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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475007
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Die Lissabon-Strategie : Wachstum und Beschäftigung durch ländliche Entwicklung
2005
Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf den Weltmärkten. Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, eines wichtigen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715228
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Effets d’un changement institutionnel, la réforme du protocole sucre (ACP-UE), sur la filière légumes frais à l’île Maurice.
Ramasawmy, B.; Fort, F. - 2010
ourselves on data collected as part of an exploratory study in the sugar and fresh vegetable supply chains in Mauritius. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442741
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Renewed Growth and Poverty Reduction in Zambia
Bigsten, Arne; Tengstam, Sven - 2010
The Zambian economy has grown relatively fast over the last decade. This article discusses the challenge of using these growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the population and reduce poverty. The poverty head count index is found to have declined between 1998 and 2004 by about...
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Increasing Returns to Marketing in Zambian Maize Markets
Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2010
198 pairs of maize markets in Zambia and correlated random effects linear and tobit estimators were used to model the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467519
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Zambia's structural adjustment program : a tool for survival or just another economic experiment?
Mwale, Kaemba - 1999
When Zambia embarked on a Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) in 1992, there was tremendous hope for an economic turn … performance of SAP in Zambia. Nationals should play a larger role in the planning and implementation of future economic reforms in … Zambia and a national safety-net fund for the retrenched should be established. Investment in the agricultural and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449555
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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?
Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009
to study Zambia’s regional agricultural trade flows and the impact of the SADC Trade Protocol (SADC-TP). Zambia’s volume … of trade is significantly related to most of the standard gravity variables. The results indicate that Zambia has been … largely trading below potential, especially with respect to exports. There have been improvements in Zambia’s trade flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444855
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Experimental Evidence about Earning, Saving, and Borrowing Money in Rural Malawi.
Goldberg, Jessica A. - 2011
Malawi using panel data from a unique field experiment. Though employment in daily wage markets is important to individuals …, describes the results of a randomized field experiment in Malawi examining borrower responses to being fingerprinted when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477404
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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure
Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008
in the study is from Malawi collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).Using the direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446368
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Parameter Estimation for the Lognormal Distribution
Ginos, Brenda Faith 1986- - 2009
The lognormal distribution is useful in modeling continuous random variables which are greater than or equal to zero. Example scenarios in which the lognormal distribution is used include, among many others: in medicine, latent periods of infectious diseases; in environmental science, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457140