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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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Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance : a multilevel approach
McNabb, Kyle - 2017
This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628137
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Unofficial sovereign wealth funds and duration in power in Africa
Nawo, Larissa; Avom, Désiré; McNabb, Kyle; Nembot, Luc - 2019
This paper argues that in weak states, leaders whose hold on power is secured by the public fortune have turned to the use of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), especially unofficial SWFs, to cement their hold on power. Unofficial SWFs are private funds created from resource rents with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098407
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Tax revenue data in Africa : the Government Revenue Dataset and African Tax Outlook in comparison
Mbuyamba, Frankie; McNabb, Kyle - 2024
This paper compares two important sources of tax revenue statistics for African countries, namely the Africa Tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496434
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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