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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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The paper provides the first consistently estimated data set on infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income countries. To do so, the authors identify three possible proxies for infrastructure investments: two are variants on gross fixed capital formation from national accounts system...
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changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on aggregate productivity growth and gross domestic …
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This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure disruptions in 137 low- and middle-income countries, representing 78 percent of the world population and 80 percent of the GDP of low- and -middle-income countries. Specifically, this...
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This review examines the literature on the role of infrastructure in determining the productivity and competitiveness …, water, and telecommunications systems increases firm-level productivity. It also shows that providing infrastructure per se … is not enough to boost productivity, unless it offers reliable service. Disruptions and irregular service have …
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To analyze the effect of an increase in the quantity or quality of public investment on growth, this paper extends the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the former adjusted for its quality. The paper presents...
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Improving access to quality education has been the backbone of several development strategies around the world and considerable public resources have been dedicated to achieving this goal. However, one could wonder whether increasing public education expenditure would drive better access to...
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threshold above which additional inflationary pressures adversely affect economic expansion. It uses cointegration methods that … African Monetary Union and 4.3-4.5 percent in the West African Monetary Union. Homogeneous cointegration panel data analyses …
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Public financial management enablesgovernment to implement policy. Financial management information systems are a central element of PFM in that they facilitate government financial transactions and subject them to rigorous budgetary controls. Therefore, the adequate use of FMIS systems supports...
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