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productivity, incomes, and poverty, and compares current conditions in Africa with the conditions that prevailed in Asia as its …. Moreover, many of the same practices that have proved successful in Asia and in Africa can be applied where yields are …Asia's green revolution in rice was transformational and improved the lives of millions of poor households. Rice has …
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For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa have hampered farmers contributions to … time series of country level indexes, as well as Africa-wide aggregates. They also provide annual commodity market indexes …
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Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...
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For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...
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Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be before reforms can be launched? Relying on well timed surveys of agricultural prices and a joint study by the Government of Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market...
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responses to the earlier spike lowered the (negative) nominal assistance coefficient for agriculture by one-third between 1972 …
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Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies' economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade and welfare-reducing effects of...
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Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to …
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agriculture and the process of development. Unfortunately, cross-country data sets on agricultural fixed capital are rare. Using a … fixed capital in agriculture, based on national accounts data. The fixed capital measure differs remarkably from the Food … and Agriculture Organization's data series on tractors, which has been widely utilized as a proxy for agricultural fixed …
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