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eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland … change makes the challenges greater. Southern Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation …
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security despite such constraints. Genetically Modified Crops in Africa: Economic and Policy Lessons from Countries South of … skeptical of them. These and other findings in Genetically Modified Crops in Africa indicate ways biotechnology can contribute … to economic development in Africa south of the Sahara. …
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-EU free trade deal. Because of South Africa's prominence in the sub-region, implementation of this agreement will have an … impact not only on South Africa, but on all the SADC economies. This paper traces how this impact may be felt over time … separatelymodeling South Africa and the rest of southern Africa, the model can be used to evaluate how alternative SADC regional trade …
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success? This paper addresses that question based on panel data from South Africa." Authors' Abstract …
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"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first, the impact on adolescents, who may leave school in order to enter the labor market, and second, the impact on adult females who, upon the loss of a breadwinner, may decide to...
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that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold …
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nature of human capital production, using panel data from South Africa. Height-for-age Z-score is used as a measure of health …
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adolescents and on decisions by female adults to participate in the labor force in South Africa. The analysis focuses on that … period—1998–2004—when South Africa experienced excess mortality due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We find, first, that deaths of …
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"This paper addresses the potential effects of a world agricultural trade liberalization scenario on poverty and regional income distribution in Brazil, using an interregional applied general equilibrium (AGE) and microsimulation model of Brazil, tailored for income distribution and poverty...
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The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso … will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa’s population is …
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