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Land and agronomic potential for biofuel production in Southern Africa
Von Maltitz, Graham; Van der Merwe, Marna - 2017
The Southern African region, from a purely biophysical perspective, has huge potential for biofuel production, especially in Mozambique and Zambia. Although many of the soils are sandy and acidic, with careful management and correct fertilization, they should be highly productive. We suggest...
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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 … misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913225
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Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique
Morgado, João; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
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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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges
Vos, Rob - 2018
accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894303
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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam
Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We …
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Identifying structural changes in the exchange rates of South Africa as a regime-switching process
Makatjane, Katleho; Van Wyk, Roscoe Bertrum - 2020
Exchange rate volatility is said to exemplify the economic health of a country. Exchange rate break points (known as structural breaks) have a momentous impact on the macroeconomy of a country. Nonetheless, this country study makes use of both unsupervised and supervised machine learning...
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Time-varying fiscal multipliers for South Africa : a large time-varying parameter vector autoregression approach
Du Rand, Gideon; Hollander, Hylton; Van Lill, Dawie - 2023
A critical requirement for efficient fiscal policy is a reliable understanding of its impact on the aggregate economy for different policy instruments and under different economic conditions. Indeed, there is strong evidence to suggest that fiscal multipliers vary with economic conditions, the...
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Climate change, agriculture, and food security in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Farmer, Will; Strzepek, Ken; Thurlow, James - 2011
The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …. -- climate change ; agriculture ; food security ; crop model ; CGE model ; Tanzania …
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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa
Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582885
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The agro-processing industry and its potential for structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica P. - 2017
The paper explores the potential of Ghana's agro-processing industry in contributing to the development and structural transformation of the economy. Although the industry is not well advanced, a number of factors are discussed which make it a viable sector to lead the economy towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588951