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Differences in the economic lifecycle between countries at different levels of development suggest that there may be differences between sub-populations within countries, particularly where the sub-populations have different levels of income. Given stark inequalities by race in South Africa,...
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COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime years and future lifetime years of work ensuing from a hypothetical 25,000 excess deaths in Italy, whose affluent population is one of the world's oldest, with those in Kenya,...
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Southern African countries' interest in biofuel is due of its rural development potential. Finding models to optimize this benefit is therefore paramount. High-energy-density crops with low perishability allow farmers to grow small quantities on existing lands. Highly perishable, low-density...
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This paper describes the gaps and limitations in the data available on urban populations for many low- and middle-income nations and how this limits the accuracy of international comparisons - for instance of levels of urbanization and of the size of city populations. It also discusses how the...
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Tanzania ranks among the leading stars of the 'African growth miracle', but a sector that has been largely absent from … the Tanzania success story is industry. Although growth of manufacturing has outpaced economic growth over the past decade …, relative to international norms and its ambitious plans to achieve middle-income status Tanzania suffers from a 'manufacturing …
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undermining it. Analysing newly available quarterly fiscal data on local revenues in Tanzania, I show that intergovernmental …
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-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania. The paper provides an account of the current tax-benefit system in Tanzania and introduces the … feasibility of producing such a model for Tanzania with reference to personal income tax, indirect taxes, and contributory and non …
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We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi …
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This paper compares and contrasts the economic situation in Tanzania during the resurgence of gold and diamond …
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We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted … investments in Ghana and Tanzania are used to illustrate policy impact and the state-capital relations that shape policy …
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