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agricultural farmers. In Zambia, these are rural, often vulnerable, smallholders. The authors investigate the connection between … the dynamics of the cotton sector and the dynamics of poverty and evaluate to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle for … poverty alleviation. They find that cotton can indeed act as an effective mechanism for increased household welfare. They also …
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Static and dynamic incidence analysis underscores the importance of Indonesia's public spending on primary health care to the poor. In education, evidence suggests that the poor are well represented in primary schooling and would benefit from increased public provisioning of secondary schooling
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"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child health and education. One hypothesis for this...
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Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between …
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"Coastal resources in Tanzania have come under increasing pressure over the past three decades, which has led to a …) are one tool for managing coastal and marine resources that have been increasingly used in Tanzania. Promotion of … address poverty concerns. However, empirical evidence on whether these AIGAs are successful in reducing pressure on fisheries …
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the economic slowdown of the early 1990s, recent growth in Tanzania has brought a decline in poverty, particularly in …"Although Tanzania experienced relatively rapid growth in per capita GDP in the 1995-2001 period, household budget … survey (HBS) data show only a modest and statistically insignificant decline in poverty between 1992 and 2001. To assess the …
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strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …
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"Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open economy computable general equilibrium comparative static model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of global free trade and a successful completion of the Doha Agenda...
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"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
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