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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018
With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...
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Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model
Anderson, Kym - 2009
This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price...
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia
Anderson, Kym - 2008
This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases fundamental regime changes, of the past...
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The Role of Agriculture in a Modernizing Society : Food, Farms and Fields in China 2030
Christiaensen, Luc - 2012
China's success in addressing food problems after adopting the reforms in 1978 has been nothing less than remarkable …. Grain output (rice, wheat and maize) has almost doubled and most hunger has been eliminated. Ever since China embarked on …. Agriculture has been an important contributor to these developments. Since 1978, China has almost doubled its cereal production …
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019
World Bank Group - 2019
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic processes that affect farmers in 101 countries. The study covers eight thematic areas: supplying seed, registering fertilizer, securing water, registering machinery, sustaining...
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Zambia Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan : Analyses to Support the Climate-Smart Development of Zambia's Agriculture Sector
World Bank Group - 2019
Zambia's agricultural sector represents the backbone of its rural economy and holds great potential for the entire country. Zambia's agriculture sector faces challenges and is likely to grow more vulnerable as a result of climate change and risk. At the same time, land use, land-use change and...
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Bhutan Policy Note : Harnessing Spatial Opportunities in Agriculture for Economic Transformation
World Bank Group - 2019
the constraints of being a small, landlocked, and mountainous country. Its neighbors, China to the north and India to the ….5 percent of China's. Even surrounded by much larger economies, Bhutan has seen its economy expand rapidly in recent years …
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Republic of Uganda Agriculture Sector Public Expenditure Review
World Bank Group - 2019
The government of Uganda (GoU) regards agriculture as a key economic sector to support Uganda's vision 2040 and the transition to middle-income status. It recognizes that public spending on agriculture has a pivotal role in equipping the sector to fulfil its potential to drive economic growth,...
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Mali Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan
World Bank Group - 2019
This document provides an investment plan for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Mali, developed with support of the AAA Initiative and the World Bank, and technical assistanceof the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, the World Agroforestry Centre and the CGIAR Research Program on...
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Cote d'Ivoire Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan
World Bank Group - 2019
Climate change threatens to bring substantial impacts to Cote d'Ivoire's agriculture sector, which is central to the country's economic productivity and food security. Climate change, of course, poses challenges not only for Cote d'Ivoire but also for countries across Africa. Cote d'Ivoire is a...
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