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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen; Hayat, Faraz - 2014
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital to boosting the demand for labour in Africa. Africa has some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343223
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The theory and practice of agriculture, growth, and development in Africa
Badiane, Ousmane; Makombe, Tsitsi - 2014
Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343227
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How do we increase the share of aid to agriculture in Africa?
Quartey, Peter - 2014
African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343243
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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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Biofuels technology: A look forward
Stafford, William; Lotter, Adrian; Brent, Alan; von … - 2017
This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688573
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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments: Evidence from rural Tanzania
Sipangule, Kacana - 2017
The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688600
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Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Viet Nam agriculture
Brandt, Loren; Ayerst, Stephen; Restuccia, Diego - 2018
We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We use a household-level panel dataset and a quantitative framework to document the extent and consequences of factor misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943919
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Climate change and agricultural productivity in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
Jensen, Henning Tarp; Keogh-Brown, Marcus; Tarp, Finn - 2021
Myanmar is facing climate change (CC) induced changes to the productivity of their critically important rice sector over the coming century. Moreover, the recent five-year Myanmarese Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) sets out a vision of achieving an '…inclusive, competitive, food and...
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PROCEDE: A failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico
De Ita, Ana - 2022
This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform's objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the different actors involved. It delves into the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472611
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The political economy of food price policy: The case study of India
Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok - 2013
India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India's ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of G8 countries' call to avert economic recession, coupled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319856