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While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is … Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program. We show that the implementation of this program …
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Ethiopia has experienced rapid economic growth since 2005. Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of 10.5 per cent per annum for the period between 2004-05 and 2013-14. Public investment in key infrastructure and interventions in the agriculture sector have made important...
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Thailand's development strategy has been strongly market-oriented and open to trade and investment flows with the rest …
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shape the landscape of development co-operation. …
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This paper outlines the contours of global economic development, since 1980, to analyse underlying factors and consider …, manufacturing and trade, is striking. But development, driven by rapid economic growth, has been most uneven. It is concentrated in … institutions and supportive governments - suggest lessons for latecomers. Their experience shows that there are alternative paths …
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Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost revenues by other sources of taxation has been highly uneven...
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the national economy of South Africa via a number of (but not necessarily all) impact channels. The study focuses on outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple...
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. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan …, the ultimate failure to establish strong institutions in South Vietnam calls for a closer analysis of how differing …
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universities and the infrastructure for higher education in forestry, agriculture, and rural development, is important in the long …
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