Showing 1 - 10 of 83
This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516700
Since 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the "Grain for Green" programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world. From 1999 to 2003, over 7.2 million hectares of agricultural land were retired under the programme. However, many farmers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009231282
Tanzania has been a relative success story in Africa in terms of political reform. While foreign aid has helped … accountability in decentralization and in public goods provision. -- Tanzania ; democratization ; accountability ; foreign aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521592
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416205
This paper suggests that an optimal local content policy in the context of flawed institutions is a more minimal one than those typically pursued by developing countries with recently discovered petroleum reserves. We argue that local content requirements need to be seen as a public expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379714
applied to two datasets from Tanzania to assess, among others, the short- and long-term impacts of infrastructure and market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347261
After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528633
the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging "new mineralizing Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228733
This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania … biofuel strategy for Tanzania by limiting potential poverty reduction. Unlike previous studies, our integrated assessment … sugarcane-ethanol in Tanzania. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233107
This paper provides an assessment of what aid has actually been doing in the area of environment in Tanzania through a …, the study notes that budget expenditure allocation to these activities is around 0.04 per cent of Tanzania's total … year (or nearly 10 per cent of the budget). Ultimately, aid money is critical for Tanzania, as over 90 per cent of funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338141