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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa

Yusuf, Shahid - 2018

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, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual …

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Tariff-Based Commodity Price Stabilization Schemes in Venezuela

Schady, Norbert - 2017

Venezuelaamp;apos;s agricultural sector is heavily regulated and protected. As part of structural adjustment, the government is considering major reform of its agricultural trade policies. The strategy is to introduce competition into the economy by removing government price controls and...

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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects

Anderson, Kym - 2016

Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low-income countries are depressed partly due to a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, and partly because richer countries (including some developing countries) favor their farmers with import...

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The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access

Anderson, Kym - 2015

The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, the authors first compare the OECD and...

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Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure

Dillon, Brian - 2020

data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of land and labor market …

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The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia

Dizon, Felipe Jr Fadullon - 2019

Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...

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Trade Policies and Incentives in Indian Agriculture : Methodology, Background Statistics, and Protection and Incentive Indicators, 1965-95

Pursell, Garry - 2017

This paper is the first in a series of studies to provide background data and protection and incentive indicators for 13 major Indian crops, which have been estimated in connection with extensive research on Indian agricultural incentives. The general methodology of the studies is described in...

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Agricultural Intensification : The Status in Six African Countries

Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P - 2017

extensive body of evidence that summarizes or tests the hypothesis in Africa and often found it confirmed. However, in the past …

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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

In 1959, shortly after the European Economic Community was founded under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Turkey applied for Associate Membership in the then six-member common market. By 1963, a path for integrating the economies of Turkey and the eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many...

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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym - 2017

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...

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