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How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically … of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient variation, minimum subsistence consumption requirements, domestic … official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture could generate, contrary to traditional Dutch disease concerns, an …
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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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The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical contributions that use cross country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a brief review of the theoretical literature and of...
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Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …
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identified as a major source of the disequilibrium of world agriculture. Recently, as many high-performing economies in Asia … advantage from agriculture to manufacturing. In order to prevent this disparity from culminating in serious social and political …
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This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...
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This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
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In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important source of the increase in food demand is per capita demand growth induced by rising...
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as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely … to be smaller than that of non-agriculture (though not because of inherently inferior productivity growth), the indirect …
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To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
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