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/ Sushil Pandey Brief 5. Returns to public investment: Evidence from India and China / Shenggen Fan and Peter Hazell Brief 6 …
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Andes; Tecnologias para las tierras altas del sudeste de Asia; Utilidades de la inversion publica: datos de la India y China …
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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requires urgent actions to improve the productivity and climate resilience of agriculture and to upgrade the food value chains …
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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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profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been recognized as one of the reasons for the increased intensity of …. Since agriculture is the main activity of rural people in many endemic areas, it has been suggested that effective malaria … control measures can be devised if attention was paid to the two-way effects of agriculture and malaria. There is the need to …
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"The rapidly changing nature of the global food and agriculture system suggests the need to rethink how innovation can … contribute to developing-country agriculture. While scientific and technological changes in agriculture can help foster … which they are a part. A more systems-oriented understanding of how innovation occurs in a society and economy is critical …
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"The implications of China's growth for the development prospects of Sub-Saharan Africa have been the subject of recent attention. Interest in this topic is motivated by the increasing presence of China in the region and the growing bilateral trade links between China and Africa. Against this...
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"This paper is a description and an analysis of trade liberalization under CAFTA. It shows that in the short run the impact of the agreement is likely to be small... Since the U.S. already grants tariff-free access under the CBI, trade liberalization in the CAFTA treaty appears to be asymmetric,...
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"Increased regional inequality has been a major concern in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and … accounts for the largest share of overall income inequality. But agriculture is still the rural people's major source of …
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