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Endowed with 80 million hectares of arable land (of which only 10 percent are used), diverse climatic conditions, and abundant water resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to become the breadbasket of the entire African continent. Instead, the country is one of the...
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-term price effects between the world maize market and some Ethiopian regional markets. Using the Almost Ideal Demand System, we … characteristics of household demand across locations are more likely to induce misleading policy recommendations. " from authors …
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this paper, we present results from an experimental demand-elicitation exercise in rural Bangladesh to shed light on … evenly split their endowment between life and disability insurance and agricultural insurance. Demand for area … group savings does not alter demand for insurance, though group savings is found to be a particularly popular risk …
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Though input vouchers are being publicized as a mechanism to simultaneously target subsidies and develop demand in … private markets, limited empirical evidence of their effect on private input demand exists. Few empirical studies, if any …, exist on the effect of targeted subsidies on private input demand in Nigeria or West Africa . Consequently this study begins …
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In this paper we assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a recently developed variety of maize that is high in provitamin A in the context of a public health intervention and (b) the performance of three elicitation mechanisms in estimating WTP in a field experiment in Ghana....
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model by adding demand elasticities from the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS). We use the integrated Ugandan National …
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The development debate in Africa south of the Sahara is often cast as “agriculture versus nonagriculture.†Yet this view overlooks the heterogeneity within these broad sectors and the synergies between them. We estimate sectoral poverty–growth elasticities using economywide...
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. This provides both historical and current information with which to assess the determinants of demand. We find that … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …
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This study analyzes consumer acceptance of biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia by eliciting consumers' willingness to pay. It attempts to examine the impact of nutrition information, comparing the use of simulated radio versus community leaders in transmitting the nutrition message, on...
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"To examine how local income distribution affects both a community's ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household...
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