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agriculture into a key sector for shared prosperity in rural areas: agriculture is no longer associated with poverty. The other … agriculture to thrive are in place: roads, advisory services, secure property rights, and access to health and education. This …
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This paper derives an applied general political economy model incorporating a model of political decision making into a computable general economic equilibrium model. Political decision making among a set of legislators is modeled via a mean voter decision rule derived from a modified non...
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This paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia, Central Asia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union, and in Central and Eastern Europe. The paper explains why...
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion's share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic …
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country. Zambia's agriculture sector faces challenges and is likely to grow more vulnerable as a result of climate change and … risk. At the same time, land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), and agriculture sector account for approximately … change concerns into its agriculture policy agenda. Under its Zambia climate-smart agriculture (CSA) strategy framework, the …
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more inclusive of all citizens. The agriculture sector, one of the five jewels in the Bhutanese economy, can play a key … goals of the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB). The government has set targets in a number of policy areas where agriculture …
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The government of Uganda (GoU) regards agriculture as a key economic sector to support Uganda's vision 2040 and the … transition to middle-income status. It recognizes that public spending on agriculture has a pivotal role in equipping the sector … population, and ultimately reduce poverty. To improve the quality and effectiveness of public expenditures in agriculture, Uganda …
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This document provides an investment plan for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Mali, developed with support of the … AAA Initiative and the World Bank, and technical assistanceof the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, the World … Agroforestry Centre and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS). It identifies specific …
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