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Publications
Jasson Urbach:
 | Fixing Famine: How Technology and Incentives Can Help Feed Africa
June 10, 2009 Mercatus Policy Series Daniel Sacks,
Jasson Urbach | | This Policy Comment presents four types of simple technologies that can make small plots of lands more productive and increase farmers’ outputs and incomes: hybrid and genetically modified seeds, greenhouses, irrigation, and plug seedlings. If African governments reduce barriers against these technologies, the people can mitigate hunger and begin to address the larger systemic problems.
|  | Development Goes Wireless
June 1, 2007 Journal Articles Jasson Urbach | | The introduction of mobile phones has helped to alleviate poverty and improve the lives of the people of Botswana. Economic efficiency has been improved through lower communication costs, increased, labor mobility, and wider access to both banking facilities and information on market prices. Liberalization of the telecommunications market is needed to ensure that the sector remains responsive to end-user needs. |
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