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This article uses nationally representative household-level panel data from Malawi to estimate how rural population density impacts agricultural intensification and household well-being. We find that areas of higher population density are associated with smaller farm sizes, lower real...
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This study measures how Kenyan farmers and farming systems have responded to changes in population density and associated land pressures. Kenya is a relatively densely populated area, with 40% of its rural people residing on 5% of its rural land. We develop a structural model for estimating the...
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This paper examines impacts of an agricultural subsidy program on forest pressure in Malawi. Using household survey data, we measure the effect on forest product marketing and on forest clearing of Malawi's Starter Pack Scheme (SPS). Regression results show households receiving a free packet of...
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South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The main implication of this situation for sub-Saharan Africa is that improvement in …
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sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we attempt to describe the present state of rural–urban migration from several … and migration policy in Africa. …
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We use the concept of the product space to analyze the key features of the transformation process in Africa with a … diversification of agricultural exports is rather insignificant. Compared to Africa, Brazil appears to have experienced a more … transformation dynamics are heterogeneous, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all strategy to boost the agricultural sector in Africa is …
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Modern economic development is accompanied by the structural transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. Since the 18th century, all countries that industrialized successfully have followed their comparative advantages and leveraged the latecomer advantage, including emerging...
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transformation that deviate from those of developed countries in different ways. Second, the paths of the subcontinents of Africa …
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Dierences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross- country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...
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Africa.s improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from …
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