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This paper reviews the status of Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the potential economic … benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa and the effect biotechnology policies may have on growth, production and poverty reduction. The … property rights (IPRs) and market concentration on the development and diffusion of biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa is …
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Conflict and political instability have considerably weakened Guinea-Bissau’s productive infrastructure during the past … for a book that provides a collection of papers on conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau based on both a … findings in the areas of conflict, growth and poverty, institutions and social networks, the characteristics of the poor and …
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Agricultural productivity in Africa from 1971 to 2000 is examined using the recently developed metafrontier function … in one region to compete with agricultural sectors in different regions in Africa. The study has also evidenced that …
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show that ambitious coefficients in the market access pillar remain the best outcome for Africa. Even what might seem to be … dampens the expected positive outcomes for agriculture negotiations in favour of Africa but could also actually wipe out such …
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I show how abundant land and scarce labor shaped African institutions before colonial rule. I present a model in which exogenous land quality and endogenously evolving population determine the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I use cross-sectional data on pre-colonial African...
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the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is …
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I test Bates' view that trade across ecological divides promoted the development of states in pre-colonial Africa. My …
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Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Planters have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also …
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African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering slave supply costs. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which predicts adverse outcomes today. We use an annual panel of African...
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African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering the cost of supplying slaves. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which is associated with adverse outcomes today. We merge annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110014