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The effects of climate change in Turkey are expected to be significant. The aim of this paper is to quantify the …
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The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than nonagriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … not fundamentally unequal. However, when it comes to the better-off poor (reflected in the $2-day measure), non-agriculture …
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industrialization, as well as the expansion of other sectors. This occured at the expense of agriculture, which accounts for the largest …
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Climate change may damage road infrastructure to the potential detriment of economic growth, particularly in developing countries. To quantitatively assess climate changeâ..s consequences, we construct a climate-infrastructure model based on stressor-response relationships and link this to a...
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This paper explores the impacts of informatin technology investment on economic groth in a cross-section of 39 countries in the period 1980-95 by applying an explicit model of economic growth, the augmented version of the neoclassical (Solow) growth model.
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The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …
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agriculture there …
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Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper … provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture …
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Food prices increased significantly in 2007.08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The Ethiopian government released emergency food grain reserves, imported and distributed wheat at subsidized price, banned the export of staple cer
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