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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling financial openness growth-nexus in Nigeria: evidence from bounds testing to cointegration approach

Future Business Journal, 2020
Financial liberalization is theoretically known to be an important driver of economic growth; the emergence of new industries, the availability of money in the circulation and how it affects prices, extent of international trade in the countries among ...
Ismail O. Fasanya, Ismail A. Olayemi
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Liberalization and Capital Flight* [PDF]

, 2014
During the past decades, many countries experienced considerable capital flight. Residents moved their wealth abroad, using different ways to accumulate foreign assets. Since the 1990s, several of these countries reformed their domestic financial markets in an attempt to improve the functioning of their domestic financial systems and to increase the ...
Hermes, Niels, Lensink, Robert
openaire   +2 more sources

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-Run Pain, Long-Run Gain: The Effects of Financial Liberalization [PDF]

We examine the short- and long-run effects of financial liberalization on capital markets. To do so, we construct a new comprehensive chronology of financial liberalization in 28 mature and emerging economies since 1973. We also construct an algorithm to
Graciela Kaminsky, Sergio Schmukler
core   +3 more sources

From Disruption to Stabilization: A Functional Governance Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition in Montenegro

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global climate ambitions intensify, the key challenge lies not in setting renewable energy targets but in designing governance systems that can translate them into lasting transformation. The transition management literature has advanced a valuable research agenda for initiating change through niche innovations and participatory arenas in ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea, Igor Luksic, Bojana Boskovic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Process and effects of financial liberalization in transition countries: A selective literature survey [PDF]

Panoeconomicus, 2009
This paper aims at reviewing selected literature on (1) structural financial changes observed in a large sample of transition economies in the Central and/or Oriental Europe during the last two decades, (2) efficiency of this financial liberalization in ...
Berthomieu Claude, Ri Anastasia
doaj   +1 more source

EU Policy‐Making in the Digital Age: Major Trends and Insights From Public Policy Research

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Has digitalization changed policy‐making dynamics at the European Union (EU) level? To investigate this issue, this article presents a scoping review of the literature on EU digital policy‐making. While much scholarship adopts a ‘Governance’ approach, two conceptually rich strands emerge: critical approaches, and digital sovereignty.
Chloé Bérut
wiley   +1 more source

Interest Rate Convergence in Bangladesh

The International Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012
Financial liberalization, a widely-accepted policy paradigm since the 1980s, aims to remove financial repression and thus establish an efficient financial sector as a pre-requisite for financial development.
Dewan M. Rahman, Kohinur Akter
doaj  

How Does Financial Openness Impact Economic Growth in Tunisia? Insights from an ARDL Model

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business
This paper examines the short and long run dynamics between capital account liberalization and economic growth in Tunisia over the period 1984-2019. Based on the AutoRegressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method of Pesaran et al. (2001) and causality tests of
Mahdi Mnasri
doaj   +1 more source