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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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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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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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Myanmar's Agriculture Sector : Unlocking the Potential for Inclusive Growth
Raitzer, David - 2015
Myanmar's agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country's inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to fast-growing markets, the country's agriculture has key competitive advantages. At the same...
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The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321368
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Resource curse or not: A question of appropriability
Boschini, Anne D.; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2003
This paper shows that whether natural resources are good or bad for a country's development depends crucially on the interaction between institutional setting and the type of resources that the country possesses. Some natural resources are for economical and technical reasons more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281425
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The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670216
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Resource curse or not : a question of appropriability
Boschini, Anne D. (contributor); Pettersson, Jan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper shows that whether natural resources are good or bad for a country's development depends crucially on the interaction between institutional setting and the type of resources that the country possesses. Some natural resources are for economical and technical reasons more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001788950