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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries
Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
public investment on urban and rural poverty through case studies of India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. And it highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752685
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132690
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850580
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Foreign inflows and growth challenges for African countries
Diao, Xinshen; Breisinger, Clemens - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
sudden increase in petrodollars used to finance either the governments recurrent spending or public investment generates a … involves the creation of an oil fund but also spending inflows on productivity-enhancing investment. Whether public investments … investment-to-productivity-growth efficiency, public investments take longer to overcome the negative growth effects the higher …
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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Economic transformation in theory and practice: What are the messages for Africa?
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Encouraging signs of growth acceleration in Africa may herald a new development era of rapid transformation. In an effort to promote the future success of African transformation, we herein provide an extensive literature review on development economics and empirical observations from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038093
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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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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272208
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Financial constraints and international trade with endogenous mode of competition:
Bouët, Antoine; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
The goal of this paper is to examine how financial constraints affect firms’ decisions to export when the mode of intra-sectoral competition is endogenous. We propose an extension of Neary and Tharakan’s (2012) model, in which firms resort to external funders to finance fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272219