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Foreign assistance and the food crisis of 2007 - 08
Abbott, Philip - 2012
Dramatically increased international agricultural commodity prices from 2007 to mid-2008 brought food inflation and greater incidence of poverty and malnutrition to developing countries. Higher food prices in 2011 threaten to repeat that crisis. The international community responded strongly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319859
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International co-operation for agricultural development and food and nutrition security: New institutional arrangements for related public goods
von Braun, Joachim - 2013
Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319864
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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010
Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280240
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US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12
Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013
Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable portion of economic activity. We demonstrate how US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319827
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Dealing with the 2007/08 global food price crisis: The political economy of food price policy in Malawi
Chirwa, Ephraim; Chinsinga, Blessings - 2013
The paper examines the underlying political economy motivations of the government's policy responses to food price increases in 2007/08 focusing particularly on maize as the main staple crop. The main government policy responses to the food price spikes in 2007/08 were price control, bans on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319850
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Helping poor farmers to help themselves: Evidence from a group-based aid project in Mozambique
Nyyssölä, Milla; Pirttilä, Jukka; Sandström, Susanna - 2012
This paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique. We examine the impact of a group-based approach, in a country with few impact evaluations of technology adoption in farming. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319928
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The political economy of food price policy: The case of Zambia
Chapoto, Antony - 2012
The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319939
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Should Africa industrialize?
Page, John - 2011
Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330121
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The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: Insights from multivariate time series analysis
Juselius, Katarina; Framroze Møller, Niels; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Studies of aid effectiveness abound in the literature, often with opposing conclusions. Since most time-series studies use data from the exact same publicly available data bases, our claim here is that such differences in results must be due to the use of different econometric models and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280113
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The global financial crisis and development: Whither Africa?
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2010
The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280127