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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/09
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012
A propitiously timed household survey carried out in Mozambique over the period 2008-09 permits us to evaluate the short-to-medium run relationship between sudden shocks to food prices and child nutrition status. We link local price inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the...
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Who's the alien? Xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa
Duponchel, Marguerite - 2013
In May 2008, South Africa became the theatre of widespread violent attacks against undesirable 'outsiders'. Over 60 were killed, hundreds wounded, and tens of thousands displaced. This analysis aims at identifying the characteristics of the victims in an attempt to portray the 'alien' using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330138
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A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa
Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi; Hussain, M. Azhar; … - 2017
The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant and useful, the multidimensional poverty index is in...
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Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008-13
Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver - 2020
welfare measured in terms of food consumption. The analysis considers four sources of labour income in addition to farming …. Increasing diversification is associated with higher welfare, but there are differences by gender and activity type. Non …-employment is a welfare-increasing diversification strategy, especially in rural areas (although females benefit more than males in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424097
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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda
Pickbourn, Lynda; Caraher, Raymond; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2022
Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector. Given the importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322634
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Learning by exporting: The case of Mozambican manufacturing
Cruz, Antonio; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014
In this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context. Due to the presence of the born-global phenomenon among exporters, we address the endogeneity introduced by self-selection by combining a generalized BO approach with results from traditional...
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Gender difference in support for democracy in sub-Saharan Africa: Do social institutions matter?
Konte, Maty - 2014
Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...
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Consumption bundle aggregation in poverty measurement: Implications for poverty and its dynamics in Uganda
Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Ssekabira, Haruna; Aduayom, Dede H. - 2014
Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for the widely divergent diets throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494242
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What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique
Jones, Sam; Tvedten, Inge - 2018
This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different research approaches do not merely see the same poverty...
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Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approach
Gasior, Katrin; Navarro, Silvia; Pirttilä, Jukka; … - 2022
This paper examines the distributional impacts of agricultural policies versus those of cash transfers using a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020. The analysis also considers the behavioural impacts of input subsidies and social cash transfers. The results...
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