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This study analyzes impacts of large, one-time cash transfers and farm management plans among farmers in Senegal …
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sector. The Poverty Monitoring Survey carried out in Senegal in 2011 is used to build the economic accounts for agriculture …, which identify a value added of 581 billion CFA francs generated by Senegal's farm households, representing 60 percent of …
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Health-related incentives to reward effort or commitment are commonplace in many professional contracts throughout the world. Typically absent from small-scale agriculture in poor countries, such incentives may help overcome both health issues for remote rural families and supply issues for...
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Groundnuts are the most common cash crop and the main source of income for farmers in Senegal. Previously marginal …, groundnut exports surged between 2011 and 2013. This new dynamic motivated the Government of Senegal to introduce a tax on … groundnut exports in 2017. Senegal is a price-taker in the international groundnut market. Thus, the ex-ante simulation of the …
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policy decisions in Senegal. The last SAM was published in 2006 and the availability of both macro and micro databases for … 2011 is timely for an update. This document describes the construction of a SAM for Senegal. The SAM is based upon 2011 … finance statistics, and the balance of payments — into one consistent framework. Second, the second Senegal Poverty Monitoring …
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launched in 2002 and were expected be completed by the end of 2007. Nevertheless, many African countries, including Senegal did … Senegal's economy, which currently enjoys relatively good access to European market (but also to the U.S. through the African … high level of public receipts there. Finally this kind of reform could lead to trade diversion in Senegal while creating …
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Coordination failures are at the heart of development traps. Although communication can reduce such failures, to date experimental evidence has primarily been lab based. This paper studies the impact of communication in stag hunt coordination games played by members of Senegalese farmer groups...
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respect to agricultural R&D knowledge stocks, to discuss the VC priority allocations of R&D resources in Senegal. Results … scale) indicate that R&D investments for maximizing development objectives can be most effective in Senegal’s VCs for …
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This study examines transportation alternatives for moving cereals into position for storage under the West African Food Security Regional Reserve agreed to by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in 2013, for which cereals were first procured in 2017. It describes the...
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whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare …
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