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Trading out of Poverty: WTO Agreements and the West African Agriculture. A Report of the Food Security II Cooperative Agreement
Nouve, Kofi; Staatz, John M.; Schweikhardt, David B.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002
This report is a brief survey of WTO agreements and their implications for the West African economies (including Chad). The study reviews the positions of West African countries on various WTO issues and compares these positions with positions expressed by major trade partners, particularly the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543618
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Factors Associated with Farm Households’ Movement Into and Out of Poverty in Kenya: The Rising Importance of Livestock.
Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Freeman, H. Ade; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
This study explores the dynamics of poverty in Kenya. The study specifically examines how initial conditions, household … decisions, and other factors that may change over time affect poverty. Dynamic relationships are identified between behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555515
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Spatial Disadvantages or Spatial Poverty Traps: Household Evidence from Rural Kenya.
Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood … of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted … those households found to have risen from poverty (starting in the bottom tercile and ending in the top tercile, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555527
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Opportunities to Improve Household Food Security Through Promoting Informal Maize Marketing Channels: Experience from Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Traub, Lulama Ndibongo; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006
Maize meal is a staple food in South Africa, particularly among the poor. The South African government by the mid-1980s enacted a series of legislations aimed at reducing the role of government within the market and placing increasing reliance on market forces and the private sector. Ex post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555535
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Agricultural R&D and Economic Growth
Dinopoulos, Elias - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1996
The paper develops a dynamic general-equilibrium model of Schumpeterian growth which is fueled by industrial and … model is used to calculate the steady-state equilibrium and the growth-maximizing mix of agricultural and industrial R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008499785
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Südafrika im Jahr 2001: Noch stabil trotz regionaler Turbulenzen
Halbach, Axel J. - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 54 (2001) 14, pp. 15-22
reale Wirtschaftswachstum seit 1996 realisieren, eine Folge günstiger Entwicklung in der Landwirtschaft, der verarbeitenden … - 1,9% im Vorjahr und - 3,7% in 1998. Die Inflation stieg auf 7,8% (nach 6,9% in 1999), so dass die Armut im Land kaum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014351
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Südafrika und Namibia im Schatten wirtschaftlicher Stagnation
Halbach, Axel J. - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 44 (1991) 07, pp. 16-20
Südafrika und Afrikas jüngster Staat Namibia bilden auch heute - knapp ein Jahr nach der politischen Trennung - noch ein wirtschaftlich eng miteinander verflochtenes und - aus der Sicht Namibias - von der Situation des ehemaligen Partners stark beeinflußtes Staatenpaar, das zudem in sehr...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055810
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Income and Poverty Impacts of USAID-Funded Programs to Promote Maize, Horticulture, and Dairy Enterprises in Kenya, 2004-2010
Smale, Melinda; Mathenge, Mary K.; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
Since 2002, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funded programs to promote maize, dairy, and horticulture enterprises among smallholder farmers in Kenya under the Strategic Objective 7 of Increased Rural Household Incomes. On behalf of USAID, Tegemeo Institute has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878901
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Poverty, AIDS, Orphanhood, Gender, and Child Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Evidence
Mather, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
poverty. In response, some have called for targeted schooling subsidies for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391817
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Promouvoir les échanges commerciaux pour réduire la pauvreté : les accords de l’ OMC et l’agriculture en Afrique de l’ Ouest. Un rapport de l’ Accord de Coopération no. II sur la s...
Nouve, Kofi; Staatz, John M.; Schweikhardt, David B.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002
Ce rapport est une vue d’ensemble sommaire des accords commerciaux de l’ OMC et de leurs implications pour les pays de l’ Afrique de l’ Ouest (ainsi que le Tchad). L’étude décrit les positions adoptées par les pays de l’ Afrique de l’ Ouest sur divers enjeux des négociations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543632