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Structural change in the economy of Nigeria:
Adeyinka, Adedeji; Salau, Sheu; Vollrath, Dietrich - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
We document that structural change accounts for approximately one-fifth of the total change in labor productivity in Nigeria between 1996 and 2009. Labor moved out of the agricultural and wholesale and retail trade sectors into manufacturing, transportation and communications, business services,...
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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries
Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752685
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Foreign inflows and growth challenges for African countries
Diao, Xinshen; Breisinger, Clemens - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Foreign inflows are important sources of income that many African governments use to finance public investments and to support the development of manufacturing or export-oriented service sectors. Yet the recent growth experience of many African economies shows that domestic-oriented industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505321
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Grain marketing policy changes and spatial efficiency of maize and wheat markets in Ethiopia
Negassa, Asfaw; Myers, Robert; Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
"In the context of on-going market reform in developing countries, there is a need for an improvement in the existing methods of spatial market efficiency analysis in order to better inform the debate toward designing and implementing new grain marketing policies, institutions, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996583
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Agricultural exit problems: Causes and consequences
Headey, Derek; Bezemer, Dirk; Hazell, Peter B. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Contrary to conventional economic theories, the relationship between income growth and the share of the population within the rural or agricultural sector is extremely diverse, even among regions starting from similar levels of development, such as Asia and Africa. The pattern in developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038038
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Economic transformation in theory and practice: What are the messages for Africa?
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
development; early withdrawal of public support away from agriculture slows down transformation, and the resulting inequalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038093
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Towards understanding economic growth in Africa: A reinterpretation of the Lewis Model:
Diao, Xinshen; McMillan, Margaret S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Africa’s recent economic growth is at a historical high, the patterns associated with this growth appear to be quite different from the Asian experiences where rapid growth was fueled by labor intensive, export-oriented manufacturing. Because this pattern differs with our typical view of...
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Accelerated growth and structural transformation: Assessing Ghana’s options to reach middle-income status
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Yu, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The Government of Ghana has declared its new development goal of reaching middle-income status by 2015. Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132791
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Agriculture and the economic transformation of Ethiopia:
Mellor, John W.; Dorosh, Paul A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850557
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Exploring agricultural levers for mitigating the overnutrition burden in India:
Sachdev, H.P.S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
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