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Dramatically increased international agricultural commodity prices from 2007 to mid-2008 brought food inflation and greater incidence of poverty and malnutrition to developing countries. Higher food prices in 2011 threaten to repeat that crisis. The international community responded strongly to...
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Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power between spouses. The paper provides two main insights. First …
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Tanzania has been a relative success story in Africa in terms of political reform. While foreign aid has helped …
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Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …
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in Tanzania's capital city, focusing on its ethnic foundations and their malleability with regard to nationalism, asking …
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Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts … in Tanzania. These results are in turn imposed on a highly-disaggregated, dynamic economy-wide model of Tanzania. We find … impact, food security in Tanzania appears likely to deteriorate as a consequence of climate change. The analysis points to a …
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the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find …
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. Increasing diversification is associated with higher welfare, but there are differences by gender and activity type. Non …-agricultural wage employment is clearly beneficial, irrespective of gender, and has had relatively high growth. Non-agricultural self …
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social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these …In July 2020, the United Republic of Tanzania gained the status of a lower-middleincome country. This came after two … advancements in the legal frameworks and increasingly gender-responsive government policy plans, Tanzanian social policy delivery …
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Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial … inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression … lag behind in access to and utilization of formal financial services. Based on FinScope Tanzania survey data for 2017, the …
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