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Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child … poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …
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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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The animal feed to poultry value chain in the southern African region has seen rapid demand growth owing to increases in urbanization. This growth has been accompanied by the increase in co-ordinated investments by large, predominantly South African, firms across the region. We examine the...
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conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid …
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Expansion of biofuels production and consumption at the regional and national levels relies on both supportive energy prices and policy interventions. Despite enthusiasm for policy interventions to stimulate biofuel production in Southern African countries in the mid-2000s, the years since have...
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innovation in telecommunications services. In this paper, regulatory models in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are …
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Low levels of broadband penetration combined with poor quality of services present a challenge to growth and development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). This paper performs a comparative analysis of the competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in four SADC...
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paper is a synthesis of key findings of studies undertaken in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe on the expansion …
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, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Key findings are that certain routes, such as that between Lusaka and …
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repositories in Harare (Zimbabwe), Zomba (Malawi), Grahamstown (South Africa), London, and Oxford (UK), the paper casts light on …
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