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-made tourist attractions and diversified agroecological advantage, Ethiopia is particularly well positioned to exploit the … opportunities in industries without smokestacks. This study takes the case of Ethiopia and examines the current state and … horticulture and tourism industries, given the huge unexploited potential of these sectors in Ethiopia. …
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This paper examines the determinants and implied economic impacts of climate change adaptation strategies in the context of traditional pastoralism. It is based on a household level survey in southern Ethiopian rangelands. Pastoralists' perception of climate change in the region is found to be...
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structural transformation that Ethiopia has shown in the last decade, including a continuous decline in the role of agriculture …Ethiopia has experienced rapid economic growth since 2005. Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of … interventions in the agriculture sector have made important contributions to GDP growth. This growth has been accompanied by a …
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returns from African agriculture and for increasing its overall exports. Policy reforms such as reductions in the tariff … Africa and beyond would all further stimulate exports of processed agriculture. While essential, expansion of these exports …
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focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African … governments are often provided conflicting recommendations on the importance of rural agriculture or urban industry. We develop … dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and …
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Ethiopia is powering ahead with an ambitious energy development strategy, highly reliant on abundant hydropower … reducing vulnerability to variability. -- Ethiopia ; energy development ; hydropower ; climate change ; economics …
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This study links a multi-sectoral regionalized dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Ethiopia with a system … change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded policy-driven adaptation investments Ethiopia's GDP in the 2040s …
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Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The … to prevent potential social unrest and maintain macro-economic stability. -- agriculture ; political economy ; food price … ; Ethiopia …
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We use census panel data on Ethiopian manufacturing firms to analyze the connections between enterprise agglomeration, firm-level output prices and physical productivity. We find a negative and statistically significant relationship between the agglomeration of firms that produce a given product...
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. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …
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