developing regions...
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framework of the Agricultural Development Plan (ADP), is in the process of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture … meeting the Maputo declaration of spending at least ten percent of the government's total budget on agriculture. In fact, even … under a more optimistic and efficient spending scenario, the Government of Malawi must increase its spending on agriculture …
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"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
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"This paper has been prepared in support of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) roundtable … in Ghana. The study also takes a fresh perspective on the role of agriculture for development in light of the global food … percent growth target. In this process, agriculture supports the rest of the economy through substantial and largely invisible …
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"Zambia has experienced strong economic performance since 1999. However, agriculture has not performed as well as the … Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which provides an integrated framework of development priorities aimed at …, is meeting the Maputo declaration of spending at least ten percent of the government's total budget on agriculture. In …
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"In the second half of the 1990s, a series of developments led to a renewed academic and policy interest in the intersection of macroeconomic policy and poverty issues in developing countries. The focus of that work was domestic macroeconomic policies. This paper, however, focuses on the...
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"This paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate the agricultural spending that will be required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty and growth-expenditure elasticities to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038121
"Over the past two decades, Uganda has experienced strong economic growth. However, agriculture has not performed as … Agriculture (PMA) and the Prosperity for All (PFA) initiative, and in support of the upcoming National Development Plan, is in the … process of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which provides an integrated …
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living. The authors of Strategies and Priorities for African Agriculture: Economywide Perspectives from Country Studies argue … increased, more efficient public investment in agriculture and agricultural markets and propose new directions for future …
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