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Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...
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Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power between spouses. The paper provides two main insights. First …
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Tanzania has been a relative success story in Africa in terms of political reform. While foreign aid has helped …
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Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …
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in Tanzania's capital city, focusing on its ethnic foundations and their malleability with regard to nationalism, asking …
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Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts … in Tanzania. These results are in turn imposed on a highly-disaggregated, dynamic economy-wide model of Tanzania. We find … impact, food security in Tanzania appears likely to deteriorate as a consequence of climate change. The analysis points to a …
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In the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection in Tanzania. Yet, in 2012, the government … Tanzania's development challenges and possible responses thereto. Thus, ideas play an important role in policy development … introduction of the pension fits poorly with dominant views on development and poverty reduction in Tanzania and is more likely to …
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Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to … grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social … in Tanzania. …
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established in Tanzania Mainland, and a lack of adequate financing is viewed as one of the main constraints. This paper employs a … data set from Tanzania-the Household Budget Surveys-and applies a taxbenefit microsimulation model for Tanzania (TAZMOD) to … explore possible options for designing and financing a universal old age pension in Tanzania Mainland. The findings of this …
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This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social insurance for wage workers in the household. We apply...
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