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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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Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African governments are often provided conflicting...
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Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted … projects in sub-Saharan Africa …
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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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Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining … 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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This paper analyses the way aid for agriculture and rural development in the global south has changed over time. It finds three key shifts. First, a change in funding priority that has seen aid commitments move to the social sectors. Second is a shift in priority within agriculture and rural...
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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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Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …
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