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Paving the Way for Development: The Impact of Road Infrastructure on Agricultural Production and Household Wealth in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ulimwengu,   John M.; Funes,   Jose; Headey,   Derek D.; You,   Liang.
Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank, 2006). Road investments are therefore a high priority in the government's investment plans, and those of its major donors. Whilst these are encouraging signs, very little is known about how the existing road network constrains agricultural and rural development, and how these new road investments would address these constraints. To inform this issue the present paper primarily employs GIS-based data to assess the impact of market access on agricultural and rural...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Infrastructure; Market access; Road and river transport; Agricultural production; Poverty.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; Production Economics.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49292

Are India’s Gender Imbalances Inducing Higher Household Savings?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chiu,   Alice; Headey,   Derek D.; Zhang,   Xiaobo.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61640

Something of a Paradox: The Neglect of Agriculture in Economic Development
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bezemer,   Dirk J.; Headey,   Derek D.
This paper argues that investment in agriculture has a large and continuing developmental importance in terms of both economic growth and poverty reduction. Moreover, targeted public resources have proven to be indispensable in achieving these results. Both arguments are supported with novel analyses which update and strengthen the traditional case for agriculture-led development with public-sector involvement. But despite the strong case for agriculture-led development strategies, the authors find that the financial resources allocated towards this sector have strongly declined over the last three decades, and they suggest that a shift towards new development paradigms since 1980 might be a significant explanation for this apparent Agricultural Paradox....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Productivity; Economic Growth; Poverty Alleviation; Urban Biases; Public Expenditure; Foreign Aid; Washington Consensus.; International Development.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25267

Navigating the Perfect Storm: Reflections on the Food, Energy, and Financial Crises
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Headey,   Derek D.; Malaiyandi,   Sangeetha; Fan,   Shenggen.
The closely interlinked food, fuel and financial crises pose a significant new challenge to the global effort to reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export restrictions and panic purchases turned a tightened market situation into a crisis. New evidence reveals that food prices rose sharply in many countries, and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the supply response in many countries was strong. The impacts of the financial crisis on poor countries have yet to fully roll out, but it is clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. Lastly, the global food system is fundamentally changing in a number of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food crisis; Energy crisis; Financial crisis; Agricultural development; Poverty; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Development.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53212

China's Growth Strategies
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Headey,   Derek D.; Kanbur,   Ravi; Zhang,   Xiaobo.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Political Economy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51156

The Burkinabe Cotton Story 1999-2007: Sustainable Success of Sub-Saharan Mirage?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kaminski,   Jonathan; Headey,   Derek D.; Bernard,   Tanguy.
Like many other African countries in the 1980s, Burkina Faso was urged to engage in a far-reaching liberalization of its state-led cotton sector. Yet unlike most of its neighbors, the Burkinabè government rejected both the status quo and wholesale liberalization, and instead embarked on a more gradual and sequenced reform path characterized by institutional innovations and partial privatization. Whether the reforms contained genuinely successful elements is therefore an important question, but also a difficult one given the absence of a counterfactual, the confounding influence of exogenous shocks and the recent financial troubles of the sector. To unravel this puzzle, this paper reviews existing evidence linking the reforms to various outcomes, but also...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Burkina Faso; Cotton; Poverty Reduction; Counterfactual analysis; Production Growth; Political Sustainability; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93137

Why African governments under-invest in agriculture: results from an expert survey
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Headey,   Derek D.; Benson,   Todd; Kolavalli,   Shashidhara; Fan,   Shenggen.
Agricultural productivity growth is widely seen as an essential instrument of poverty reduction, food security and broader economic growth. Paradoxically, however, the agricultural sector is often neglected by African governments in what is often termed ‘urban bias’. This paper explores what appears to be a very contemporary form of urban bias: that despite open acknowledgement of the importance of agriculture, public expenditure allocations to the agricultural sector remain very low in Africa. An innovation of the paper is to go beyond the broad cross-country picture about why this might be the case to instead examine more complex country stories through the use of expert surveys. Specifically, we interview senior policymakers in ministries of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural development; Urban bias; Public expenditure; Expert surveys.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Political Economy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51818