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Infrastructure improvements and maize market integration: Bridging the Zambezi in MozambiqueTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW. Historically, transport infrastructure connecting the most agriculturally productive areas of Mozambique and the richer southern region has been poor...
infrastructure Agricultural market performance PricesBook Chapter
The construction sector in ZambiaFrom the book: Mining for Change
Industrialization Local content Economic linkagesBook Chapter
The construction sector in GhanaFrom the book: Mining for Change
Construction sector Price dynamics Expenditure shocksWorking Paper
Migrants leaving mega-cities: Where they move and why prices matterTraditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect...
Brazil Internal migration PricesJournal Article
Commodity Prices and Intra-Household Labor AllocationVolatility in commodity markets poses a distinct risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labor supplyWorking Paper
The role of the construction sector in influencing natural resource use, structural change, and industrial development in ZambiaThe construction sector plays a critical role in delivering quality infrastructure, which in turn influences the use of natural resource revenues towards achieving structural change and industrial development...
Construction sector infrastructure PricesWorking Paper
The role of the construction sector in GhanaThe research explores the structure and performance of Ghana’s construction subsector, in light of the country’s 2007 oil discovery...
Construction sector Price dynamics Expenditure shocksWorking Paper
The impact of infrastructure shocks on agricultural markets: Evidence from the Zambezi river in MozambiquePrior to 2009, there was no direct road connection between the southern regions of Mozambique—where the capital city is located—and the more agriculturally-productive central and northern regions...
infrastructure Agricultural market performance PricesBook Chapter
Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South AfricaFrom the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Equality and inequality Inflation (Finance) MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from VietnamVolatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labor supplyWorking Paper
Falling oil prices and sustainable energy transition: Towards a multilateral agreement on fossil-fuel subsidiesFossil-fuel subsidies are economically inefficient and harmful for the environment yet efforts to phase them out at the national and international levels have not been effective...
International trade Nonrenewable natural resources PricesJournal Article
Agricultural Commodity Price Shocks and Their Effect on Growth in Sub-Saharan AfricaCommodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Agriculture Economic growth MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
The recent evolution of consumption poverty in RwandaThis paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable good quality household surveys analysed along with detailed price data. Rwanda achieved impressive growth over this period...
Household survey Poverty PricesBlog
From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30 th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development Economics’ here in Helsinki. It was a great occasion...
Agriculture Business enterprises Capital investmentsBlog
Malawi's Farm Subsidy Benefits the Poor but Doesn't Come CheapMalawi’s farm input subsidy benefits the poor and can be part of a viable national development strategy. Agriculture is Malawi’s main economic sector...
Agriculture Equilibrium (Economics) Expenditures, PublicBlog
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy - An Interview with Per Pinstrup-Andersen
In this interview, Per Pinstrup-Andersen talks about the international project which has culminated in the book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability . (Oxford University Press, 2015) More about the project ...
Agricultural industries Food security Food supply