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Farmers’ Food Price Volatility and Nigeria’s Growth Enhancement Support Scheme
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
The prices of food in Nigeria have become considerably higher and more volatile since 2012. The aim of this research … volatility at farm gate level. In number, 600 rural farmers were sampled across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Results …-compelled price increment in Nigeria. The findings suggested the need to enhance the GESS in line with the agricultural transformation …
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Food price inflation in India : the growing economy with sluggish agriculture
Sasmal, Joydeb - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 20 (2015) 38, pp. 30-40
India is experiencing high rate of economic growth in the last two decades but the growth has been coupled with high rate of food price inflation. The growth has been very uneven across sectors with agriculture remaining very sluggish. The increase in per capita income has significantly...
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Analysis of farmers' food price volatility and Nigeria's growth enhancement support scheme
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda Nduka; Asongu, Simplice - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation and … 13 (2021) 4, pp. 463-478
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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2011
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices to...
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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...
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Agriculture and economic growth in Tunisia
Chebbi, Houssem Eddine - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 63-78
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of agriculture in economic growth and its interactions with other sectors of the Tunisian economy. Design/methodology/approach – Johansen's multivariate approach is used to study the cointegration of the different sectors of the...
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Food Security and Agriculture in the Low Income, Food- Deficit countries: 10 years after the Uruguay Round
Pingali, Prabhu; Stringer, Randy - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
This paper reviews agricultural and food security performances of developing countries after the Uruguay Round. In particular, issues and trends relevant to the interests of the low income food deficit and the net food importing countries are examined as the world prepares for further trade...
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Linkages and Rural Non-Farm Employment Creation: Changing Challenges and Policies in Indonesia
Kristiansen, Stein - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
Increasing problems of rural unemployment in Indonesia are at the core of this report. Numbers of unemployed increased dramatically after the 1997 economic crisis and millions of people searched to be reabsorbed in rural labour markets. Agricultural land is scarce, however, and entry barriers...
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The growth path of agricultural labor productivity in China : a latent growth curve model at the prefectural level
Bin, Peng; Vassallo, Marco - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-20
Given the shrinking proportion of agriculture output and the growing mobility of the labor force in China, how agricultural labor productivity develops has become an increasingly attractive topic for researchers and policy makers. This study aims to depict the development trajectory of...
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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting approach that goes along the lines of neoclassical growth...
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