Author: Mustapha Rouis
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Devaluation of currency
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: N. S. S. Narayana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Grace Ongile
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064400
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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This study investigates the gender implications of agricultural sector reform in Kenya. The author focuses on smallholder tea production with the aim of pinpointing the factors that influence the adoption of tea among male and female farmers, assessing female farmers perceptions of the changes in living standards over the research period, and suggesting appropriate policy reforms to ensure that women 's interests are taken into account in the design of agricultural reforms.

Author: Clark Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Extract: Domestic markets are growing too slowly to absorb increases in U.S. farm production. But reliance on foreign markets can make farmers vulnerable to sudden swings in prices, which are transmitted to other domestic sectors as well. This report assesses U.S. agriculture's capacity to meet domestic and export demands, and the likely consequences of doing so, under different economic assumptions about the future. By shifting production among regions, adopting new technology, and keeping up the quality of its resources, U.S. agriculture could double its exports within the next 30 years.

Author: Hossein Askari
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Review the commonly pursued governmental agricultural policies, summarize and collate the results of some of the studies of peasant supply responsiveness. Identify the reasons for the different results across crops and countries and discuss the areas deserving further attention.

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780195209945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This, the second title in the World Bank Policy Research Reports (the first was the headline-making The East Asian Miracle), discusses the economic situation in Africa as it has evolved over the past several decades. To reverse the economic decline that began in the 1970s, many sub-Saharan African countries have undertaken efforts to restructure their economies. This has included liberalizing trade, deregulating markets and prices, privatizing public enterprises, and strengthening management of the financial and public sectors. Implementation has been uneven in different countries, and even those countries that have attempted major reforms have not achieved policies that are considered sound by international standards. A key finding is that improving policies paid off in higher GDR and sectoral growth rates, which are vital to reducing poverty; but in countries where policies deteriorated economic performance worsened. The report also shows that, despite the importance of reforming economic policies, countries need to invest more in human capital and infrastructure, expand their institutional capacity, and develop better governance.

Author: Maurice W. Schiff
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural prices
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Oliver Morrissey
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1781005311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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This timely Handbook comprehensively explores the complex relationships between trade and economic performance in developing countries, illustrating that it is not trade per se that is important but the context, at the firm, country and regional level, in which trade occurs.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004260005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats related to the ‘Tracking Development’ research project, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV, both in Leiden, in collaboration with scholars based in Africa and Asia. The project compared the performance of growth and development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa during the last sixty years. It tried to answer the question how two regions with comparable levels of income per capita in the 1950s could diverge so rapidly. Why are there so many Asian tigers and not yet so many African lions? What could Africa learn from Southeast Asian development trajectories? This book has won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2014

Author: T. Ademola Oyejide
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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