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Stakeholders’ Consultation Meeting on Agrifood value chains in Odisha – Challenges and Opportunities by Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta, Breisinger, Clemens, Kassim, Yumna, Pauw, Karl

“…Economic and institutional reforms are underway, and their successful implementation in the next few years will increase the per capita income and improve the average living standard of the people. …”
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Ethiopia: growth options and poverty reduction by Diao, Xinshen, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Gautam, Madhur, Keough, James, Chamberlin, Jordan, You, Liangzhi, Puetz, Detlev, Resnick, Danielle, Yu, Bingxin

“…With a per capita income of only about 20 percent of the African average, Ethiopia is one of the world’s poorest countries. …”
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Agricultural transformation and market innovation: Theory, concepts, and definitions by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The structural transformation where the share of agriculture in gross domestic product (GDP) and employment declines as per capita income rises is well documented. Classical theorists, led by Lewis (1954), viewed economic development as a growth process of relocating factors of production from an agricultural sector characterized by low productivity and the use of traditional technology to a modern industrial sector with higher productivity. …”
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Ghana: Agricultural growth key to spur Ghana's economic growth by Resnick, Danielle, Diao, Xinshen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Yet, despite 30 years of continuous growth in per capita income and rapid urbanization, the country has not been able to industrialize and most of the workforce is either trapped in traditional agriculture or low-productivity jobs in the services sector. …”
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Who will feed China in the 21st century?: Income growth and food demand and supply in China by Fukase, Emiko, Martin, Will

“…China's current per capita income is in a range where consumption growth is high and in excess of production growth, but the gap between supply and demand is likely to diminish as population and per capita consumption growth decelerate. …”
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Agricultural policy reforms and regional market integration in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe by Valdes, Alberto, Muir-Leresche, Kay

“…In many countries in Sub-saharan Africa, per capita income has even declined. External developments have had an adverse effect, as the slowdown in world economic activity and deteriorating terms of trade for most agricultural commodities have posed severe difficultues for many developing countries. …”
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Policy options for increasing crop productivity and reducing soil nutrient depletion and poverty in Uganda by Nkonya, Ephraim M., Pender, John L., Kaizzi, Crammer, Kato, Edward, Mugarura, Samuel

“…Larger families use more erosive practices but realize higher value of crop production per acre but have lower per capita income. Access to financial capital, markets and roads has limited effect on land management. …”
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Petroleum subsidies in Yemen: Leveraging reform for development by Breisinger, Clemens, Engelke, Wilfried, Ecker, Olivier

“…Yemen, as the country with the lowest per capita income in the group of countries with a high level of energy subsidies, started to reduce subsidies in 2010 and is discussing further options for reform. …”
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Transforming the rural Asian economy: the unfinished revolution by Rosegrant, Mark W., Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…Improvements in food security, poverty reduction, and per capita income initiated by the Green Revolution have been substantial and lasting. …”
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Sustaining and accelerating Africa's agricultural growth recovery in the context of changing global food prices by Badiane, Ousmane

“…Starting in the mid-1990s, Africa embarked upon its longest period of sustained, positive per capita income growth since the 1960s. This growth recovery has made a dent in poverty and holds out hope that a number of African countries may reach the Millennium Development Goal targets for poverty and food security (MDG 1), if not by 2015, then within the following few years. …”
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Forest incomes and poverty alleviation under participatory forest management in the Bale Highlands, Southern Ethiopia by Yemiru, T., Roos, A., Campbell, Bruce M., Bohlin, F.

“…The result indicates that forest products are the most important sources of income contributing to 34% and 53% of household per capita income and per capita cash income, respectively. …”
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Female hunting participation in Europe and North America by Serup, Bjarni

“…European countries with higher per capita income and higher level of education had a larger proportion of female hunters. …”
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Impact of NERICA Adoption on Incomes of Rice-Producing Households in Northern Ghana by Wiredu, A., Asante, B., Martey, E., Diagne, A., Dogbe, W.

“…To control for endogeneity, the study used the local average treatment effect (LATE) estimation methodology and showed that NERICA adoption significantly increased rice income, agricultural income, per-capita income and total annual income by $196.52, $446.37, $0.44 and $498.44, respectively. …”
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Youth participation in agriculture and poverty reduction in Nigeria by Osabohien, R., Wiredu, A., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Mignouna, Djana B., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Manyong, Victor, Bamba, Z., Awotide, B.A.

“…The daily wage rate of hired labor and the total farmland owned are the variables that positively explained the per capita income. Poverty was reduced by market access, having agriculture as a primary occupation, income from agricultural production, the total monetary value of all the household assets, determination to remain in agriculture, and the square of the respondents’ age. …”
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Food security implications of rice value chain management in Bangladesh by Mujeri, Mustafa K., Ahmed, Nazneen, Hossain, M. I.

“…Despite a large population and severe resource constraints, the country has achieved significant development including steady growth in per capita income and impressive gains in human development. …”
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World agriculture in a dynamically changing environment: IFPRI's long-term outlook for food and agriculture by Msangi, Siwa, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Fuelled by the turbulence of world agricultural markets, the debate on relations among agriculture, food security, natural resources, population growth and economic development has been revamped over the last few years. how are growth prospects and the expected evolution of per capita income in the long term going to affect the agricultural and food economy? …”
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The Idea of Inclusive Growth and Development Policy by Naqvi, Syed Nawab Haider

“…The evolution of development policy over time can be characterized as a faltering pursuit of inclusive growth: namely, an integrated program of achieving highest possible rate of growth of the real GDP that doubles per capita income within a short period of time, with an eye on distributive justice and an undivided focus on reduction in poverty. …”
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Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy challenges by Dorosh, Paul A., Rashid, Shahidur

“…In fact, since 2001 the per capita income in certain rural areas has risen by more than 50 percent, and crop yields and availability have also increased. …”
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Perspectives on European agriculture in 2020 by Folmer, C., Keyzer, Michiel, Merbis, M. A., Stolwijk, H. J. J., Veenendaal, P. J. J.

“…Earlier 2020 briefs identified annual growth rates for world population of 1.7 percent per year based on United Nations projections and per capita income growth in low- and middle-income economies of 2.9 percent as the major driving forces for growth in agricultural demand. …”
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Accelerated growth and structural transformation: Assessing Ghana’s options to reach middle-income status by Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen, Thurlow, James, Yu, Bingxin, Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the next decade. In this paper we explore the growth experiences of other developing countries that have successfully transformed their economies from situations similar to Ghana’s today. …”
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