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Climate change, agriculture, and food security in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Farmer, Will; Strzepek, Ken; Thurlow, James - 2011
The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …. -- climate change ; agriculture ; food security ; crop model ; CGE model ; Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295552
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Are biofuels good for African development? : an analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010
Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662853
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Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in Mozambique
Hartley, Faaiqa; Seventer, Dirk van; Tostão, Emilio; … - 2016
implementation of blending mandates by 2020. South Africa is one of these countries. Using a dynamic recursive computable general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591910
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Aid effectiveness : opening the black box
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260998
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Assessing foreign aid's long-run contribution to growth in development
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2013
.g., poverty and infant mortality), and measures of economic transformation (e.g., share of agriculture and industry in value added …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767897
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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa : a hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - 2013
Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a 'hybrid' approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746505
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A stochastic simulation approach to estimating the economic impacts of climate change in Bangladesh
Thurlow, James; Dorosh, Paul; Yu, Winston H. - 2011
change ; uncertainty ; stochastic simulation ; CGE model ; agriculture ; Bangladesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490396
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Implication of accelerated agricultural growth for household incomes and poverty in Ethiopia: A general equilibrium analysis
Dorosh, Paul A.; Thurlow, James - In: Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy …
product (GDP) from 1998 to 2007 was less rapid than in other parts of the economy, agriculture also performed well, growing … accelerate growth and poverty reduction, Ethiopia’s national strategy affords an important role to agriculture as a source of … both growth and development for the broader economy. This is essential given that agriculture is an income source for most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253094