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Homepage:http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/srstaff/benins.asp
Workplace:International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2018

  1. Government expenditures in Kenya, 1950–2014: Determinants and agricultural growth effects
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads
  2. Has IFPRI’s research decentralization strategy made a difference? An econometric study of African and Asian Countries, 1981–2014
    Impact assessments, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads
  3. The CAADP inaugural Biennial Review and Africa Agricultural Transformation Scorecard: Results and areas for improvement
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (1)

2017

  1. The effects of a CAADP-compliant budget on poverty and inequality in Ghana
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads

2016

  1. Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants
    IFPRI synopses, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (5)
  2. Impacts of CAADP on Africa’s agricultural-led development
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (2)
  3. Returns to agricultural public spending in Ghana: Cocoa versus noncocoa subsector
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (1)

2015

  1. After the ten percent: Moving agriculture in Ghana
    GSSP policy notes, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads
  2. Returns to agricultural public spending in Africa south of the Sahara
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (4)
  3. TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE SOIL FERTILITY STRATEGY IN GHANA
    Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Papers, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP) Downloads View citations (1)

2014

  1. Aid effectiveness in Ghana: How’s the L’Aquila food security initiative doing?
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (3)
  2. Aid effectiveness: How is the L’Aquila food security initiative doing?
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (2)
  3. Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural research and development investments in southern Africa
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (2)
  4. Identifying agricultural expenditures within the public financial accounts and coding system in Ghana: Is the ten percent government agriculture expenditure overestimated?
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (8)
  5. Impact of Ghana’s agricultural mechanization services center program
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (5)

2013

  1. Revisiting agricultural input and farm support subsidies in Africa: The case of Ghana’s mechanization, fertilizer, block farms, and marketing programs
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (10)

2012

  1. Public Expenditures in Agriculture in Mozambique: What Investments are Required for Technical Change, and What Drives Investment Decisions?
    Mozambique Working Paper, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies
    Issue briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (50)

2011

  1. Impact of Uganda's National Agricultural Advisory Services program
    Research reports, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (7)

2010

  1. Institutional and public expenditure review of GhanaÂ’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (2)

2009

  1. Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Do External Grants to District Governments Discourage Own Revenue Generation? A Look at Local Public Finance Dynamics in Ghana, World Development, Elsevier (2012) Downloads View citations (39) (2012)
  2. Policy Options for Improving Market Participation and Sales of Smallholder Livestock Producers: A case study of Ethiopia
    2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China, International Association of Agricultural Economists Downloads View citations (12)
  3. Public expenditure and institutional review: Ghana’s ministry of food and agriculture
    GSSP working papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (1)
  4. Public expenditures and agricultural productivity growth in Ghana
    2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China, International Association of Agricultural Economists Downloads View citations (35)

2008

  1. Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Malawi
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (25)
  2. Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Uganda
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (24)
  3. Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Zambia
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (24)
  4. Estimating household income to monitor and evaluate public investment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (6)
  5. Market Institutions and Transaction Costs InfluencingTrader Performance in Live Animal Marketing in Rural Ethiopia
    Research Reports, International Livestock Research Institute Downloads View citations (3)
  6. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
    IWMI Working Papers, International Water Management Institute Downloads View citations (3)
  7. Reaching middle-income status in Ghana by 2015: Public expenditures and agricultural growth
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (6)

2007

  1. Assessing the impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in the Uganda rural livelihoods
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (12)
  2. Benefit-cost analysis of Uganda’s clonal coffee replanting program: An ex-ante analysis
    IFPRI discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (2)

2006

  1. Determinants of change in household level of consumption and poverty in Uganda, 1992/93 - 1999/00
    DSGD discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads
  2. From "best practice" to "best fit": A framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services worldwide
    FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (18)
    Also in DSGD discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2006) Downloads View citations (22)
    EPTD discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2006) Downloads View citations (15)
  3. From "best practice" to "best fit": a framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services
    Research briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (44)
  4. Land Markets and Agricultural Land Use Efficiency and Sustainability: Evidence from East Africa
    2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia, International Association of Agricultural Economists Downloads View citations (4)
  5. Strategic priorities for agricultural development in Eastern and Central Africa
    Research reports, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (25)
  6. Trader Behaviour and Performance in Live Animal Marketing in Rural Ethiopian Markets
    2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia, International Association of Agricultural Economists Downloads

