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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 … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests …
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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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productivity, growth declines and the GDP share of the nontraded sector further increases. Smart use of oil revenue thus not only … investment-to-productivity-growth efficiency, public investments take longer to overcome the negative growth effects the higher … support the development of manufacturing or export-oriented service sectors. Yet the recent growth experience of many African …
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growth and poverty. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of a biofuels industry in Tanzania … requires engaging and improving the productivity of smallholder farmers. Evidence shows that cassava-based ethanol production …-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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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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"We use two rounds of surveys, taken in 2000 and 2008 in the Zhili Township children's garment cluster in Zhejiang Province, to examine in depth the evolution of this industrial cluster. Firm size has grown on average in terms of output and employment, and increasing divergence in firm sizes has...
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both productivity-enhancing investments and an oil fund is crucial to achieving shared growth and macroeconomic stability … and timing of resource-rent spending. This model also considers productivity spillovers over time, which may exhibit a …, the relationship between windfall profits, growth, and households' welfare is less straightforward than what the simple …
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