ESSP Working Paper 136, by Seneshaw Tamru, Bart Minten, Johan F. M. Swinnen. Abstract: Exchange rate policies can have important implications on incentives for export agriculture. However, their effects are often not well understood. We study the issue of foreign exchange controls and pricing in the value chain for Ethiopia’s coffee - its most important >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Post-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 135, by Bart Minten, Seneshaw Tamru, and Thomas Reardon. Abstract: We study post-harvest losses (PHL) in important and rapidly growing rural-urban value chains in Ethiopia. We analyze self-reported PHL from different value chain agents – farmers, wholesale traders, processors, and retailers – based on unique large-scale data sets for two major commercial >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
The rising costs of nutritious foods: The case of Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 134, by Fantu Nisrane Bachewe and Bart Minten. Abstract: Costs of healthy diets are worryingly rising in a number of developed and emerging economies. However, less is known on these costs for developing countries. Using price data from a large number of markets in Ethiopia, we find that real prices of all >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Geography of public service delivery in rural Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 133, by Gashaw T. Abate, Mekdim Dereje, Kalle Hirvonen, and Bart Minten. Abstract: Remote areas are often characterized by lower welfare outcomes due to economic disadvantages and higher transaction costs for trade. But their worse situation may also be linked to worse public service delivery. Relying on large household surveys in rural >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Performance of direct seed marketing pilot program in Ethiopia: Lessons for scaling-up
ESSP Working Paper 132, by Leulsegged Kasa Mekonen, Nicholas Minot, James Warner, and Gashaw Tadesse Abate. Abstract: This study evaluates the impact in the main cropping season of 2015 of a new approach to the distribution of improved seed in Ethiopia, known as Direct Seed Marketing (DSM). Under DSM, seed producers are allowed to sell >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
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