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Consensus, Institutions, and Supply Response : The Political Economy of Agricultural Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aksoy, Ataman - 2017

During the late 1980s and the 1990s, most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa implemented agricultural policy reforms, along with national political and economic reforms. The agricultural reforms focused on opening up processing and marketing activities to increased competition and eliminating...

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Public Enterprise Reform : A Challenge for the World Bank

Ruppert, Elizabeth - 2017

Public enterprises (PEs) earn an average 10 percent of GDP in developing countries. Many governments are reexamining the role of the state, so questions about whether to divest PEs or make them more efficient are likely to intensify. The Bank will increasingly be called upon for advice and...

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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from Odesk and India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

This paper examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. The data are taken from oDesk …, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts. Despite oDesk minimizing many of the frictions that diaspora … to choose a worker in India. This higher placement is the result of a greater likelihood of choosing India for the …

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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth : A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …

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

Pursell, Garry - 2017

sugar prices of US 13-15 cents a pound or higher, India's domestic prices were roughly equivalent to, or below, world … in India, declining an average of 0.6 percent (sugar) and 0.3 percent (cane) a year. During the same 29 years the free … market price of sugar fluctuated widely (expressed in India rupees) but in real terms increased about 1.3 percent a year …

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The Price of Empowerment : Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017

This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms extending access to formal, freehold land tenure to...

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Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal's Tenancy Reforms

Deininger, Klaus - 2017

Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal -- which made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on subleasing -- imply that early...

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Can a Market-Assisted Land Redistribution Program Improve the Lives of the Poor? Evidence from Malawi

Datar, Gayatri - 2017

This paper uses a rural household survey dataset collected in 2006 and 2008 to investigate the impact of a market-based land resettlement project in southern Malawi. The program provided a conditional cash and land transfer to poor families to relocate to larger plots of farm land. The average...

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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 …

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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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