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Learning from China? : Manufacturing, Investment, and Technology Transfer in Nigeria
Chen, Yunnan - 2016
The question of how to promote structural transformation is central in fostering sustainable growth and poverty reduction in low-income countries in Africa. Following China's domestic economic transformation and its growing outward investments in the developing world, we seek to understand how...
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Chinese Investment in Ghana's Manufacturing Sector
Tang, Xiaoyang - 2017
This paper uses Ghana as a case study to illustrate the extent to which Chinese manufacturing firms are driving manufacturing in an African country. Through a combination of desktop and field research, the author finds that the total number of Chinese manufacturing investments in Ghana indeed...
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How Headquarters Relocation Is Affected by Rising Wages and Ownership : Evidence from China's Annual Survey of Industrial Enterprises, 1999–2008
Wang, Qingtao - 2017
Industrial wages have increased significantly in China in recent years. At the same time, there have been widening gaps in wages across provinces. These trends are likely to prompt company headquarters to relocate. The relocation choices of headquarters are likely to change under different...
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Roads to Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from China
Wang, Xu - 2016
Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country's economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examines the impact of road density on firm innovation in China using a matched patent database at the...
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Economic Growth, Convergence and Agricultural Economics
Martin, Will J. - 2019
After nearly two centuries of lagging behind the industrial countries, growth in many developing countries has surged since the early 1990s. This outperformance has major implications for almost all areas of agricultural economics and, if continued, will likely do so into the future. This paper...
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Changing Composition of Private Investment in Indian Agriculture and Its Relationship With Public Investment and Input Subsidies
Kumar, Anjani - 2020
assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of … growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and … formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in …
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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture and Dietary Quality Across the Life Course : Evidence from Bangladesh
Sraboni, Esha - 2018
's empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is …
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Migration, Labor, and Women’s Empowerment : Evidence From an Agricultural Value Chain in Bangladesh
de Brauw, Alan - 2020
As a substantial portion of the rural labor force migrates to urban areas, it is commonly assumed that women could take over traditionally male tasks in agricultural production, with potentially empowering outcomes for women. We study how changes in the supply of labor may influence female labor...
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Agriculture and Youth in Nigeria : Aspirations, Challenges, Constraints, and Resilience
ElDidi, Hagar - 2020
Nigeria's rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector …, inputs and equipment to support young farmers who cannot leave the agriculture sector. A promising factor is that many young … men and women realize the importance of agriculture and aspire to become successful in the sector …
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Agricultural Productivity, Inter-Sectoral Labor Shift, and Economic Growth in India
SJ, Balaji - 2020
In this paper, we study the transformation process Indian agriculture exhibited in the recent past, studying its policy … implications. Between the years 2005-06 and 2015-16, more than 52 million workers left agriculture, which did not have any effect … structural change in agriculture to national productivity growth during 1981-2016. We estimate differentials in agricultural …
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