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Using the case of Zambia, this paper examines whether structural change translates into reduced poverty and improved social welfare through an empirical and systematic analysis of the country’s growth trajectory during 1991–2010. We find that growth after 2002 was accompanied by...
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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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"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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"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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"We combined a hydro-crop model with a dynamic general equilibrium (DCGE) model to assess the impacts of climate variability and change on economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia. The hydro-crop model is first used to estimate the impact of climate variability on crop yields over the...
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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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