Project Analysis and Diagnostic Tools

Trade Capacity Building M&E

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconTrade Capacity Building M&E.pdf
Source: 
Jeremy Schanck (TCBoost DCOP)
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
November 10, 2010
A PowerPoint presentation delivered at the USAID Trade and Investment Training in Bangkok, Thailand by Jeremy Schanck examining institutional reform monitoring.

Factors Affecting Economic Growth in Ghana

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application/pdf iconFactors Affecting Economic Growth in Ghana.pdf
Source: 
Sibley International
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
October 31, 2008

This report reviews USAID's activities in Ghana and focuses on the factors affecting USAID's assistance efforts there. Finally, it offers a prioritized program development framework.

Best Practices Project Design and Implementation

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconBest Practices Project Design and Implementation.pdf
Source: 
Weidemann Associates, Inc.
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
June 16, 2009

The purpose of this summary is to provide a summary list of resources that are available to international development practitioners in selecting enterprise growth initiatives based on best practices.

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Dealing with Licenses.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

A number of industry-specific licenses can affect effective agribusiness operations; from seed and fertilizer certification, to farm equipment import and distribution, and health and food safety licenses. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments for starting an agribusiness. 

 

 

AgCLIR Chapter: Closing A Business

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A farmer deciding, after two rejected shipments, that the risks of producing green onions for the global market are too great and that the production of sweet potatoes for the local market would be better is effectively “closing the business” of green onion cultivation and starting another. The losses from the green onion business have already been absorbed by the household enterprise and sweet potato planting materials can be readily acquired. Such easy entry and exit characterize many agricultural enterprises in the developing world.

AgCLIR Chapter: Enforcing Contracts

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Contracts are legally recognized and enforceable agreements between two or more parties for the exchange of goods or services for something of value in return—“consideration.” Consideration is typically money or other assets but can consist of almost anything, even a promise not to do something. The more informal an agricultural enterprise, the more likely contracts will be unwritten (oral) and/or enforced by social and community norms and processes.

AgCLIR Chapter: Assessing Marketing Infrastructure

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Most market-friendly governments around the globe seek to enable businesses by easing their access to credit and legal services, cutting bureaucratic red tape, and implementing consistent and market-friendly trade policy.  In the agricultural sector, because of the direct links to rural poverty and food security, governments also recognize the need to invest in the industry and boost production through provision of cost-cutting inputs and services.  However, the most important provision to enable sector-wide growth is not private goods (targetin

AgCLIR Chapter: Trading across Borders

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The principle that trade and investment are important for economic growth is widely accepted. By trading with other countries and attracting foreign investment, nations can take advantage of global market forces—competition, human resource development, technology transfer, and innovation generate growth and reduce poverty. The agribusiness sector encompasses half of the world’s labor force and 40 percent of consumer purchases.

AgCLIR Chapter: Paying Taxes

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The fairness and efficiency of a tax system has significant impact on whether entrepreneurs (particularly smaller and micro enterprises) and individual citizens choose to join the formal sector. If they believe that the tax system is fair and that the state will use their tax revenues wisely, they are more likely to participate.

AgCLIR Chapter: Protecting Investors

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Agricultural enterprises have a number of options for raising capital to pay for their inputs, equipment, and other costs of growing a business, most of which are appropriate instead of—or in addition to—seeking a loan from a bank or other lender. Of course, each option carries not only the promise of economic gain, but also the risk of loss.

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