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Food policy and market reform in Viet Nam and Bangladesh: essay in Annual Report
Ahmed, Raisuddin; Goletti, Francesco - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996830
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Land tenure and natural resource management
Otsuka, Keijiro; Place, Frank - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
The devastating environmental effects of deforestation and the exploitation of other natural resources in the developing world have been well documented, yet their impact on local communities has received far less attention. This report looks at how land degradation and deforestation are being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996867
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Rice market liberalization and poverty in Viet Nam:
Minot, Nicholas; Goletti, Francesco - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
Market liberalization, though an important element in economic reforms in developing countries in the past two decades, has been accused of harming the poor through higher food prices, layoffs in formerly state-owned enterprises, and the erosion of social safety net programs. Since the 1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037883
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Economic growth and poverty reduction in Indochina: lessons from East Asia
Bautista, Romeo M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
, Myanmar, Viet Nam, and China) in advancing the twin objectives of economic growth and poverty reduction. The paper first … examines the comparative growth performance of these two groups of Asian economies over the period 1970-1997, describes the … paper: (1) sustaining reform efforts toward market orientation; (2) promoting broad-based agricultural growth; (3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863978
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Economic implications of foreign exchange rationing in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Robinson, Sherman; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Ethiopia enjoyed remarkable economic growth from 2004/05 to 2008/09, in large part due to increases in foreign … in infrastructure and housing. However, this rapid growth was accompanied by a major appreciation of the real exchange … the effects of changes in world prices and to assess dynamic effects of shocks and policies on growth and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933116
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Economic partnership agreements between the European Union and African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries: What is at stake for Senegal
Berisha-Krasniqi, Valdete; Bouet, Antoine; Mevel, Simon - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
Growth Opportunity Act) while applying a high domestic protection on all sources of imports. As a result, this type of reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038111
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Economic implications of foreign exchange rationing in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Robinson, Sherman; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
This paper examines macro-economic developments in Ethiopia between 2004/05 and 2008/09, focusing on the external accounts and the real exchange rate. Simulations using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of Ethiopia's economy show that, compared to a policy of foreign exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114815
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Spatial integration of maize markets in post-liberalized Uganda
Rashid, Shahidur - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
"Using weekly price data for two sub-periods, this paper analyzes how Ugandan maize market performed in the years following agricultural market liberalization in the early 1990's. For each time period, the extent of integration, causality among spatial locations, and relative importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996564
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Public investment to reverse Dutch disease: the case of Chad
Levy, Stephanie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper studies the relevance of agricultural policies for avoiding Dutch Disease, which affects many less developed countries experiencing a resource boom. Using a computable general equilibrium model calibrated for Chad, we study the impact of using this country's annual oil revenue for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037966
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Maize Price Differences and Evidence of Spatial Integration in Malawi: The case of selected markets:
Nyongo, Lovemore - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This study tests the long-run and short-run integration of maize markets in Malawi using the co-integration approach within the Vector Autoregressive modeling framework. The analysis is extended to Wald-F Granger Causality tests to see the direction of causality between maize markets. A total of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762091