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The traditional location theory predicts that firms' locational choice is independent of the output demand. However, firms are often concentrated in large markets. In Africa, agrobusinesses are expected to play an important role to facilitate agricultural growth but are hardly available in rural...
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The literature suggests a wide range of impacts of improved transport connectivity on agricultural growth. Still, the infrastructure-growth nexus remains somewhat mysterious, particularly in the African context, because many rural farmers do not have their own transport means. Using data from...
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This paper investigates the link between export survival of agri-food products and financial development. It tests the hypothesis that financial development differentially affects the survival of exports across products based on their need of external finance. The authors test whether exports of...
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The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and inequality, providing food security, and delivering...
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Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
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-for-performance scheme that rewarded community health worker cooperatives for the utilization of five targeted maternal and child health …
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management in developing countries. The use of property rights among fishing cooperatives operating in Mexico's Gulf of … fishing cooperatives' management choices are shaped by the presence of property rights, the mobility of resources, and … empirically tested using three years of daily logbook data on prices and catches for three cooperatives from the Gulf of …
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Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. The authors introduce types of theories of...
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What are the current trends and main characteristics of public education spending in Indonesia? Is education spending … insufficient? Are expenditures in education efficient and equitable? This study reports the first account of Indonesia's aggregated … education enrollment. It concludes that the current challenges in Indonesia are no longer defined by the need of additional …
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begins with a review of the accomplishments and remaining nutrition challenges for Indonesia. It then turns to look at the … regional diversity in Indonesia's nutrition challenges and asks which type of nutrition programs are most cost-effective. The … steps Indonesia can take to further improve population nutrition and health. The annexes provide extensive data and analysis …
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