GROWTH STAGE THEORIES AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY*

Tegemeo Institute for Agricultural Development and Policy

BACKGROUND: The starting point for the design of effective programs to mitigate the impacts of AIDSrelated adult mortality is accurate information on how households are affected by, and respond to, premature death. This note presents key findings from the study, Measuring the Effects of Prime-Age Adult Death on Rural Households in Kenya. The full report is downloadable from the web address abov...

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

Agricultural Science and Technology Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction

This paper argues that the largely unrealized potential of agricultural science and technology (S&T) in promoting growth and poverty reduction in developing countries results from deeply rooted incompatibility among policy environments, institutional arrangements, and micro conditions and behavior in agricultural research and development (R&D). Achieving growth and poverty reduction based on gr...

Regional Growth and Development Theories Revisited

Regional economics has a long tradition in analytical research and policy modelling, with the aim to enhance our understanding of regional competitiveness conditions and of the emergence, persistence, and mitigation of spatial socio-economic disparities. Unequal regional development in our open economy has prompted a long-lasting debate on the validity and usefulness of economic growth theories...

Islamic Agricultural Finance and Growth

The objective of this study is to model and estimate the effect of financial services in the agricultural sector of Iran on the value added of this sector. Moreover, since as of 1984, the Interest Free Banking law was implemented, the effect of this change on the value added of the sector will be studied as the second objective. The model of the study consists of three tions. The volume of real...