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Agricultural Export Performance in Africa: Elements of comparison with Asia

Ngaruko, Floribert - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

exports. The paper also finds sharp sub-regional differences: CFA economies’ agricultural exports are less diversified than … appear to shift relatively more rapidly from primary towards processed commodity exports. The study then investigates the …

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Price, Exchange Rate Volatility and Nigeria's Agricultural Trade Flows: a Dynamic Analysis.

Adubi, A.A.; Okunmadewa, F. - African Economic Research Consortium - 1999

production base of the economy with a positive bias for the production of agricultural exports. The foreign exchange reforms that … facilitated a cumulative depreciation of the effective exchange rate were expected to increase the domestic prices of agricultural … exports and therefore boost domestic production. …

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Policy Consistency and Inflation in Ghana.

Sowa, N.K. - African Economic Research Consortium - 1996

Inflation appears to be the macro-problem in Ghana for which no antidote has been found under the economic recovery programme. It is possible that either a wrong diagnosis has been made of the problem, or that certain factors within the economy are preventing inflation from staying within target...

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Diversification and Sophistication as drivers of structural transformation for Africa: The Economic Complexity Index of African Countries

Yameogo, Nadege Desiree; Nabassaga, Tiguune; Shimeles, Abebe - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 2

that includes detailed information related to technology intensiveness of African countries exports, their revealed … African economies are not complex. Their exports are weakly diversified and weakly sophisticated. This could contribute to …

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Institutional Adjustment and Adjusting to Institutions.

Klitgaard, R. - World Bank Group - 1995

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The Role of Primary Commodities in Economic Development: Sub-Saharan Africa Versus the Rest of the World

Carmignani, Fabrizio; Chowdhury, Abdur - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2007

The impact of the dependence on primary commodities for economic development is analysed within the framework of growth regressions. While there is no evidence of a generalized primary commodity curse, reliance on primary commodities does retard growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Which factors...

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The Sequencing of Economic Reforms: Lessons from Zambia.

McPherson, M.F. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1995

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African Water Resources; Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development.

Sharma, N.P.; Damhaug, T.; Gilgan-Hunt, E.; Grey, D.; … - World Bank Group - 1996

Water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have become a strategic commodity, with supply limited in terms of quantity and quality, and demand increasing due to population growth and economic development. The strategy developed in this document is based on the principle that water is a scarce...

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State, Community and Local Development in Nigeria.

Francis, P. - World Bank Group - 1996

This study presents the results of consultative surveys examining local organizations in thirty-six rural and urban communities across Nigeria.

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Values and Economic Performance: Theory and some Evidence from Kenya

Aharonovitz, Gilad; Nyaga, Elizabeth Kabura - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2008

Policy, saving rates, human capital, etc. are possible explanations for poor economic performance, but while these factors are changeable, underdevelopment persists. Looking for an unchangeable factor, we construct a theory for the effect of values, such as moral values, risk-taking, and...

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