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The challenges to meeting the growing global food demand — population and income growth and supply uncertainties complicated by climate change, environmental pressures, and water scarcity — all point to the increasing importance of trade and the need for a more, not less, open trading...
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We consider a general equilibrium model of international trade with two identical countries, two commodities, a terms-of-trade externality, and two layers of informational asymmetries. First, domestic producers have private information on their technology. Such within-country informational...
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The cocoa sector in Ghana is one of few examples of an export commodity sector in an African country that has withstood … Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the current institutional arrangement is able to pass on a significant share of export prices … to farmers, a key objective of the liberalization of commodity markets in Africa. As Ghana continues to capitalize on its …
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assessment of feed millers in Ghana. The findings establish the importance of feed in the poultry value chain. In addition, they … the short term would be nearly impossible. For the egg industry, however, there is potential for Ghana to export to …
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This paper uses Ghana as a case study to illustrate the extent to which Chinese manufacturing firms are driving … Chinese manufacturing investments in Ghana indeed increased during past decade, but quite a few projects have been abandoned … Chinese investors establish themselves in Ghana. Chinese firms source simple raw materials from local suppliers but import …
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(Masara and Akate) and a number of smaller and more flexible CF schemes in a remote region in Ghana (Upper West). Results show …
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of Ghana and proxy means test approaches. Past fertilizer subsidy programs in the country have not been particularly … outreach and cost effectiveness of Ghana's fertilizer subsidy programs. Therefore, we propose that the proxy means test … approach should be considered for implementing Ghana's fertilizer subsidy programs, first in a pilot project involving a few …
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harmonization of the roles of policy actors and players. Applying the framework to Ghana, we map and analyze the organizational …
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This paper uses data from a sample of 679 food processing firms in Ghana to estimate changes in employment by the food …
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