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economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a … growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual …
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in Africa are well suited for rice and are encouraged by the field tests of new rice varieties. So is Africa poised for … productivity, incomes, and poverty, and compares current conditions in Africa with the conditions that prevailed in Asia as its … rice revolution got under way. An important conclusion is that, to a degree, a rice revolution has already begun in Africa …
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Subsidized or free distribution of food has been a central pillar of social protection programs in many countries. With the number of forcibly displaced persons at record levels, the question arises of whether in-kind food transfer programs are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced...
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India has pursued an active food security policy for many years, using a combination of trade policy interventions …
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Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large … nearly half of India's population - have the lowest program coverage and the lowest budgetary allocations from the central …
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Agricultural development is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction, yet agricultural data suffer from poor quality and narrow sectoral focus. There are several reasons for this: (i) difficult-to-measure smallholder agriculture is prevalent in poor countries, (ii) agricultural data...
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This paper studies the effects of a large reduction in transport costs on agricultural development in a developing country, with a focus on the interactions among the comparative advantage and transport costs of a location, and the transport intensity and value of a commodity. The paper extends...
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This paper investigates the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. It uses a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression estimator, based on influence functions, to...
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The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...
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