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The reform, a key component of a larger economic recovery and adjustment operation, and of the agricultural sector strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously regulated by a marketing board. The main objectives of the...
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The five main lessons for Southern Africa from our review of the experiencewith cross-border power trading in other regions of the work are that: Security of supply concerns need to be explicitly addressed and understood by the parties to proposed cross-border transactions. Regional entities...
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impact all traders similarly. Studies by the World Bank, for example, found that men and women traders often face different …- specific associations. This study in Tajikistan explored a range of topics, primarily within the scope of the World Trade … crossings in the country. The work was built upon a similar methodology developed and used in other surveys by the World Bank …
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The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders … greater world, today, networks of information and communication technologies (ICTs) enmesh the globe and represent a … and the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank Group, with significant contributions from outside …
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The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders … greater world, today, networks of information and communication technologies (ICTs) enmesh the globe and represent a … and the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank Group, with significant contributions from outside …
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"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … crucially on the extent to which high-income countries are willing to lower domestic support to their cotton farmers. "--World …
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household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local markets may be relatively more isolated from changes in world … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …
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on a data set recently compiled by the World Bank with specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of … progress. "--World Bank web site …
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