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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 …

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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 …

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Income redistribution in Latin America : a microsimulation approach

Arancibia Romero, Cristina; Dondo, Mariana; Jara, H. Xavier - 2019

We analyse the effect of taxes and benefits on income distribution of six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Our analysis makes use of tax-benefit microsimulation models based on harmonized household representative survey data and developed...

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The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodriguez, David; Jara, H. Xavier; Dondo, Mariana; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...

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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...

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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...

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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2019

Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing …, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We …

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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 …

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