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Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : Market Structure, Farm Constraints and Grass-root Institutions
Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas - 2017
. This book will appeal to scholars and policy makers seeking instruments to promote increased agriculture productivity … increase productivity and break out of a vicious cycle in which low productivity exacerbates vulnerability to poverty. In a … Constraints -- Part II: The Role of Non Market Institutions in Sub Saharan Agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397470
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International Competitiveness in Africa : Policy Implications in the Sub-Saharan Region
Razafimahefa, Ivohasina Fizara - 2007
policy and productivity-related policy. … Sub-Saharan African economies: exchange rate policy and productivity-related policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520689
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Development economics : the role of agriculture in development
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2016
economics for more than four decades. He has contributed important work from factor markets and agriculture, to the dynamics of … development from the perspective of social justice and economic effi ciency, exploring the role of land tenure and productivity in … Indian agriculture. Junankar provides a critique of neoclassical economics that assumes farmers maximize profits in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397620
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Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture : Volume 1: Quantitative Investigations on Production Structure
Kuroda, Yoshimi - 2013
Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity … of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054321
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Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture : Volume 2: Impacts of Policy Measures
Kuroda, Yoshimi - 2013
Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity … of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054322
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Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic Perspective
Lawrence, Peter (ed.); Thirtle, Colin (ed.) - 2001
This invaluable collection compares the relatively unsuccessful economic development of Subsaharan Africa with that of the successful Asian economies, especially the Asian 'tigers'. It covers three main areas of comparison: the lessons for Africa from the Asian experience; secondly, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054347
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Digitalization in Open Economies : Theory and Policy Implications
Vogelsang, Michael - 2010
Characteristics of the Digital Economy -- Digitalization -- Economic Theory -- Theoretical Foundations -- Networks in a Fragmentation Model -- IT Services in a General Equilibrium Macro-Model -- Model: Entry of a Digital Goods Producer -- Comparison of the Models -- Economic Policy -- General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013522801
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The World’s Largest Humanitarian Agency : The Transformation of the UN World Food Programme and of Food Aid
Shaw, D. John - 2011
This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053951
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World Food Security : A History since 1945
Shaw, D. John - 2007
This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054180
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The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid
Shaw, D. John - 2001
This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System. It tells the story of the antecedents and origins of WFP and growth from modest beginnings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to become the main source of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054348