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Potential Impacts of a Green Revolution in Africa – the Case of Ghana
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Agricultural growth in Africa has accelerated, yet most of this growth has been driven by land expansion. Land expansion potential is reaching its limits, urging governments to shift towards a green revolution type of productivity-led growth. Given the huge public investments required, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913562
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Potential impacts of a green revolution in Africa—the case of Ghana
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; … - In: Journal of International Development 23 (2011) 1, pp. 82-102
Agricultural growth in Africa has accelerated, yet most of this growth has been driven by land expansion. Land expansion potential is reaching its limits, urging governments to shift towards a green revolution type of productivity-led growth. Given the huge public investments required, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774280
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The Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in Vietnam
Thurlow, James; Tarp, Finn; McCoy, Simon; Hai, Ngugyen Manh - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute. We develop a dynamic computable … commodity crisis increased employment and reduced poverty by favouring labour-intensive exports, especially in agriculture. The … people below the US$2-a-day poverty line, with the vast majority of these being rural dwellers. The net effect of the crises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672347
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Agriculture for development in Iraq?: Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 2013–2017 on economic growth, incomes, and gen...
Al-Haboby, Azhr; Breisinger, Clemens; Debowicz, Darío; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper estimates the potential effects of achieving the agricultural goals set out in Iraq’s National Development Plan (NDP) 2013–2017 using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The findings suggest that raising agricultural productivity in accordance with the NDP...
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