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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world. This study uses country-level data to model changes in forest area over an 18 year period (1990-2007) in 35 African countries and investigates the role played by important...
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. Governments, donors, and foreign investors have underinvested in African agriculture even though research evidence shows that … Moments to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture and rural development is helping to boost … agriculture is primarily determined by agricultural need, and that the expected effectiveness increases the ODA receipts. Finally …
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) and agriculture. Despite increasing attention on the subject, existing studies are sparse on the channels through which … regression model to assess both the impact and transmission of ICTs on agriculture in 18 sub-Saharan African countries. The … agriculture but also a positive indirect effect through its impact on financial development and trade openness and a negative …
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Low productivity among female farmers when compared with their male counterparts is considered an outcome of limited access to agricultural land and inputs. The objective of this investigation was to assess the impact of multinational oil companies' (MOCs') CSR on rural women access to modern...
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This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the corporate social responsibility initiatives of multinational oil companies in Nigeria. Its main focus is to investigate the impact of the global memorandum of understanding (GMoU) on equipping the rural young people with essential...
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Over the years, agriculture has been considered as a panacea for long-term economic growth as believed by the … agriculture, trade openness and oil rents using annual time frequency series data from 1981- 2017. A series of analysis is … response analysis highlight the existence of one-way causality links running from agriculture to trade and from trade to oil …
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Transforming agriculture from a largely subsistence enterprise to a profitable commercial venture is both a …
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