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efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda … insecurity affect household investment decisions, focusing on trees and shrubs. The panel data estimates suggest that limited … perceived transfer rights, and the threat of expropriation, negatively affect long-term investment in Ethiopian agriculture …
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The author examines empirically the link between real exchange rate uncertainty and private investment in developing … finds that it has a strong negative impact on investment, after controlling for other standard investment determinants and … real exchange rate uncertainty on investment is significantly larger in economies that are highly open and in those with …
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The authors conduct an empirical study on the effect of the accumulation of pension fund financial assets, on national saving, using a panel of 43 industrial, and developing countries. The authors find evidence suggesting that the accumulation of pension fund financial assets might increase...
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The Government of China has placed strong emphasis on addressing problems related to agriculture, farmers, and rural society, with the development of a "new socialist countryside" designated as a top priority for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). The financing of public services in rural...
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This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes. Findings show that the poor allocate a lower share of their labor to farm sectors than the nonpoor do, but still around 70 percent work in agriculture, and the vast majority of...
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In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often...
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Lack of sanitation and poor hygiene behavior cause a tremendous disease burden among the poor. This paper evaluates the impact of the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing project in Indonesia, where about 11 percent of children have diarrhea in any two-week period and more than 33,000...
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vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …
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years, however, domestic investment, while stagnant in real terms, has shrunk as a share of GDP. In an open and growing … economy, why the decline? Three reasons explain the puzzle. First, the public sector cannot afford expanding its investment at … GDP growth rates. Second, the capital-intensive private sector does not find it convenient to raise investment at the …
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, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of …
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