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Mobility, migration, and rural-urban changes:

Garrett, James L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

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Policies and institutions: removing barriers to rural-urban exchange

Garrett, James L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997096

Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon:

Cattaneo, Andrea - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

"Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do...

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Asymmetric property rights in China's economic growth:

Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"This paper highlights the difference between secure investor property rights and loosely defined individual property rights. Globalization and fiscal decentralization have intensified this difference. On the one hand, in the presence of mobile foreign direct investments and under the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037952

Moving up and moving down: a new way of examining country growth dynamics

Rockmore, Marc; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Do the countries which grow share the same features as those which decline? How can some countries achieve such long-term sustainable growth while others fail so badly? This paper builds on the emerging literature on growth asymmetries by examining movement across income categories in the World...

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A multi-level analysis of public spending, growth and poverty reduction in Egypt:

Fan, Shenggen; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; El-Said, Moataz; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Egypt is a lower middle-income country with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in 2003 of US$3,949 measured in international dollars, or purchasing power parity (World Bank 2005a). In the decade from 1975 to 1985, Egypt enjoyed rapid economic growth... however... Egypt still lags behind...

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Public spending and poverty reduction in an oil-based economy: The case of Yemen

Chemingui, Mohamed Abdelbasset - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

economy-wide technical factor productivity. Results of public spending experiments show that targeting increased amounts of … in Yemen, additional public spending on health and education does not improve productivity in the oil sector. Therefore …

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Race to the top and race to the bottom: Tax competition in rural China:

Yao, Yi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Fiscal federalism has been argued to intensify regional competition and promote economic growth. This paper is the first, to our knowledge, to empirically assess the patterns and extent of strategic tax competition between geographically neighboring governments in China. Using a panel data set...

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Biofuels, poverty, and growth: A computable general equilibrium analysis of Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Benfica, Rui; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Large private investments in biofuels are presently underway in Mozambique. This paper uses an economywide model to assess the implications of these investments for growth and income distribution. Our results indicate that biofuels provide an opportunity to enhance growth and poverty reduction....

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Agglomeration, migration, and regional growth: A CGE analysis for Uganda

Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

southern capital city and encourage north-south migration, and (3) improve agricultural productivity in rural areas. We examine … productivity gains from urban agglomeration effects. Simulation results indicate that a north-south corridor benefits northern … households, but its benefits are limited by the small size of northern urban centers and the low productivity of northern …

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