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clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
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This paper uses the Biennial Review (BR) data and simple correlations to analyze the potential relationship between progress in recommitting to CAADP or mutual accountability and progress in meeting commitments in the other five broad areas. Various weighting systems are used to demonstrate the...
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agriculture. To this end, heads of state in Africa rallied to form the pan-African Comprehensive African Agriculture Development … agriculture alone is not enough. Policy can play an important role not only to make public investment more efficient, but also is … crucial for incentivizing private sector and farmer investment in agriculture. Against this backdrop this paper takes stock of …
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Public expenditure in agriculture is one of the most important policy instruments for government in developing … public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the …
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transformation of its economy all at the same time without a big increase in urban manufacturing. Agriculture was a critical part of … this transformation through two important channels. First, export-oriented agriculture, particularly palm oil and rubber … the macro economy. Second, through the release of workers from low productivity agriculture to more productive …
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This paper conducts a political economy analysis to understand the factors that affect provision of and access to reliable agricultural statistics and data systems in Niger. A conceptual framework that identifies selected political economy aspects including political will, transparency and...
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dimensions — population growth, constrained natural resources, and climate change. The latest Food and Agriculture Organization …
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relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
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Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how...
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's empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is …
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