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In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder …
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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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Trees on farms are often overlooked in agricultural and natural resource research and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa … prevalence, economic contribution and determinants of trees on farms in Africa lay the basis for exploring the interaction of …
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As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...
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supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …
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the structure of housing finance in Africa, its determinants, and its impact on inclusive growth. The findings show that … of demand and supply. In addition, the analysis finds that housing finance development in Africa is not yet an effective … housing finance and greater economic development in Africa. All these findings suggest that policies to boost housing finance …
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Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...
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This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, the authors...
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In the 1980's the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more...
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While the economic returns to using chemical fertilizer in Africa can be large, application rates are low. This study … that while fertilizer markets are not altogether missing in rural Ethiopia, high transport costs, unfavorable climate … promote or impede effective fertilizer markets differs among locations, making it difficult to find a single production …
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