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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …
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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural …
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Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial … work suggests that mobile money can accelerate urbanization and structural change in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which …
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited …
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agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … from four Sub-Saharan African countries. Around one third of households engage in both agriculture and non … comparative and absolute advantage are negatively correlated - misaligned - in agriculture, casting doubt on the importance of …
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), have been studied relatively less, especially in Africa which remains the most vulnerable continent to CC. We focus on Lake …. For Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Niger - 25% of sub-Saharan Africa's population -, we construct a novel data set tracking …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment … stimulate exports and growth. Under any currency regime, Zimbabwe needs to adhere to sound macroeconomic policies, avoid …
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A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the...
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