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Bédhat Atsebi, Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...

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Learning from the "Best": The Impact of Tax-Benefit Systems in Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Jara Tamayo, Holguer Xavier; Kwenda, … - 2018

Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These...

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

Ncube, Mthuli; Brixiova, Zuzana; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to …, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and … redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …

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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: An application to occupational allocation in Africa

Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - 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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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

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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

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Food price changes and poverty in Zambia : an empirical assessment using household microdata

Caracciolo, Francesco; Depalo, Domenico; Brambila … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 26 (2014) 4, pp. 492-507

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Non-tariff measures and household welfare : evidence from Ghana

Martey, Edward; Onumah, Edward E.; Onumah, Justina Adwoa; … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 2, pp. 1150-1169

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Spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 impacts on urban household incomes : Between- and within-city analyses of two African countries

Batana, Yélé Maweki; Nakamura, Shohei; Rajashekar, Anirudh - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 3, pp. 1918-1943

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Is the value added tax reform a source of food insecurity and food poverty? : the Burkina Faso case

Mamboundou, Pierre Nziengui - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 7, pp. 1334-1346

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