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-seeking lobbying efforts by poor and rich constituencies. We recognize taxpayers' inter-dependency as reflected in increased evasion …
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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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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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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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Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms...
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achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …
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