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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Mason, Nicole; … - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401632
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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322481
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The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270264
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401794
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Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in … other complementary inputs that were not directly targeted by the intervention, unlike fertilizer. These results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180006
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Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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/10010788945
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123401
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013
Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329184
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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: An application to occupational allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - 2012
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
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Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322535