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Oil revenues for public investment in Africa: Targeting urban or rural areas?

Böhme, Marcus; Breisinger, Clemens; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general equilibrium model featuring inter-temporal productivity spillovers, which may exhibit a sector-specific and regional bias. In general, the results bear out the expectation that...

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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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Agriculture and food security in Asia by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2012

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China from …

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South-South Trade: An Asian Perspective

Athukorala, Prema-Chandra - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to inform the contemporary policy debate on promoting trade among developing countries (South–South trade) by analyzing trade patterns of developing Asian economies from a comparative global perspective. The paper begins with a stage-setting historical overview of...

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The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels

Gollin, Douglas; Parente, Stephen L.; Rogerson, Richard - 2004

This paper examines the effect of agricultural development on a country's overall development and growth experience. In most poor countries, large fractions of land, labor, and other productive resources are devoted to producing food for subsistence needs. This 'food problem' can delay a...

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Políticas públicas de inovação no setor agropecuário: Uma avaliação dos fundos setoriais

Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2012

The aim of this paper is to analyze the sectoral funds directed to agribusiness (CTAgribusiness). Besides presenting the national system of agricultural innovation in Brazil, the study shows the dynamic of technological development related to agribusiness sectoral funds. A description of the...

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Agricultural transformation, technology adoption and inclusion of small farmers: The case of dairy in East Africa

Ignowski, Liz; Minten, Bart - 2021

Based on unique primary surveys, we study dairy transformation processes in East Africa, specifically in Ethiopia and …

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Foreign assistance and the food crisis of 2007 - 08

Abbott, Philip - 2012

Dramatically increased international agricultural commodity prices from 2007 to mid-2008 brought food inflation and greater incidence of poverty and malnutrition to developing countries. Higher food prices in 2011 threaten to repeat that crisis. The international community responded strongly to...

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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