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Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The … require Ghana to double its per capita income over the next decade. In this paper we explore the growth experiences of other … evaluate sources of accelerated growth and their contributions to overall growth and transformation... The authors conclude …
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following agricultural market liberalization in the early 1990's. For each time period, the extent of integration, causality … have been tested within Johansen's cointegration framework. The relative importance of each market locations is examined by … since 1986, continue to lack integration with major consumption markets in the central region. Causality test results show …
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as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …
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-change-induced higher global prices for food will lower Yemen's overall GDP growth, raise agricultural GDP, decrease real household incomes …
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support the development of manufacturing or export-oriented service sectors. Yet the recent growth experience of many African … economic growth and structural change by developing a multisector intertemporal general equilibrium model. We find that the … substantial short-run growth shock consistent with the Dutch disease theory. Opposed short-run effects on the growth of the …
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growth and poverty. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of a biofuels industry in Tanzania …-poor growth than do sugarcane-based systems. However, if smallholder yields can be improved rather than expanding cultivated land …
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development (R&D) investment across developing regions (1) to maximize agricultural growth or (2) to maximize poverty reduction at … results are robust for a wide range of parameters and show that to maximize agricultural output growth in developing countries …
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Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question, we survey the empirical literature at micro and macro levels concerning …
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internal conflicts, decreasing oil revenues, and governance failure. The latest official growth numbers date back to precrisis … consistent economic framework is presented to help close this information gap and to better understand growth and poverty … dynamics during crises. Results show that economic growth in Yemen accelerated during the food and fuel crises in 2008 because …
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