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Agriculture in African Development: A Review of Theories and Strategies
Dercon, Stefan; Gollin, Douglas - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
Agriculture is the largest sector in most sub-Saharan economies in terms of employment, and it plays an important role in supplying food and export earnings.  Rural poverty rates remain high, and labor productivity is strikingly low.  This paper asks how these factors shape the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159035
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Agriculture in African Development: Theories and Strategies
Dercon, Stefan; Gollin, Douglas - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 471-492
Agriculture is the largest sector in most sub-Saharan economies in terms of employment, and it plays an important role in supplying food and export earnings. Rural poverty rates remain high, and labor productivity is strikingly low. This article asks how these factors shape the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951573
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Agriculture in African Development: A Review of Theories and Strategies
Dercon, Stefan; Gollin, Douglas - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014
Agriculture is the largest sector in most sub-Saharan economies in terms of employment, and it plays an important role in supplying food and export earnings. Rural poverty rates remain high, and labor productivity is strikingly low. This paper asks how these factors shape the role of agriculture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783883
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Rural poverty: old challenges in new contexts
Dercon, Stefan - In: The World Bank research observer 24 (2009) 1, pp. 1-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848440
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Land Rights, Power and Trees in Rural Ethiopia
Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2007
, in particular related to land, are of crucial importance for investment and growth. In Ethiopia , with all land state …-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far from the agenda. A constitutional reform in 1996 has promised long …-term user rights, and land rental and leasing have been made legal, but land rights remain restricted and the perception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642368
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Land Rights, Power and Trees in Rural Ethiopia
Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
, in particular related to land, are of crucial importance for investment and growth. In Ethiopia, with all land state …-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. A constitutional reform in 1996 has promised long …-term user rights, and land rental and leasing have been made legal, but land rights remain restricted and the perception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605170
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In sickness and in health ... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia
Dercon, Stefan; Krishnan, Pramila - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000642993
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Demobilisation and reintegration of ex-soldiers in Ethopia
Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000644012
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Prices, local measurement units and subsistence consumption in rural surveys : an econometric approach with an application to Ethiopia
Capéau, Bart (contributor); Dercon, Stefan (contributor) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000990817