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This review evaluates the role of the state in development, offering a new framework for understanding what capabilities states need to overcome different types of market failures. This framework is employed to understand the successes and failures of state-led development in Malaysia. The...
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This paper uses panel data on 46 African countries from 2001 to 2014 to estimate the impacts of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated framework of development priorities in Africa, on agricultural expenditure and productivity, income,...
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This paper looks at the prioritization of agricultural value chains (VCs) for the allocation of R&D resources that maximize development outcomes (poverty, growth, jobs, and diets). Considering that growth in VCs affects those various outcomes differently, as expansion pathways result in the...
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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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