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, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion?s share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
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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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on Agriculture. In addition, the paper (i) develops internationally comparable measures of overall agro-ecological crop …
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This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative …
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Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …
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To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
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This paper analyzes the trends and evolution of public spending in the agriculture sector in Indonesia, as well as the …, public spending on agriculture and irrigation during the period 1976-2006 had a positive impact on agricultural growth, while … past decade can partly explain why significant increases in public spending for agriculture have not resulted in a …
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How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically … official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture could generate, contrary to traditional Dutch disease concerns, an …
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many trade agreements, agriculture posed difficult political hurdles, which … agriculture sector. An applied general equilibrium framework is used to provide estimates of what including agriculture under the …
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