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Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
Divanbeigi, Raian - 2017
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 … measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891121
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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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Measuring the Impact of a Change in the Price of Cashew Received by Exporters on Farmgate Prices and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Cont, Walter - 2017
-Bissau. The analysis builds a theoretical model of supply chains in export agriculture that includes exporters, traders, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972736
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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing - 2017
The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture, both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975006
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How (Not) to Fix Problems that Matter : Assessing and Responding to Malawi's History of Institutional Reform
Bridges, Katherine - 2017
Malawi can be understood as a microcosm of institutional reform approaches in developing countries more broadly. A common feature of such approaches, whether implemented by government or donors, is reform initiatives that yield institutions that "look like" those found in higher-performing...
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Making Up People -- the Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society
Hoff, Karla - 2017
It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional caste order turn out to influence the expression of these...
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2017
The paper examines the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a new cross-country panel dataset on the distribution of income and expenditure. It uses an econometric methodology to gauge whether a larger middle class has a causal effect on policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975330
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976175
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Aid Dependence Reconsidered
Azam, Jean-Paul - 2017
When foreign aid undermines institutional development aid recipients can exhibit the symptoms of aid "dependence" - benefiting from aid in the short term but damaged by it in the long term. The authors find that one equilibrium outcome can be high aid and weak institutions, even when donors and...
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