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In this paper, the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on agricultural productivity and poverty reduction are … examined. Factors that hinder FDI flow to agriculture in Tanzania are assessed. Specifically, the role of FDI in improving an … agricultural firm’s efficiency in Tanzania and reforms required for more effective investment promotion in agriculture are examined …
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poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation …This study examines household characteristics and personal characteristics of the household head as the determinants of …, intermediate, bachelors and higher studies and finds evidence that poverty is greatest among the less literate households and …
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This paper deals with the effects of migrants remittances on poverty in Senegal. Data were extracted from the …. The results also indicate that richer households are more affected by remittances. The poverty headcount and poverty gap … are reduced in presence of remittance while the severity of poverty is worsened. …
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redistribution are necessary for poverty reduction. For growth theoreticians, economic growth must be pursued while for political … the effect of these variables using two recent national household survey data sets collected by the National Bureau of … statistics in 1996 and 2004 upon which we applied three commonly used poverty indices(FGT) and the Shapely decomposition …
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The purpose of this research is to test and evaluate the crowding-out effect of the investment expenditure in public sector on the investment effort by private sector by using data from Moroccan Economy. After the theoretical background of crowding-out effects in many domains of investment, we...
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It is commonly believed that public investments play a central role in Japan's discretionary fiscal policies, but the majority is implemented by local governments. After distinguishing between public investment by the central government and that by local governments, this paper utilizes wavelet...
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This paper investigates the long-run equilibrium relationship between the real private and total public investment disaggregated into government and public enterprises investment in Saudi Arabia by using the weak exogeneity and ARDL cointegration tests after using Engle-Granger and...
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The traditional approach towards analyzing the impact of public investment has been through including public capital as a third input factor in a Solow-model production function. Nonetheless, such approach implies several problems both at the theoretical and empirical level. Given such problems,...
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This paper analyzes the factors that play an important role in determining private investment in Pakistan using annual data for the period 1970-2006. The econometric tests undertaken support the view that private sector output, net capital inflows to the private sector, total sources of funds...
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