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Climate change, agriculture, and food security in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Farmer, Will; Strzepek, Ken; Thurlow, James - 2011
The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …. -- climate change ; agriculture ; food security ; crop model ; CGE model ; Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295552
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Are biofuels good for African development? : an analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010
Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662853
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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa : a hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - 2013
Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a 'hybrid' approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746505
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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021
This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We first estimate the impact of the crisis on disposable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650881
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Assessing the impact of an intervention to withhold value-added tax in Zambia
Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; Koivisto, Aliisa; Kumwenda, Andreya; … - 2023
Improving tax collection is essential if developing economies are to avoid over-reliance on external donor funds and loans. Revenue authorities in the Global South have recently adopted new policy tools to improve domestic revenue mobilization through taxes. One such new policy is a withholding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013548991
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Performance of tax-benefit systems amid COVID-19 crises in sub-Saharan Africa : a comparative perspective
Lastunen, Jesse; Shahir, Adnan; Rattenhuber, Pia; … - 2023
We examine the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated tax-benefit measures in seven sub-Saharan African countries, focusing on the onset of the crisis. We evaluate impacts on disposable incomes, considering variations across income groups; assess the effectiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390451
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A stochastic simulation approach to estimating the economic impacts of climate change in Bangladesh
Thurlow, James; Dorosh, Paul; Yu, Winston H. - 2011
change ; uncertainty ; stochastic simulation ; CGE model ; agriculture ; Bangladesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490396