This paper uses comprehensive and long time series monthly food price data and a panel dyadic regression framework to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses on spatial market integration across a diverse set o
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Subnational public expenditures, short-term household-level welfare, and economic flexibility: Evidence from Nigeria
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Twenty-five years of living under contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world
The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy.