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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619927
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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio-Rodarte, Israel - 2013
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured … products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana … challenge for Ghana is to facilitate a comprehensive package of sector specific polices dedicated to fostering the technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157006
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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured … products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana … challenge for Ghana is to facilitate a comprehensive package of sector specific polices dedicated to fostering the technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472219
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Wealthiest Is Not Always Healthiest: What Explains Differences in Child Mortality in West Africa?
Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ghana has the lowest under-five mortality rate in West Africa. Understanding why Ghana’s child mortality rate is lower … health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … examine relative child mortality risk between Ghana and each of its three immediate neighbors -- Burkina Faso, Côte d …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108728
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Pro-Girl Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation in the Rural Philippines: Revisiting the ‘adult goods’ approach
Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper detects pro-girl (age 5-15) bias in intrahousehold allocation of consumption budget in the rural Philippines using Deaton’s “adult goods” method. Based on additional checks (including those for endogeneity), the results appear to be robust. The paper also finds that a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258495
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Trade and agricultural policies in Malawi: Not all policy reform is equally good for the poor
Douillet, Mathilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The reduction of the existing global distortions to agricultural incentives is sometimes stated as a priority to fight poverty worldwide. But the impacts of global trade policy and domestic development policy reforms are rarely, if ever, compared. Despite technical limitations hindering rigorous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258811
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Globalization, structural adjustment and african agriculture: analysis and evidence
Bryceson, Deborah; Sarkar, Prabirjit; Fennell, Shailaja; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
A major purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of poor governance or ‘state fragility’ in African countries on their overall economic and agrarian performance. The results of our econometric analysis show that a higher level of public security is conducive to lower levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259568
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Globalisation, structural adjustment and african agriculture: analysis and evidence
Bryceson, Deborah; Sarkar, Prabirjit; Fennel, Shailaja; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
A major purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of poor governance or ‘state fragility’ in African countries on their overall economic and agrarian performance. The results of our econometric analysis show that a higher level of public security is conducive to lower levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260274
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Chad: rural policy note
Loening, Josef L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The Chad Rural Policy Note builds on the findings of a rural sector stocktaking exercise. An initial draft of the note was prepared as a just-in-time study designed to contribute to the preparation of the Chad Interim Strategy Note. This finalized version of the note intended mainly to establish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294929
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Diversity of the rural farming households and policy issues: an analysis based on a case study in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa
Anseeuw, Ward; Laurent, Catherine; Modiselle, Salome; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The transition from apartheid to integrated development is a contradictory process characterised by negotiations between an intervention and a market-driven liberal approach. Regarding agriculture, it was expected that a highly efficient and economically viable market-directed farming sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727896