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Small farmers' access to high-value markets: what can we learn from the Malawi pigeopea value chain?
Makoka, Donald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
applies a value chain analysis to the pigeonpea sub-sector in Malawi to determine ways of improving the access of small … information and who are also faced with lack of access to improved varieties. For the Malawian exporters, their competitiveness is … through the use of the leading farmer organization, NASFAM, have the potential of improving the competitiveness of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042709
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Storage of Maize in Mozambique Under Dualistic Credit Markets: A spatial and Temporal Analysis
Arndt, Channing; Schiller, Rico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
The paper examines marketing patterns when interest and storage loss rates are greater in rural zones, representing informal sector storage usually on-farm, than in urban zones, representing formal sector storage off-farm. Empirical results indicate that divergences in interest and storage loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212583
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The Prices in Mozambican Agriculture: Some Observations
Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1987
The objective of this document is to contribute to an analysis of the prices in Mozambican agriculture with a view to improve the knowledge of this very important area of agricultural economics and to arrive at better informed and more consistent policy decisions. The document does not pretend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234834
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Macroeconomic Performance and Critical Development Issues
Tarp, Finn; Lau, Morten Igel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
This article presents the results of a careful analytical review of the Mozambican economy based on the scattered evidence of a recently published set of national accounts data, covering the period up to 1993, will be drawn upon. However, the objective is not to reach a final position on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008923039
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When the remedy is worse than the disease: Adjusting survey income data for price differentials, with special reference to Mozambique
Maia, Carlos; Van der Berg, Servaas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In using survey data for money metric analysis of poverty and well-being, it is customary to adjust either the data or the poverty line for spatial prices differentials where data exist to make such adjustment. In developing countries where recorded price differentials between regions or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693543
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Stabilization and Structual Adjustment in Mozambique: An Appraisal
Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
This paper outlines the complex historical legacy and structural adjustment efforts in Mozambique in addition to reviewing recent economic developments. An in-depth analysis of new and more reliable national accounts data show that macroeconomic stabilisation has occurred through recovery from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186603
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Trade Policy Reform and the Missing Revenue: A Gendered Analysis for Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
In this paper, we identify potential efficiency and equity gains from trade policy reforms in Mozambique. Particular attention is paid to reducing the observed high level of duty free importation and to studying whether differential gender specific impacts exist. Accordingly, the CGE model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186605
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Mozambique and natural disasters: human capital under threat
Prado C. Alfaiate, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper assesses the effect of a sequence of natural disasters on children’s health that hit Mozambique at the start of the 21st Century. The disasters in question were the floods of 2000 and the droughts of the years 2002 and 2003. Height-for-age z-scores of children between 1 and 3 years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567982
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Is Mozambican Growth Sustainable? A Comprehensive Wealth Accounting Prospect
Timothée, Ollivier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We estimate the wealth of Mozambique in 2000 and 2005 in order to assess the sustainability of its development path. Our methodology builds on Arrow et al. (2007). We show that Mozambican growth is driven mainly by human and physical capital accumulation, while the pressure on natural capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078663
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Considerazioni sui recenti censimenti dell'agricolutra, dell'industria e dei servizi in Mozambico
Cappiello, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The paper, after a short overview of the institutional framework of the National Statistical System and of the political and economic features of Mozambique, analyses the recent censuses of agriculture and of the enterprises which can represent an interesting case for Developing Countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619811