productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural …

Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests … that inexpensive health interventions can have a very large impact on labor productivity. The macro-level evidence at the …

increase in agricultural productivity and reduction in poverty rate." from authors' abstract …

investment strategies for Ethiopia, as well as on the country's gross domestic product growth rates and poverty rates." from text …

investment strategies for Ethiopia, as well as on the country's gross domestic product growth rates and poverty rates." from text …

on Investment Decisions in Ethiopia by Paul J. Block, Kenneth Strzepek, Mark Rosegrant, and Xinshen Diao Brief 14 …

insufficient public investment in all kinds of regions. Nevertheless, the results show that there is opportunity to improve on the … growth and poverty impacts of total public investment through better regional targeting of specific types of investment. For …

"This paper uses models of irreversible investment under uncertainty to examine the investment and abandonment behavior … trees. The observed levels of investment and abandonment are found to be consistent with models of investment that allow for …