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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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The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...
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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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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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The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in...
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India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and affirmative action policies. In order to measure the social preferences of local decision makers, we conducted field experiments which simulated the selection of needy beneficiaries...
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since …
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countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This … Tanzania experienced positive investment and GDP growth from the late 1960s to 2007. But, until the mid-1980s, the impact of …
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