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Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing …, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We …
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Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
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Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration, either because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability; but there is limited evidence on whether and when terminating such programs is efficient. We provide...
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's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited …
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The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which … higher levels of poverty. …
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By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
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With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world …
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By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291445