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several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) of the African … target public expenditure on the agriculture sector as the most effective way of stimulating growth. The overall purpose of …
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against agriculture and that removing domestic distortions will raise agricultural production. Job losses in nonagricultural … sectors will be outweighed by job creation in agriculture, such that overall employment rises and poverty falls. Overall, the …
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How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...
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emphasises a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains, although evidence for developing … innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is therefore of critical importance to the competitiveness and … innovation in the literature as it improves the capability for developing new products and processes and improving existing ones …
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outlook in the context of global economic prospects. It focuses on the role of innovation in fostering economic growth, job … from this analysis suggest that policies to spur innovation can go a long way in addressing unemployment, poverty and …
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and centralized distribution system. Fruit and vegetable vendors in Bogota currently travel most days to a central market …
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. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
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