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From Maputo to Malabo : public agricultural spending and food security in Africa
Fontan, Charlotte; Mughal, Mazhar - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 46, pp. 5045-5062
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What works? : interventions aimed at reducing student dropout in higher education
Ibsen, Kristoffer Holst Kroustrup; Rosholm, Michael - 2024
High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...
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The role of staple crop production during the Covid-19 outbreak : evidence for women small producers in Senegal
Burrone, Sara; Dingacci, Giulia; Dia, Massylla; Bamba, … - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 26, pp. 3026-3042
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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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Effectiveness of fertilizer policy reforms to enhance food security in Kenya : a macro-micro simulation analysis
Boulanger, Pierre; Dudu, Hasan; Ferrari, Emanuele; … - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 8, pp. 841-861
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Should farmers farm more? : comparing marginal products within Malawian households
Brummund, Peter; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612629
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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural …
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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …
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Is mobile money changing rural Africa? : evidence from a field experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023
Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial … work suggests that mobile money can accelerate urbanization and structural change in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Chinese aid and nutrition improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Xu, Zhicheng Phil; Zhang, Yu; Li, Dongying - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 26, pp. 3098-3116
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