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insufficient public investment in all kinds of regions. Nevertheless, the results show that there is opportunity to improve on the … growth and poverty impacts of total public investment through better regional targeting of specific types of investment. For …
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"Uganda's rapid urbanization, particularly in the capital city Kampala, offers new market opportunities for organized farmers to supply higher value produce for emerging growth markets such as multinational supermarket chains and fast food restaurants. Higher urban incomes allow consumers to...
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The African Development Bank (AfDB), in commissioning this report to be prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), highlighted the need for a comprehensive, evidenced-based review of agricultural biotechnology in order to better understand its current status, issues,...
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Innovations are a key driver of long-term economic growth. There has been an explosion of patent filings in China in the past three decades. But empirical studies on the pattern of innovations at the firm level are rather scant primarily due to lack of firm-specific patent data. We have made...
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Talhelm et al. (2014) provided an original rice theory to explain large psychological differences across countries and … even within countries and their impact on innovation. However, their findings are subject to the problems of sample bias …, measurement error, and model misspecification. After correcting these problems, most findings in the original paper no longer hold …
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provides evidence that are contrary to earlier findings on induced innovation theory. Using a unique panel dataset, we examine …
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producing countries and the key constraint of the sector remains its lack of innovation. Current production technology in the … concerns about the incentives and policies required to promote and sustain technological innovation in the sector." from text …
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–private partnerships contribute to reducing the cost of research, whether they add value to research by facilitating innovation, and …
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"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
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"Malaria afflicts many people in the developing world, and due to its direct and indirect costs it has widespread impacts on growth and development. The global impact of malaria on human health, productivity, and general well-being is profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been...
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