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Africa Can Help Feed Africa : Removing Barriers to Regional Trade in Food Staples
World Bank - 2012
Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising global food prices, brings ever-mounting food import bills. In addition, population growth and changing demand patterns will double demands over the next 10 years. Two key...
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Vertical and Regional Integration to Promote African Textiles and Clothing Exports : A Close Knit Family?
World Bank - 2012
countries with competitive labor costs, especially in South and East Asia, have captured significant shares in the world market …
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De-fragmenting Africa : Deepening Regional Trade Integration in Goods and Services
World Bank - 2013
This book is the result of an extensive agenda of analytical work on regional trade integration in Africa involving staff from various units of the Africa region of the World Bank. The aim of this volume is to provide the main messages from this work to a wide audience the private sector, civil...
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Indicators to Monitor Deeper Regional Trade Integration in Africa
World Bank - 2015
Stronger regional integration has been a policy priority in Africa for several decades. Countries in Africa have committed to a process of deeper integration, but have made little progress in implementing commitments and removing barriers. This report looks at the monitoring of regional...
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Restoring the Asian Silk Route: Toward an Integrated Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N; De, Prabir - eSocialSciences - 2009
Lack of full regional connectivity is one of the major constraints hindering regional growth and integration in Asia …, as well as with the rest of the world. One of the conclusions of this paper is that Asia must strengthen its physical … and transport integration issues among the countries in Asia as well as challenges that need to be addressed in order to …
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Dialogue to address the roots of resource competition: Lessons for policy and practice
Ratner, B.D.; Burnley, C.; Mugisha, S.; Madzudzo, E.; … - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
Conflict management is an intrinsic element of natural resource management, and becomes increasingly important amid growing pressure on natural resources from local uses, as well as from external drivers such as climate change and international investment. If policymakers and practitioners aim...
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. A...
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Increasing productivity and improving livelihoods in aquatic agricultural systems: A review of interventions
Castine, S.A.; Sellamuttu, S.S.; Cohen, P.; Chandrabalan, D. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
Aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) are food production systems in which the productivity of freshwater or coastal ecosystems contributes significantly to total household nutrition, food security, and income in developing countries. The Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research...
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Fisheries and aquaculture research planning needs for Africa and West Asia
Annala, J.H. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
management in the Africa and West Asia region. …
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Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2009
Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pressures and causes severe hardship for poor households lacking access to social safety nets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479134