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Advancing Agricultural Productivity in Africa: An Executive Interview with Eric Raby, Vice President of Global Marketing and Commercial Development, AGCO
(Goychuk) Schroeder, Kateryna - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) 2
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org
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A Seismic Change: Land Control in Africa. Is this a Wake Up Call for Agribusiness?
Connolly, Aidan J.; Phillips-Connolly, Kate; Lyons, Mark - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) 2
land grab, Africa, land ownership, development, agribusiness
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909751
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The Health Effects of Women Empowerment: Recent Evidence from Northern Ghana
Ross, Kara L.; Zereyesus, Yacob A.; Shanoyan, Aleksan; … - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 18 (2015) 1
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA). www.ifama.org
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Impacts of large-scale land investments on income, prices, and employment : empirical analyses in ethiopia
Baumgartner, Philipp; Braun, Joachim von; Abebaw, Degnet; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 72 (2015), pp. 175-190
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Pensions in Africa
Stewart, Fiona; Yermo, Juan - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2009
This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries. The paper was designed as an overview/background document to provide context and assist discussion at the OECD/IOPS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962929
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Robustness of the Carhart four-factor and the Fama-French three-factor models on the South African stock market
Boamah, Nicholas Addai - In: Review of accounting & finance 14 (2015) 4, pp. 413-430
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507491
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Robustness of the Carhart four-factor and the Fama-French three-factor models on the South African stock market
Boamah, Nicholas Addai - In: Review of Accounting and Finance 14 (2015) 4, pp. 413-430
African stock market (SASM). It examines the ability of the models to capture size, book-to-market (BM) and momentum effects … April 2012 to examine the size, BM and momentum effects on the SASM. The paper constructs the test assets from a 3 × 3 sort … on size and BM and a 3 × 3 sort on size and momentum. The paper estimates momentum as the past six-months’ cumulative …
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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent sustained growth in factor productivity. To compare the contribution of these four human capital inputs, as expanded specification of the wage function is estimated from household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444153
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The impacts of mobile phone coverage expansion and personal networks on migration: evidence from Uganda
Muto, Megumi - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Personal networks can help rural workers find urban jobs. Moreover, when the information flow increases due to the mobile phone coverage expansion, the new information flow may strengthen the existing personal networks or bypass them, helping those who were previously outside the networks in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880131
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An Assessment of the UN's Millennium Development Goals and its Millennium Declaration
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2006
The United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, passed by the General Assembly in September 2000, is assessed with particular attention being given to the Millennium Development Goals and associated targets outlined in the Declaration. The focus of the article is not so much on the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882249