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The role of agriculture in development : implications for Sub-Saharan Africa

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Youth and jobs in rural Africa : beyond stylized facts

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Sub-Saharan Africa's rural population is growing rapidly, and more young people are entering the labour market every year. This raises serious policy questions. Can rural economies absorb enough job seekers? Could better-educated youth transform Africa's rural economies by adopting new...

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Youth and jobs in rural Africa : beyond stylized facts

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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa : a hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda

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Producing biofuels in low-income countries : an integrated environmental and economic assessment for Tanzania

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household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic incentives to convert unused lands to sugarcane-ethanol production … involve smallholders in feedstock production in order to reduce rural poverty, especially since our results indicate that … biofuel strategy for Tanzania by limiting potential poverty reduction. Unlike previous studies, our integrated assessment …