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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

transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a …

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Local Impacts of a Global Crisis - Food Price Transmission and Poverty Impacts in Ghana

Cudjoe, Godsway; Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen - 2009

This paper takes a local perspective on global food price shocks by analyzing food price transmission between regional markets in Ghana. It also assesses the impacts of food price increases on various household groups. Taking the recent global food crisis as an example, we find that prices for...

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Leveraging regional growth dynamics in African agriculture

Abdulai, Awudu; Johnson, Michael; Diao, Xinshen - 2006

This study focuses on public investments and policy reforms for leveraging growth spillovers at the Africaregional level. It reviews first the theory and evidence of knowledge and growth spillovers generally andsecond the evidence in the African context. Given the limited and scattered evidence...

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INTERNATIONAL SPILLOVERS, PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND OPENNESS IN THAILAND: AN INTERTEMPORAL GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS

Diao, Xinshen; Rattso, Jorn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2002

Thailand has experienced economic growth well above world averages for about 40years. It is a challenge to understand the sources of this high growth path, and inparticular why growth has not slowed down with assumed decreasing returns to capital.We develop an intertemporal general equilibrium...

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Cross-Commodity Analysis of China's Grain Sector: Sources of Growth and Supply Response

Colby, Hunter; Diao, Xinshen; Somwaru, Agapi - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2000

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STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION: THE COSTS OF KOREAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY 1975 AND 1990

Diao, Xinshen; Dyck, John H.; Lee, Chinkook; Skully, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

The economic development of South Korea is often held up as a model to be followed by many developing countries. We use 1975 and 1990 data in a general equilibrium framework with highly disaggregated agricultural sector specification to evaluate the opportunity cost of agricultural protection....

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Dynamics of Structural Transformation: Understanding the Key Factors That Drive Innovative Activities in Selected Asian and African Countries

Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba; Diao, Xinshen; Roe, Terry L.; … - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 2008

This paper develops a metric of structural transformation that can account for the production of new varieties of goods embodying advancements in technological know-how and design. Our measure captures the dynamics of an economy’s transformation and can be viewed as an extension of the static...

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A Dynamic CGE Model of R&D Based Growth in the U.S. Economy: An Experiment Using the New Growth Theory

Diao, Xinshen; Roe, Terry L. - International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC - 1996

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Promoting Sustainable Pro-Poor Growth in Rwandan Agriculture: What are the Policy Options?

Morris, Michael L.; Drake, Liz; Ezemenari, Kene; Diao, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

term were to be the agriculture and manufacturing sectors, with agricultural projected to start at 5.2 percent and … therefore needs to quickly put in place policies to accelerate growth. Transforming the agriculture sector will be a critical … element of any growth strategy. Agriculture accounts for 35-40 percent of GDP, and employs around 80 percent of the population …

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Poverty Exit and Entry in Poor Villages in China

Zhang, Yumei; Filipski, Mateusz; Chen, Kevin; Diao, Xinshen - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Rapid economic growth in China’s booming regions has left other areas of the country lagging behind. We shed light on the poverty dynamics of one such region by analyzing a census-like survey of three administrative villages of Guizhou province in 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2011. While the absolute...

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