Showing 1 - 10 of 77
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910846
While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. In order to inform gender targeting of rural finance policy, this paper investigates which financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136962
Annual data on Kenya from 1950 to 2014 are used to analyze the determinants of the level and composition of government expenditures and estimate the agricultural-output returns to the different types of government expenditures. The paper analyzes expenditures for six functions (general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108522
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088813
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964305
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964306
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959426
(Masara and Akate) and a number of smaller and more flexible CF schemes in a remote region in Ghana (Upper West). Results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959461
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960803
harmonization of the roles of policy actors and players. Applying the framework to Ghana, we map and analyze the organizational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961921