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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural … productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272208
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Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance
Long, Cheryl; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476187
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Agricultural productivity and policies in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Yu, Bingxin; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395594
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Growth in total factor productivity in the Ethiopian agriculture sector: Growth accounting and econometric assessments of sources of growth
Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132633
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An updated look at the recovery of agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Nin Pratt, Alejandro; Yu, Bingxin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 40 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038002
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Agriculture, food, and health perspectives on a long relationship: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Lang, Tim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value, and whether it is safe, all of which affect human health....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996953
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Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: Evidence from handloom enterprises in Ethiopia
Ali, Merima; Peerlings, Jack; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
industrialization when local conditions do not allow easy access to credit. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862357
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Alternative industrial development paths for Indonesia: SAM and CGE analyses
Bautista, Romeo M.; Robinson, Sherman; El-Said, Moataz - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
multiplier analysis indicate relatively strong macro-linkages from agricultural demand-led (ADL) industrialization, yielding a … industrialization is associated with a larger GDP increase than the two industrial-led development paths. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863969
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Rising wages in Bangladesh:
Zhang, Xiaobo; Rashid, Shahidur; Ahmad, Kaikaus; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Using data from multiple sources, we show that in Bangladesh, the increase in real wages, particularly female wages, has accelerated since the late 2000s, suggesting that the Lewis turning point (the point at which the labor market starts to shift in favor of workers) has arrived in Bangladesh....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132716
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Structural change in Argentina, 1935–60: The role of import substitution and factor endowments
Debowicz, Dario; Segal, Paul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
This paper investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and … relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132737