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Community or interpersonal support as a critical source of livelihood sustenance in the Global South can exhibit unequal dynamics. An understanding of these practices is primarily tied to the conceptual space of poverty or small communities. Less is known about how social support systems might...
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of South Africa has shown the most interest in wind power investment. For this reason, we focus parts of the study on … issues, therefore identifying areas of high and low wind power reliability in southern Africa at different time scales. After … wind resource in the country. The study finds that, although wind power density is high in South Africa compared to its …
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We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and …
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COVID-19 has created a trade crisis in Southern Africa, with a dramatic slowdown in cross-border trade. The crisis … Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to address and contribute to greater levels of trade within Africa. This working paper looks … Southern Africa and the position of the SADC cluster of ministers of trade and transport are also considered. The paper argues …
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With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in...
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on local revenues in sub-Saharan Africa, a region where local fiscal capacity is limited and endogenously determined by … of many rural districts in Africa - intergovernmental transfers facilitate local revenue generation instead of …
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-Saharan Africa. Given the importance of the state in industrial policy, this paper considers the implications for these discussions …
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The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
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A key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time. In need to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a trade-off between decreasing tax rates (making formalizing potentially more attractive) and alternatively raising tax...
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governance and individual tax compliance in sub-Saharan Africa. We employ a logistic regression model and use Round 7 of the …
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