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adopt new agricultural technology and improved practices, and keep farm and household assets. It is equally important to …
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little is known about how these opportunities can be effectively leveraged to promote pro-poor processes of rural innovation … smallholders' innovation processes. Case studies of smallholder innovation networks in 10 communities suggest that public sector … that create more space for market and civil society actors to participate in smallholder innovation networks." from Author …
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, organizations, institutions, or policies. Innovation means putting ideas, knowledge, and technology to work in a manner that brings … policies and other institutions. Formal and informal knowledge and innovation must therefore be linked to accelerate … pursuit of innovation. For innovation to occur, knowledge must be created, accumulated, shared, and used. Innovations …
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enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among farming, natural resource stocks and flows, rural infrastructure, and the …
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"This paper explores disparities in local public service provision between decentralized districts in Ghana using district- and household-level data. The empirical results show that districts' geographic locations play a major role in shaping disparities in access to local public services in...
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district and household level data. The results show that districts' geography plays a major role in shaping disparities in …
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"Do the countries which grow share the same features as those which decline? How can some countries achieve such long-term sustainable growth while others fail so badly? This paper builds on the emerging literature on growth asymmetries by examining movement across income categories in the World...
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This paper tests a series of prominent hypotheses regarding how institutions, geography, and trade interact to …
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The opportunities and constraints facing Ethiopian agriculture are strongly influenced by conditions which vary across geographical space. These conditions include basic agricultural production potentials, access to input and output markets, and local population densities which represent both...
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access to public infrastructure and services to land value and a panel of household-level data on consumption, poverty, and … as further research into precisely how infrastructure and services affect rural households' welfare and how their …
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