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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … interregional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...

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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as …

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Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...

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Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Ncube, Mthuli; Brixiova, Zuzana; Bicaba, Zorobabel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …

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Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa

Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...

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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …

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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between...

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Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and household time allocation decisions,...

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