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Optimum Fisheries Management under Climate VariabilityPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Illegal Fishing by Small-Scale Fishers in Ghana: Findings and Policy Suggestions
27 May 2014 Wisdom Akpalu The number of fishers and fishing vessels in the capture fishery sector, especially the artisanal marine fishery sub-sector...
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Experimentation and Co-ordination as Industrial Policy: Examples from Ethiopia and ChileMulu Gebreeyesus and Michiko Iizuka Industrial policy can be defined as the policies that stimulate specific economic activities and promote...
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UNU-WIDER in Ghana – An Interview with Wisdom Akpalu
23 April 2014 Wisdom Akpalu joined UNU-WIDER as a Research Fellow based in Ghana in the beginning of 2014. Prior to joining the Institute he was an...
Research Brief
How Can Aid Help Mitigate the Problem of Overfishing in AfricaDevelopment aid aimed at increasing productivity in the fisheries sector has at times had a negative effect by encouraging or facilitating overfishing. A percentage increase in capacity enhancing or bad subsidies in sub-Sahara Africa, all else being...
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The Fishery Performance IndicatorsPursuit of the triple bottom line of economic, community and ecological sustainability has increased the complexity of fishery management; fisheries assessments require new types of data and analysis to guide science-based policy in addition to...
Working Paper
Foreign Aid and Sustainable Fisheries Management in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefited from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades. In the 1990s when evidence emerged that most stocks were overcapitalized and overfished, the effectiveness of fisheries...
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Collective Action for Local-Level Effort RegulationPart of Book Group Behaviour and Development
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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the PoorWe study the diffusion of a capital intensive technology among a fishing community in south India and analyze the dynamics of income inequality during this process. We find that lack of asset wealth is an important predictor of delayed technology...
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Optimum Fisheries Management Under Climate VariabilityIn most coastal developing countries, the artisanal fisheries sector is managed as a common pool resource. As a result, such fisheries are overcapitalized and overfished. In Ghana, in addition to anthropogenic factors, there is evidence of rising...
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