High-Yielding Variety Policies in Africa
| Autor: | Christopher Cramer, John Sender, Arkebe Oqubay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | African Economic Development ISBN: 0198832338 African Economic Development |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198832331.003.0010 |
| Popis: | Chapter 10 highlights policy priorities capable of generating large productivity improvements, balance of payments improvements, and big increases in employment, especially for rural women. Growth, structural transformation, and welfare improvements in African economies require a sustained high investment rate, led by public sector spending to maximize crowding in of private investment; they require state support for the development of ‘national champion’ firms (and farms); they cannot be sustained without a massive export drive; investment needs to be encouraged in specific kinds of labour-intensive economic activities. This ‘possibilist’ strategy depends developing capabilities for monitoring performance and disciplining recipients of state resources; among the relevant targets for firms are measures to encourage the effective organization and voice of the workers they employ. The strategy also has to include policies to expand the non-inflationary supply of basic wage goods, including intervention to manage grain prices. |
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