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AN EVALUATION OF POST-INDEPENDENCE AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN RELATION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA(1960 - 1987}

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

AGRICULTURE IN ITS COMMON PARLENCE INCLUDES PRODUCTION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN THE FIELDS OF CROPS, FORESTRY, FISHING AND LIVESTOCK. NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY LOW FARM INCOMES; LOW CAPACITY LEVEL TO SATISFY FOOD AND FIBRE NEEDS OF THE COUNTRY, AND PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES OF...

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Plowing Through the Data

Mundlak, Yair - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 1-19

In this paper I report on work that has aimed at measuring and understanding the sources of productivity differences among firms and their changes over time. These issues have been investigated at the micro level, which is the decision-making level. The relationship between inputs and the...

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What Makes a Commodity Currency?

Lee, Dongwon; Chen, Yu-chin - Department of Economics, University of California-Riverside - 2014

The â€œcommodity currencyâ€ literature highlights the robust exchange rate response to fluctuations in world commodity prices that occurs for major commodity exporters. The magnitude of this response, however, varies widely among countries. Our panel data analysis using 63 countries for...

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The causality between energy consumption and economic growth: A multi-sectoral analysis using non-stationary cointegrated panel data

Costantini, Valeria; Martini, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma 3 - 2009

The increasing attention given to global energy issues and the international policies needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have given a renewed stimulus to research interest in the linkages between the energy sector and economic performance at country level. In this paper, we analyse the...

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Factors Determining FDI in Nigeria: Role of Emerging Economies

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of FDI in Nigeria, which is poor in terms of income but rich in natural … resources. This study is an extension of our earlier work (Dinda 2012). Incorporating emerging trade partners of Nigeria in VECM … this paper re-examine the factors determining FDI inflow to Nigeria in this globalized era. The economic activity of the …

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Evaluation of The Necessary of Agriculture Public Expenditure for Poverty Reduction and Food Security in Benin

Labintan, Adeniyi Constant - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Benin is predominantly an agricultural country which accounted for 39% of GDP with 70% economically active population in the agricultural sector, that year. Small, independent farmers produce 90% of agricultural output, but only about 17% of the total area is cultivated, much of it in the form...

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On why and how agriculture declines

Esposti, Roberto - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 31 (2014) C, pp. 73-88

This article proposes an empirical model to investigate the long-run decline of the agricultural sector during economic growth. Within a two-sector representation of open regional economies, agricultural decline eventually results from the interaction of few underlying driving forces acting on...

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Regional disparity of factor endowment and agricultural labor productivity in China

Xiangfei, XIN; Xiaoyun, LIU - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 3 (2008) 3, pp. 380-409

Since the introduction of the household responsibility system, China¡¯s agricultural economy has been growing with the enlargement of regional labor productivity disparity. Based on the traditional decomposition technique for the research of agricultural economic growth, this paper uses the...

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Smallholder Risk Management in Developing Countries

Cervantes-Godoy, Dalila; Kimura, Shingo; Antón, Jesús - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

This paper addresses various aspects of risk and risk management for smallholders in developing countries, and presents a quantitative assessment of farm-level risks and risk management strategies in three emerging economies: Brazil, China and Viet Nam. The analysis covers production, income,...

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Enabling Environment for Agricultural Growth and Competitiveness: Evaluation, Indicators and Indices

Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Orden, David; Kwieciński, Andrzej - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

The key contribution of this report lies in developing a typology to structure the components of the enabling environment for agricultural growth and competitiveness, and in constructing an illustrative Agricultural Growth Enabling Index (AGEI) to summarise a wide array of available information...

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