2005

  1. Livestock marketing in the Ethiopian highlands: Changesin structure and conduct since 1991 in
    Research Reports, International Livestock Research Institute Downloads
  2. Trader behaviour and transactions costs in live animal marketing in Ethiopian highland markets
    Research Reports, International Livestock Research Institute Downloads View citations (1)

2003

  1. Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Household Farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands
    Working Papers, Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA) Downloads View citations (7)
    Also in ESA Working Papers, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) (2003) Downloads View citations (9)
    EPTD discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2003) Downloads View citations (2)
  2. THE DETERMINANTS OF CEREAL CROP DIVERSITY ON FARMS IN THE ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS
    2003 Annual Meeting, August 16-22, 2003, Durban, South Africa, International Association of Agricultural Economists Downloads View citations (8)

2001

  1. IMPACTS OF LAND RESDISTRIBUTION ON LAND MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS
    2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) Downloads View citations (15)
  2. Strategies for sustainable agricultural development in the Ethiopian Highlands
    EPTD discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (38)
    See also Journal Article Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Ethiopian Highlands, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2001) Downloads View citations (36) (2001)

1999

  1. ECONOMIES OF SCALE, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, AND THE DEMAND FOR FOOD: THE MISSING LINK
    1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) Downloads

Journal Articles

2015

  1. Impact of Ghana's agricultural mechanization services center program
    Agricultural Economics, 2015, 46, (S1), 103-117 Downloads View citations (34)
  2. Public Investments in and for Agriculture
    The European Journal of Development Research, 2015, 27, (3), 337-352 Downloads View citations (28)

2012

  1. Do External Grants to District Governments Discourage Own Revenue Generation? A Look at Local Public Finance Dynamics in Ghana
    World Development, 2012, 40, (5), 1054-1067 Downloads View citations (39)
    See also Working Paper Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana, IFPRI discussion papers (2009) Downloads View citations (6) (2009)
  2. Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (Naads) program of Uganda: Considering Different Levels of Likely Contamination with the Treatment
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012, 94, (2), 386-392 Downloads View citations (4)

2011

  1. Returns to spending on agricultural extension: the case of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program of Uganda
    Agricultural Economics, 2011, 42, (2), 249-267 View citations (43)

2008

  1. Market Institutions and Transaction Costs Influencing Trader Performance in Live Animal Marketing in Rural Ethiopian Markets
    Journal of African Economies, 2008, 17, (5), 747-764 Downloads View citations (4)

2006

  1. Collective action in community management of grazing lands: the case of the highlands of northern Ethiopia
    Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 11, (1), 127-149 Downloads View citations (5)

2005

  1. Development of Land Rental Markets and Agricultural Productivity Growth: The Case of Northern Ethiopia
    Journal of African Economies, 2005, 14, (1), 21-54 View citations (23)

2004

  1. Policies Affecting Changes in Ownership of Livestock and Use of Feed Resources in the Highlands of Northern Ethiopia
    Journal of African Economies, 2004, 13, (1), 166-194 View citations (3)
  2. The economic determinants of cereal crop diversity on farms in the Ethiopian highlands
    Agricultural Economics, 2004, 31, (2-3), 197-208 Downloads View citations (77)

2003

  1. Policies for Livestock Development in the Ethiopian Highlands
    Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2003, 5, (3), 491-510 Downloads View citations (7)

2002

  1. Measurement and sources of technical efficiency of land tenure contracts in Ethiopia
    Environment and Development Economics, 2002, 7, (3), 507-527 Downloads View citations (24)

2001

  1. Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Ethiopian Highlands
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2001, 83, (5), 1231-1240 Downloads View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper Strategies for sustainable agricultural development in the Ethiopian Highlands, EPTD discussion papers (2001) Downloads View citations (38) (2001)

Edited books

2016

  1. Agricultural productivity in Africa: Trends, patterns, and determinants
    IFPRI books, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Downloads View citations (8)

Chapters

2019

  1. Public expenditure on agriculture and its impact
    Chapter 7 in Ghana’s economic and agricultural transformation: Past performance and future prospects, 2019 Downloads

2007

  1. Livestock Productivity in Developing Countries: An Assessment
    Elsevier Downloads View citations (16)
 
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