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The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction - an Empirical Perspective

Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2016

as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely … to be smaller than that of non-agriculture (though not because of inherently inferior productivity growth), the indirect …

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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

Havlík, Petr - 2017

This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...

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Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the...

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Controlling Tropical Deforestation : An Analysis of Alternative Policies

Glewwe, Paul - 2017

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How Integrated are Tropical Timber Markets?

Padoan, Pier Carlo - 2017

The tropical timber market is characterized by multiple species, multiple products, and regional patterns of trade and production. In such a market, finding a representative price is a difficult and perhaps an irrelevant task. So Varangis conducted tests to see whether prices from different...

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Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Proposal to Overcome the Problem

Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; Molini, Vasco; … - 2022

In Africa, evidence on the interactions among poverty, growth, and income distribution presents a puzzle: While growth has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has dampened the pro-poor effects of growth. However, when...

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Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Claudia - 2017

serve local demand, but are not indicative of commercial agriculture that serves external markets …

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The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality Among All Africans

Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017

This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of consumption expenditure among individuals during 1993 to 2008. The analysis puts the disparities in living standards that exist among persons in Africa into context with the disparities...

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Debt Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa : Unraveling Country-Specific Risks

Battaile, William G. - 2017

Sub-Saharan African countries as a group showed a considerable reduction in public and external indebtedness in the early 2000s as a result of debt relief programs, higher economic growth, and improved fiscal management for some countries. More recently, however, vulnerabilities in some...

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Food Prices, Road Infrastructure, and Market Integration in Central and Eastern Africa

Brenton, Paul - 2017

Market integration is key to ensuring sufficient and stable food supplies. This paper assesses the impediments to market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food staples: maize, rice, and sorghum. The paper uses a large database on monthly consumer prices for 150 towns in 13...

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