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Road construction has often been viewed as the precursor to deforestation, especially in tropical forests. Traditional responses to such threats have been reactive, with attempts to mitigate impacts through physical measures, or the establishment of protected areas. These approaches often have...
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This study examines the impact of climate change on crop farming in Cameroon. The country's economy is predominantly … development. Fluctuations in national income are due not merely to the decline in world demand for Cameroon's traditional … study reaffirms that agriculture in Cameroon is often limited by seasonality and the availability of moisture. Although …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of HIV infection and associated sexual behaviors using data from the first five …
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Most analyses of the determinants of HIV infection are performed at the individual level. The recent Demographic and … paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two …
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The authors aim to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the … recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty, with the headcount index falling from 53 …-reducing for Cameroon. For the whole country, the estimate of the net number of people who are lifted out of poverty is 22 …
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in Cameroon. In 2008, World Bank staff successfully concluded preparation on a project to support the Government of … Cameroon to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability of public finance management. The US$15 million project … concurrently, other Bank staff initiated a low-profile, technical assistance project to improve performance in Cameroon's Customs …
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Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor force participation hovered around 18 percent. Analysis...
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This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other...
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The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...
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Despite large amounts invested in rural roads in developing countries, little is known about their benefits. This paper derives an expression for the willingness-to-pay for a reduction in transport costs from the canonical agricultural household model and uses it to estimate the benefits of a...
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