Does an inorganic fertilizer subsidy promote the use of organic fertilizers in Nigeria?
This study examines the crowding-out or -in effect of organic fertilizers as a result of the inorganic fertilizer subsidy program in Nigeria.
This study examines the crowding-out or -in effect of organic fertilizers as a result of the inorganic fertilizer subsidy program in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s agricultural policy has evolved considerably since the country gained political independence in 1960.
This paper explores the relationship between institutions and trade in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The current transformation of the agricultural sector in many African countries has been perceived to be connected to land resources and the quest to advance agriculture as a commercial enterprise.
The use of mobile ICTs (information and communication technologies) in Africa’s agricultural sector has proven to be an efficient and cost-effective method for sharing and exchanging information more widely.
The objective of this paper is to analyze trade potential versus actual realized trade among North African trading partners. Following the literature on production economics, we built a stochastic frontier gravity model.
This paper studies the impact of trade restrictions and illegal trade on price disparities within Nigeria, where a long list of import prohibitions on various consumer goods have raised the price of the consumption basket.
Two nonexclusive hypotheses have been put forward to explain why exporters enjoy higher productivity than do non-exporters: self-selection and learning-by-exporting.
This paper uses the border effect estimate from a gravity model to analyze the level of market trade integration among Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia from 2005-2012.
This paper analyses the structure of Namibia’s fishery sector, which consists of both marine-based fisheries and aquaculture.
The African continent is endowed with rich natural resources, including minerals and fossil fuels.
There are differentials in the conclusion of scholars as to what undermines Africa’s export flows to the European Union (EU) and United State of America (USA).
This paper assesses the effects of an artificial insemination program implemented in Senegal’s cow sector from 2008 to 2011.
This article uses an instrumental variables method to evaluate the impact of the use of health services on the productivity of rural households’ farming labor in Burkina Faso.
Few studies give a systematic account of the bribes paid by smugglers to different groups of state actors.
In a consistent effort to raise productivity and unlock the economic and social potential of the agricultural sector, the Senegalese government has implemented heavy subsidy programs, some of which target the use of inputs.
This paper quantifies the average effect of distance on bilateral agricultural trade using a large sample of countries.
Despite a number of studies around the world focusing on the role of remittances in households’ livelihood, this topic has not been well documented in Nigeria.
This paper investigates the effects of war on trade in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), an area at considerable risk for conflicts.