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Price incentives, non-price factors, and agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cointegration analysis

Thiele, Rainer - 2002

This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of pricing policies, macroeconomic distortions, and...

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Agricultural imports, agriculture productivity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel M. - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 15-28

This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in … bidirectional causality between agricultural imports and agriculture productivity in the full sample, and in middle- and low …-income non-oil-exporting countries. The relationship between agricultural imported inputs and agriculture productivity is …

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A Century of Rice Innovations

Halos, Saturnina C. - 2005

productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …

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Untangling the quality of governance from the level of income: Are Sub-Saharan African countries governed well?

Gundlach, Erich; Hartmann, Susanne - 2005

We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face...

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The bias against agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Has it survived 20 years of structural adjustment programs?

Thiele, Rainer - 2002

This paper deals with the question of whether the discrimination against agriculture that prevailed in Sub-Saharan Africa until the early 1980s has continued to characterize the region despite the widespread adoption of structural adjustment programs. The evolution of both direct interventions...

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Institutional analysis of financial market fragmentation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A risk-cost configuration approach

Nissanke, Machiko; Aryeetey, Ernest - 2006

The paper examines the source of financial market fragmentation in sub-Saharan Africa in the framework of institutional economics. Based on fieldwork data from Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania, it analyses financial risk management, the transaction costs for loan screening and monitoring,...

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Does the WTO agreement on agricultural endanger food security in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Gayi, Samuel K. - 2006

The paper examines the state of food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), based on an analysis of a selection of indicators of food security and nutritional wellbeing during the period 1990-2002 within the context of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It argues that it may be advisable for those...

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Aid, debt relief and new sources of finance for meeting the millennium development goals

Addison, Tony; Mavrotas, George; McGillivray, Mark - 2005

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have lofty expectations regarding the impact of official development aid. Are these expectations valid? This paper surveys the literature on aid and growth. It finds that practically all aid studies since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic...

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Development assistance and development finance: Evidence and global policy agendas

Addison, Tony; Mavrotas, George; McGillivray, Mark - 2005

Understanding the development effects of official aid is crucial to building a better bridge between research and policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a new narrative. In the light of this narrative, the paper...

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Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for transmission mechanisms

Gomanee, Karuna; Girma, Sourafel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2005

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify investment as the most significant transmission mechanism, and...

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