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Vietnam : Connecting Value Chains for Trade Competitiveness
Pham, Duc Minh - 2019
Vietnam's export-led growth strategy and global integration are among the key factors behind thecountry's remarkable … achievements in growth and poverty reduction over the last two and a halfdecades. During this period, Vietnam's per capita income … increased nearly fourfold and povertywas reduced from around 53 percent in 1992 to 2 percent in 2016. Vietnam has become one of …
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Getting the (gender-disaggregated) lay of the land : impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights
Kilic, Talip; Moylan, Heather; Koolwal, Gayatri - 2020
Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents who provide the required individual-disaggregated data. Leveraging two national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, this study shows...
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Leveraging the Rice Value Chain for Poverty Reduction in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar
World Bank Group - 2016
advanced neighbors, Thailand and Vietnam, but their rice sector potential is still largely underutilized. They adopt slightly …, while Thailand and Vietnam are the peers used for comparison and experience-sharing throughout the report. This report …
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Commercialization of Rice and Vegetables Value Chains in Lao PDR : Status and Prospects
World Bank Group - 2018
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Myanmar Rice and Pulses : Farm Production Economics and Value Chain Dynamics
World Bank Group - 2019
Agriculture continues to play a very important role in Myanmar's economy. For many years, understanding the dynamics and performance of Myanmar's agriculture has been difficult due to the absence of reliable, up-to-date data, at sectoral, sub-sectoral, or microeconomic level. During the past...
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Crop yield convergence across districts in India's poorest state
Sinha, Rishabh - 2020
Bihar, India's poorest state, witnessed impressive yield growth in each of its three principal crops over 2005-17. This paper examines whether a convergence in district yields accompanied the improvement in yields at the state level, thereby reducing regional inequalities in land productivity....
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Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
Ali, Daniel - 2017
Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labor market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and...
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Guyana Rice Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2011
This report is the outcome of assessment and is intended as an advisory note to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to enable them to identify a strategy and potential public investments to improve current risk-management practices in the rice supply chain....
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Raskin Subsidized Rice Delivery
World Bank - 2012
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Lao People's Democratic Republic Responding to Rice Price Inflation
World Bank - 2011
The objective of this policy note is to identify likely factors driving rice prices and suggest options to manage rice price volatility in the future. It also provides a snapshot of recent developments in the rice sector, and describes rice and food price trends and their implications. Based on...
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