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IMPACTS OF COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ON INCOME AND ASSET ACQUISITION IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF NIGERIA

Nkonya, Ephraim M.; Phillip, Dayo; Mogues, Tewodaj; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

finds that the project succeeded in targeting the poor and women farmers in its productive asset acquisition component …

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Decentralization of National Transfer Programs: compliance, local revealed equivalence scales, and efficacy of aid

Simons, Andrew M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Numerous national transfer programs around the world are designed with uniform benefit schedules imposed by central governments, but implemented by local governments. The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, the second largest safety net in Sub Saharan Africa, is one such program....

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The Farm Bill and Rural Economies: Broadband Investment Over the last Decade

Stenberg, Peter L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Rural communities have had less Internet service accessibility than their urban counterparts and, as a consequence, have been perceived as disadvantaged. Federal government policy makers have recognized the shortfall in service provision with its perceived disadvantage and have been trying to...

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Targeting of and outreach to the poor by rural development nonprofit organizations in Cameroon

Balgah, Roland Azibo; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - Institut für Agrar- und Sozialökonomie in den Tropen … - 2010

. While the economic theories attempt to explain the formation and functioning of nonprofit organizations, the targeting and … beneficiaries and non beneficiaries of its small scale fish farming program as a proxy for targeting efficiency. Poverty is measured … job in serving poor communities, although its self targeting approach led to a disproportionately higher share of …

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RDP capacities, changing governance styles and the new challenges

Dwyer, Janet; Pereira, Sandrina; Mikk, Merit; Peepson, Argo - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

CAP Pillar 2 policies and Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) reflect a broad range of governance styles and policy priorities, as well as significant devolution to regions and/or provinces within Member States. The processes supporting this new style of policymaking have become increasingly...

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Efficiency of selected risk management instruments. An empirical analysis of risk reduction in Kazakhstani crop production

Heidelbach, Olaf - 2007

Kazakhstan?s agricultural sector plays an important role in the country'seconomy. Not only does it function as an economic output producer, it alsoserves as a social buffer in times of transition to a market economy. Therestructuring process had a strong impact on the economic performance...

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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis

Katchova, Ani L. - 2010

The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...

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Distributional Impacts of Food Price Changes on Consumer Welfare in Hungary and Romania following EU Accession

Hubbard, Carmen; Szigeti, Judith; Podruzsik, Szilard - 2010

This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price changes as a result of accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007. It identifies in both countries those...

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Value Chains and Chains of Values: Tracing Tanzanian Tea

Loconto, A. - 2010

The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value chains for Tanzanian tea. This paper takes a look at a traditional export commodity, tea, and discusses the implications of involvement in value-based certification schemes...

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Effets d’un changement institutionnel, la réforme du protocole sucre (ACP-UE), sur la filière légumes frais à l’île Maurice.

Ramasawmy, B.; Fort, F. - 2010

This paper investigates the strategies adopted by economic actors in the context of an institutional change. We base ourselves on data collected as part of an exploratory study in the sugar and fresh vegetable supply chains in Mauritius. The reform of the sugar protocol between the European...

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