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accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …
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We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …
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Although agriculture is important for the livelihood of most Africans, especially the poor, donors did not accord it a … high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …
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used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist … developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …
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agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved … shifting roles of industry vs. agriculture and that of government, and the public sector vs. markets and the private sector …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …
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In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per...
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This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We …
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procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … inequality in urban India is mostly due to rising inequality within urban blocks. Neither rural inequality nor its local and …
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India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …
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both food security and agriculture prevailed. But a long-run trend of declining foreign assistance to agriculture appears …
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