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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Farmer, William; Strzepek, Kenneth - 2013

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Political Institutions, Inequality, and Agricultural Growth : The Public Expenditure Connection

Allcott, Hunt; Lederman, Daniel; L??pez, Ram??n - 2012

This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce...

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Agriculture and National Welfare Around the World : Causality and International Heterogeneity Since 1960

Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Lederman, Daniel - 2012

from non-agricultural activities that are much greater than those derived from agriculture, whose impact is actually …

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Specialization and Adjustment during the Growth of China and India : The Latin American Experience

Lederman, Daniel; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Rubiano, Eliana - 2012

This paper examines the extent to which the growth of China and India in world markets is affecting the patterns of trade specialization in Latin American economies. The authors construct Vollrath's measure of revealed comparative advantage by 3-digit ISIC sector, country, and year. This measure...

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The Growth of China and India in World Trade : Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?

Lederman, Daniel; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Soloaga, Isidro - 2012

This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on the opportunity that China and India's markets have offered Latin American and Caribbean...

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Substitution between Foreign Capital in China, India, the Rest of the World, and Latin America : Much Ado about Nothing?

Cravino, Javier; Lederman, Daniel; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2012

This paper explores the impact of the emergence of China and India on foreign capital stocks in other economies. Using bilateral data from 1990-2003 and drawing from the knowledge-capital model of the multinational enterprises to control for fundamental determinants of foreign capital stocks...

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Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America during the Emergence of China and India : Stylized Facts

Cravino, Javier; Lederman, Daniel; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2012

In spite of the growing concerns about foreign direct investment being diverted from Latin America to China and India, the best available data show that Latin America has performed relatively well since 1997. Foreign capital stocks from OECD countries and the United States in particular in China...

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Export Entrepreneurship and Trade Structure in Latin America during Good and Bad Times

Fernandes, Ana M.; Lederman, Daniel; Gutierrez-Rocha, Mario - 2013

rates across sectors are quite similar but survival rates appear to be highest in agriculture; (2) the relative size of …

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