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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana

McMillan, Margaret S. - 2019

We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …

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When Knowledge is not Enough : HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana

Levinsohn, James A. - 2006

increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …

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Stuck in the Middle? Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Botswana

McCaig, Brian - 2015

This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by … that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

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Realizing the gains from trade : export crops, marketing costs, and poverty

Balat, Jorge F. - 2007

"This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty....

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Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor : Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Dupas, Pascaline - 2020

Using data from an 18-month randomized trial, we estimate large and sustained impacts on water purification and child health of a program providing monthly coupons for free water treatment solution (diluted chlorine) to households with young children. The program is more effective and much more...

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Realizing the Gains From Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

Balat, Jorge - 2007

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465255

A Theory of Demand Shocks

Lorenzoni, Guido - 2006

This paper presents a model of business cycles driven by shocks to consumer expectations regarding aggregate productivity. Agents are hit by heterogeneous productivity shocks, they observe their own productivity and a noisy public signal regarding aggregate productivity. The shock to this public...

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The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Revisited : Finite Lives and Cyclical Variation in Idiosyncratic Risk

Storesletten, Kjetil - 2000

This paper investigates the welfare costs of business cycles in a heterogeneous agent, overlapping generations economy which is distinguished by idiosyncratic labor market risk. Aggregate variation arises both in terms of aggregate productivity shocks and countercyclical variation in the...

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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration

Lagakos, David - 2018

This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that...

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