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The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change was launched on October 30th last year. The attention it received in academic, political and popular circles worldwide has been perhaps unprecedented for a government report of its kind. Running now to nearly 700 pages, the Review contains a...
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India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and … minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …
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Using the Chinese Agriculture Technology Demonstration Center (ATDC) in Africa as a quasi-natural experiment, we … examine the causal impacts of China's aid on crop production in Africa. The data pertain to African country-by-crop panel data …
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Engagement in Africa -- The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away -- Zombie Investments -- Green Shoots -- The Future …"Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has … its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few …
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We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers' exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on...
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Using a purposive online and paper-based survey and focus group discussions with select target groups, this study makes inferences about the level of awareness of the Filipino people on ASEAN; their perceived problems confronting the Philippines and ASEAN; and their aspirations, concerns, and...
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