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The Chinese economy has recently experienced a rapid and fundamental transformation, and the public expenditure on agriculture has also changed to reflect shifts in policy priorities. This paper reviewed public agricultural expenditure in a comprehensive way using detailed expenditure data at...
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increase in farmers� investment in irrigation is essential. While Nigerian farmers� low level of investment in irrigation … an investment. Although reducing transaction costs is important because the reduction provides farmers with a more … return from irrigation investment. …
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investment strategies for Ethiopia, as well as on the country's gross domestic product growth rates and poverty rates." from text …
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investment strategies for Ethiopia, as well as on the country's gross domestic product growth rates and poverty rates." from text …
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on Investment Decisions in Ethiopia by Paul J. Block, Kenneth Strzepek, Mark Rosegrant, and Xinshen Diao Brief 14 … Strzepek, Mark Rosegrant, and Xinshen Diao Brief 16: Risk Aversion in Low-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia …
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"Using Tanzania as a test case, this study demonstrates how household survey data can be used to assess the impacts of … 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 …
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"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 …
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"This paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate the agricultural spending that will be required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty and growth-expenditure elasticities to estimate...
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planned projects. This paper analyzes large, dam-based and small-scale irrigation investment needs in Africa based on …
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Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge for economists. This review paper aims to answer the question: Does improved population health lead to higher rates of agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question,...
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