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Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among … and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …
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of the maize seed industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. This summary takes a circumspect view of technical change in maize … Eastern and Southern Africa (outside South Africa), and 60 percent of maize area in West and Central Africa. Use of fertilizer … production. Adoption of improved seed has continued to rise gradually, now representing an estimated 44 percent of maize area in …
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Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers,and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to...
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service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …
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This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … product has dampened rising female headship. However, other subtle transformations occurring across Africa?changes in marriage …
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hurting women?s labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …
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This paper takes stock of the current state of banking systems across Sub-Saharan Africa and discusses recent … developments including innovations that might help Africa leapfrog more traditional banking models. Using an array of different …
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-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of production under complete specialization. It shows that the colonial production …
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Firm productivity is low in African countries, prompting governments to try a number of active policies to improve it. Yet despite the millions of dollars spent on these policies, we are far from a situation where we know whether many of them are yielding the desired payoffs. This paper...
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maize (33 percent on average) and lowest for rice (16? percent). This is two and a half to three times larger than in the … international reference markets. Seasonality varies substantially across market places, but maize is the only crop in which there … are important systematic country effects. Malawi, where maize is the main staple, emerges as exhibiting the most acute …
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