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This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops...

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The Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure Act (CARD Act) of 2009 restricted several risk management practices of credit card issuers. Using a quasi-experimental design with credit bureau data on consumer lending, we find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the act's restrictions on...

Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Welfare Impact of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- Chapter 2: A Model of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- 2.1 Cash Crop Exports...