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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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"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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access to financial services for some groups, especially the rural poor. The privatization of Tanzania's National Bank of …
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Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in both goods and services markets endogenously, through a Dixit … by specialists in Tanzania. The authors estimate that Tanzania will gain about 5.3 percent of the value of Tanzanian …. Decomposition exercises reveal that the largest gains to Tanzania will derive from liberalization of costly regulatory barriers that …
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Tanzania and possible tax policy responses in the short, medium, and long term. The results suggest that global commodity … households in the medium to long run. In comparison with nonpoor households, poor households in Tanzania may be relatively … production and consumption may help to reduce poverty. In contrast, policies discouraging agricultural production (such as export …
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"This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on … education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. Shocks to crop production and rainfall are used as …
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business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, the authors describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a … enterprise constraints in Tanzania mainly operate from the supply side. This suggests that, in particular, access to finance …
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two …
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