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poverty. This paper intends to quantitatively assess the welfare implications of rising food prices in rural Tanzania, by … the complete demand system using the QUAIDS model, and calculate welfare and poverty indices. Our results indicate that … are more affected than middle-income and rich households. The food prices have a major impact on overall poverty and …
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forest cover change and alleviate poverty. We examine protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon using high-resolution satellite …
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We estimate local effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) programs on poverty in Costa Rica between 2007 …, this reflects countervailing forces. We find that PES coverage increases poverty in low-slope places and decreases poverty … increased or decreased poverty substantially in Costa Rica. Policymakers could increase the impact on poverty by focusing their …
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forest cover change and alleviate poverty. We examine protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon using high-resolution satellite …
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We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
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Despite the global environmental benefits of increasing the amount of protected areas, how these conservation policies affect the well-being of nearby individuals is still under debate. Using household surveys with highly disaggregated geographic references, we explored how national parks affect...
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policies and poverty reduction strategies. It empirically verifies the existence of a poverty demography trap by analyzing … between GDP and population growth, highlighting poverty and demographic variables in Africa and in Tanzania. The number of … classified with selected poverty indicators (undernutrition and malnutrition; monetary expenditure; and access to land, clean …
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, focusing on the roles of poverty, land tenure security, and market access. Unlike most other studies, we used a double … different processes. Poverty-related factors seem to have a mixed effect on both the adoption and intensity decisions. While a …
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