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""The Government of Ghana has identified accelerated growth in agriculture as the source of its overall Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II) and reaching middle-income status by 2015. Using data from the recent Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSSV) to estimate the determinants of (i)...
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specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the …
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"Extreme interannual variability of precipitation within Ethiopia is not uncommon, inducing droughts or floods and often creating serious repercussions on agricultural and non-agricultural commodities. An agro-economic model, including mean climate variables, was developed to assess irrigation...
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supply. Such "land-improving investments" are needed to reduce production and subsistence risks and permit more intensive use …
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"Sustained, well-targeted, and effectively used investments in R&D have reaped handsome rewards from improved … investments in agricultural R&D are changing in ways that may have profound consequences for the structure of agriculture …
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"Science and technology (S&T) are major contributors to food security, poverty reduction, and economic growth, as has been proven in Asia since the early-1970s through the Green Revolution in agriculture. Continuing to secure such gains, however, is becoming an increasingly complex undertaking....
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"Governments in Asia used grain price stabilization as a major policy instrument when they began to promote the Green Revolution in the 1960s. In the process, they created parastatal agencies, which were quasi-governmental in nature, to undertake public marketing activities in basic staples such...
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"While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child's health capital, investments in schooling …
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"This paper examines the effects of early childhood nutrition on schooling inputs and outcomes to assess the dynamic nature of human capital production, using panel data from South Africa. Height-for-age Z-score is used as a measure of health and nutritional status in early childhood. Based on a...
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