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dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and … 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. …
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This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including...
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An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial endowments of spouses improves efficiency only in...
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Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The …
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- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … and a hypothetical agricultural shock, in a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia. The results suggest that while …
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The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …
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insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …
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While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …
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