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eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland …
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The role of school quality in determining educational outcomes has received much research attention in the United States. However, in developing countries, where a significant part of the school age population never attends school, policymakers must consider both quality and quantity when...
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The role of school quality in determining educational outcomes has received much research attention in the United States. However, in developing countries, where a significant part of the school age population never attends school, policymakers must consider both quality and quantity when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997242
Few policies are as universally accepted as raising primary school enrolment in developing countries, but the policy levers for achieving this goal are not straight forward. This paper merges household survey data with detailed school supply characteristics from official sources, in order to...
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We introduce a maximum entropy approach to parameter estimation for computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The approach applies information theory to estimating a system of nonlinear simultaneous equations. It has a number of advantages. First, it imposes all general equilibrium...
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This paper uses cross section-time series data on 57 communities in Malawi to determine statistically the factors … also endogenizes population growth and prevailing land tenure institutions within the customary sector of Malawi. The … field surveys. The data show a deterioration of Malawi's natural resource base: declining yields, loss of tree cover, and …
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(WFP) with the government of Malawi in its Food for Assets and Development (FFASD) program....Poverty mapping is a useful …
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surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses. A poverty map for Malawi, developed by drawing upon … information from the 1997–98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey with the 1998 Malawi Population and Housing Census, provides …. Given the close association between welfare and food security in most Malawi households, such a detailed poverty map can be …
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"This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997 98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. The analysis developed … inequality estimates for Malawi's population. About 65 percent were unable to meet their basic needs, and poverty was deep and … pervasive. The distribution of household welfare was loosely examined within the context of the Malawi Poverty Reduction …
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informal and formal credit markets in Malawi. Households are found to be credit constrained, on average, both in the formal and … Malawi. Finally, formal and informal credit are found to be imperfect substitutes. In particular, formal credit, whenever …
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