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Enhancing the productivity of agriculture is vital for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic future and is one of the most … policy environment, better institutions, and investments in rural public goods positively affect agricultural productivity …. These, combined with smarter use of public funds, have helped lay the foundations for agricultural productivity growth …
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laying the foundations f or agricultural productivity growth around the world, providing important lessons for African … agricultural productivity growth. The dividends from investments to strengthen markets, develop and disseminate improved …, and more specifically with public spending programs that aim to improve the productivity of African agriculture …
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ageing population and weak overall productivity growth. However, absolute poverty (estimated using a poverty line defined …
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variable in recent years. Furthermore, sizable gaps persist between achievable and realized productivity in most crops, and …
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Agriculture remains economically and socially important in Vietnam despite agriculture's declining share of gross domestic product (GDP). The share of primary agricultural activity in the GDP has fallen to 13 percent, compared with more than 30 percent two decades ago. The active labor force in...
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recommendations for bringing subsidy costs under control while maintaining broad-based support for farmer productivity and …
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intensities yield much larger reductions in emissions than those targeting overall productivity growth to reduce emissions because …
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In 1990, Australia and New Zealand were ranked around 25th and 37th in terms of Gross National Product (GNP) per capita, having been the highest-income countries in the world one hundred years earlier. Those countries relatively poor economic growth performance over that long period contrasts...
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This working paper summarizes the annual estimates, for each of the world's main high-income countries, of key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al. (2008), and provides some summary statistics for the group's estimates. It begins with tables for the countries of Western Europe,...
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This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the...
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