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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …
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biofuel strategy for Tanzania by limiting potential poverty reduction. Unlike previous studies, our integrated assessment …This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania … household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic incentives to convert unused lands to sugarcane-ethanol production …
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consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track … benefit from growth, except in Tanzania where growth is driven by the skill-intensive sectors. We also find significant losers … from growth in Tanzania where the rate of inflation is very high compared to the other countries. Our methodology finds …
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This paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by … government tax revenue and a neutral effect on income distribution and poverty. The results of the second reform find a positive … distribution, poverty indicators fell. …
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significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings in which no means-tested old-age pensions exist (such as Ghana and Tanzania …We use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South …
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We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …
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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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As in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has attained rapid economic growth accompanied by only marginal reductions … in poverty. Is this mismatch between high economic growth and less significant poverty reduction due to how growth and … poverty are measured and reconciled, or more substantial underlying factors? Applying the first order dominance approach to …
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implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied to artificial missing data for Tanzania and Zambia, and-using one …
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This paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the … decomposability properties of poverty measures based on a counting approach. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire and Foster … index with alternative poverty indices that are sensitive to inequality. Poverty is estimated using Demographic and Health …
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