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Accelerated growth and structural transformation: Assessing Ghana’s options to reach middle-income status
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Yu, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The Government of Ghana has declared its new development goal of reaching middle-income status by 2015. Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the...
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How safe is my food?: Assessing the effect of information and credible certification on consumer demand for food safety in developing countries
Birol, Ekin; Roy, Devesh; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
steadily increasing, although low food safety standards in these countries still prevail. In this paper, we argue that ATP …, while necessary, is not the sole condition for WTP and that credible information about and certification of food safety are …-income populations. In this experiment, we sold grapes with credible food safety certification labels and the exact same grapes (a …
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Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia:
Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holden, Stein - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how …
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The role of agriculture in the fast-growing Rwandan economy: Assessing growth alternatives:
Diao, Xinshen; Bahiigwa, Godfrey; Pradesha, Angga - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This study assesses the future growth prospects of Rwanda. The report first focuses on broad economic growth using a rather aggregated 18-sector dynamic general equilibrium model to display the trade-off between rapid growth and structural change. The analysis shows that with the current...
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Financial constraints and international trade with endogenous mode of competition:
Bouët, Antoine; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
reduces firms’ production capacities and exports (intensive margin). By making it more difficult to engage in a (highly …
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Reforming agricultural markets in Africa: Achievements and challenges
Kherallah, Mylene (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger and promoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central role in the region's economies....
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Policy distortions in the segmented rice market:
Rakotoarisoa, Manitra A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"High production and export subsidies in developed countries and high protection in both developed and developing countries have distorted rice trade. This study estimates the impact of rice policy distortions on developing countries' rice production and trade potential. Because rice markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996536
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Changing fish trade and demand patterns in developing countries and their significance for policy research
Delgado, Christopher L.; Courbois, Claude - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997
important source of food and exports. Developed countries accounted for 85 percent of net world fish imports in 1994, mostly at … fisheries exports from developing countries went from less than a third of net developing country exports of sugar, beverage …
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Rural economy and farm income diversification in developing countries
Delgado, Christopher L.; Siamwalla, Ammar - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997
Farm-level diversification, the adoption of alternative income-generating activities by farm households, is rarely deemed an explicit objective by economists. Where agricultural transformation has occurred, markets function well and agriculture is a waning portion of overall national product,...
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Property rights and crop choice in rural Peru, 1994-2004:
Field, Alfred J.; Field, Erica; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"The period of 1994 to 2004 was one in which rural households in Peru experienced dramatic changes in ownership rights through a large nation-wide land titling program and a significant opening of the economy to international trade. This paper takes this prime opportunity to examine whether lack...
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