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biomass and hydroelectricity development in that region. It focuses on political economy as characterized by: 1) the needs and …
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question have been rapidly converging towards a positive answer. We employ a simulation approach to (i) validate the coherence …
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Tribe (ST) borrowers are less likely to have loans approved. Through a simulation-based approach, we show that these lower …
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Poverty declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty. Using consumer price index and 2014/15 household budged survey data, we...
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COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …
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This paper revisits the link between exchange rate regimes and trade in the context of Africa's exchange rate … Africa's experience with that of the world. Our results suggest that both currency unions and direct pegs promote bilateral … trade in Africa vis-à-vis more flexible exchange rate regimes,and that their effect is almost double for the region than …
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Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also …
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Electoral coalitions are becoming increasingly popular among opposition parties in Africa because they offer many … in terms of their policy orientation. Based on a dataset spanning all opposition coalitions since 2000 in Africa …
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We use a gendered computable general equilibrium model to assess the implications of biofuels expansion in Mozambique. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all scenarios, biofuels accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty....
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Studies of aid effectiveness abound in the literature, often with opposing conclusions. Since most time-series studies use data from the exact same publicly available data bases, our claim here is that such differences in results must be due to the use of different econometric models and...
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