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The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique

Barletta, Giulia; Castigo, Finório; Egger, Eva-Maria; … - 2021

This study assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty and inequality, we rely on macroeconomic impacts estimated by Betho...

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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa: A hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda

Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - 2013

Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a 'hybrid' approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...

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The political economy of food price policy: The case study of India

Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok - 2013

India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India's ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of G8 countries' call to avert economic recession, coupled...

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Capitalism and African business cultures

Taylor, Scott D. - 2014

Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked 'African culture' to a distinctive 'African capitalism', at odds with … genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist … African big business reveals that business and profit are culturally acceptable. Existing theories of African capitalism are …

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Global capitalism theory and the emergence of transnational elites

Robinson, William I. - 2010

The class and social structure of developing nations has undergone profound transformation in recent decades as each nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and financial system. National elites have experienced a new fractionation. Emergent...

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