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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280240
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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …-fundamentalist approach to African development, but the short-term imperative of reducing poverty necessitates further agricultural investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319945
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Long-term effects of land reform on human capital accumulation: Evidence from West Bengal
Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2011
We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280065
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Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust
Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424063
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319772
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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319809
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Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?
Shepherd, Andrew; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013
preparation if poverty is to be taken more seriously by donors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319829
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Conflicting measures of poverty and inadequate saving by the poor: The role of status-driven utility function
Marjit, Sugata - 2012
nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319857
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Variable populations and the measurement of poverty and inequality: A selective overview
Subramanian, S. - 2012
involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319897
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary - 2012
poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319934