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Oil revenues for public investment in Africa: Targeting urban or rural areas?
Böhme, Marcus; Breisinger, Clemens; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general equilibrium model featuring inter-temporal productivity spillovers, which may exhibit a sector-specific and regional bias. In general, the results bear out the expectation that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278174
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Foreign assistance and the food crisis of 2007 - 08
Abbott, Philip - 2012
Dramatically increased international agricultural commodity prices from 2007 to mid-2008 brought food inflation and greater incidence of poverty and malnutrition to developing countries. Higher food prices in 2011 threaten to repeat that crisis. The international community responded strongly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319859
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Agriculture and food security in Asia by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2012
Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397264
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International co-operation for agricultural development and food and nutrition security: New institutional arrangements for related public goods
von Braun, Joachim - 2013
Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319864
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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54
in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio …, especially through global-scale, market- related mechanisms. Policies to increase local agricultural production in South Africa …
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Long-run impacts of the conflict in Ukraine on food security in Africa
Balma, Lacina; Heidland, Tobias; Jävervall, Sebastian; … - 2022
-term consequences of the conflict on food security in Africa. We use a long-run general equilibrium trade model and study three … compromise food security in Africa. We document important cross-country heterogeneity in the severity of impacts. … die möglichen langfristigen Auswirkungen des Konflikts auf die Ernährungssicherheit in Afrika. Wir verwenden ein …
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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010
Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280240
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300161
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Impact Assessment of National and Regional Policies Using the Philippine Regional General Equilibrium Model (PRGEM)
Briones, Roehlano M. - 2009
For the Philippines, quantitative policy analysis should incorporate regional differences in welfare and economic structure, which arise partly from geographic constraints. However, existing CGE models offer limited analysis of regional effects or national impacts of region-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421134
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264330