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A large share of the population in Zambia is living below the national poverty line. To reduce poverty, in 2019, the … additional benefits to take account of the multidimensionality of poverty. We use the tax-benefit microsimulation model … MicroZAMOD to analyse the coverage and poverty impact of the current social protection system and to assess the extent to which …
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-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 indicate that Zambian agricultural policies reduce headcount poverty by 3-5 percentage …, poverty reduction with smaller government net expenditure. The results from these simulations suggest that it is feasible to …
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variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. Accounting for uncertainty, simulation results indicate that, on … of the population below the poverty line. Socio-economic impacts are much larger during major drought years, thus … remain the more binding constraint on economic development in Zambia, at least over the next few decades. …
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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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The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative … drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy … which such transfers become integrated within Zambia's distributional regime. …
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introduction of mandatory blending rates in 2014. Land and water constraints, however, limit domestic supply ability. Zambia, due … socio-economic impacts of bioethanol production in Zambia under both commercial and smallholder farming models, including …
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Given unsuccessful experiences to date in establishing large-scale investments for biofuels in Zambia, this paper …
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Expansion of biofuels production and consumption at the regional and national levels relies on both supportive energy prices and policy interventions. Despite enthusiasm for policy interventions to stimulate biofuel production in Southern African countries in the mid-2000s, the years since have...
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the biofuels industry in Zambia, as a land-abundant country, for the local and wider Southern African market. It …
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