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The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on how the government responded to the crisis is analysed while pinpointing to what extent there was a pass-through effect from international to domestic prices. The complexity of...
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The food price crisis revealed contradictions in creating food policy. Much of the common policy response can be explained by a benevolent, unitary government. To understand the variance between countries, however, requires understanding fractured government decision-making, path dependency, and...
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Over the past sixty years, most Asian countries have undergone relatively rapid agricultural transformations that helped jumpstart broader economic development. However, the changes have differed markedly in nature and speed across countries of the region. In much of East and Southeast Asia, the...
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This study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households are expected to adjust their food choices both in...
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surveys of health facilities in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, and the United Republic of Tanzania (survey …
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estimation method, this study examines the impact of a Single Customs Territory on Tanzania's exports from 2004 to 2018. The key … findings reveal that Tanzania's merchandise exports to East African Community countries have remained low under the Single …
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services along the Northern Corridor (the corridor from Mombasa, Kenya, to Uganda/Rwanda/Burundi/eastern DRC); the integration …
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into EAC markets. Kenya has continued to be the main trading partner for Tanzania in the EAC markets, and from 2015 onwards … the trade deficit with Kenya changed into a surplus, signalling improvement in the balance of trade. Tanzania has also … changes in Tanzania's trade patterns, which have remained primarily inter-industry rather than intra-industry, signalling a …
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The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania … programmes. We found that firms in Kenya and Zimbabwe have a higher number of male than female employees, while zones in Tanzania …
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Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts … in Tanzania. These results are in turn imposed on a highly-disaggregated, dynamic economy-wide model of Tanzania. We find … impact, food security in Tanzania appears likely to deteriorate as a consequence of climate change. The analysis points to a …
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