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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010
Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on the other hand, view biofuels as a threat to food...
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Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries
Desai, Raj M.; Rudra, Nita - 2016
poverty line remain vulnerable to shocks that could place them back into poverty. These are the groups that require social …
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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa: Evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania
Vivien Houngbonon, Georges; Bauer, Arthur; Ndiaye, Abdoulaye - 2014
In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
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Land, environment and climate: Contributing to the global public good
Hertel, Thomas W. - 2013
, poverty and environmental indicators will become increasingly valuable to both public and private decision makers. …
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Producing biofuels in low-income countries: An integrated environmental and economic assessment for Tanzania
Branca, Giacomo; Felix, Erika; Maltsoglou, Irini; … - 2014
household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic incentives to convert unused lands to sugarcane-ethanol production … involve smallholders in feedstock production in order to reduce rural poverty, especially since our results indicate that … biofuel strategy for Tanzania by limiting potential poverty reduction. Unlike previous studies, our integrated assessment …
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The demand side of social protection: Lessons from Cambodia's labour rights experience
DiCaprio, Alisa - 2011
structures can effectively facilitate voice in fragile states. Cambodia's unusual social protection trajectory offers some …
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Poverty and land distribution: Evidence from a natural experiment
Keswell, Malcolm; Carter, Michael - 2011
While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...
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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa
Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2016
Sub-Saharan African exports of horticultural and processed agricultural products are growing in line with the major shift towards these products in world markets. Continued growth in these exports may be vitally important for expanding returns from African agriculture and for increasing its...
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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08: Learning some lessons
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...
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Is Kazakhstan vulnerable to natural resource curse?
Oskenbayev, Yessengali; Karimov, Aziz - 2013
This study utilizes panel data from 14 provinces of Kazakhstan and investigates the link between the point-source resources (oil and gas) and economic growth via institutional quality. Labour force migration from manufacturing to non-traded sector occurs as a result of wage increase in the...
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