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Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel; … - 2022

-level household datasets from a range of countries in Africa, we examine the drivers of agricultural risks, while exploring the role … of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household welfare, with a focus on farm households relative … to their non-farm counterparts. We demonstrate that the probability of experiencing risks related to agriculture is …

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Mozambique : bust before boom : reflections on investment surges and new gas

Roe, Alan - 2018

This paper is a sequel to an earlier paper that looked in broad terms at many of the issues that Mozambique faces today in managing its new extractive resources. The paper first describes the investment surge that has already been prompted by new gas discoveries in Mozambique. It then summarizes...

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Extractive industries and development : lessons from international experience for Mozambique

Roe, Alan - 2018

In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...

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Engaging with fragile and conflict-affected states : an alternative approach to theory, measurement and practice

Woolcock, Michael - 2014

The coherence and effectiveness of engagement with the world's 'fragile and conflictaffected states' - beyond ethical imperatives and geo-strategic considerations - turns on answers to two vexing questions. First, on what defensible basis is any given country, at any given historical moment,...

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Institutional change and persistence : what does the long-run evidence tell us?

Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal; Tagem, Abrams Mbu Enow - 2024

There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to know how institutions change. This paper provides a...

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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017

This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …

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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling : new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020

in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …

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A quest for institutional foundations towards inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nissanke, Machiko - 2015

The paper explores the paths towards building institutional foundations for inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Viewing institutional configurations as a system of multiple equilibria, the concepts of endogenous institutions and institutional changes are used to address the question of...

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Decentralization reforms in Mozambique : the role of institutions in the definition of results

Forquilha, Salvador - 2020

With the introduction of the economic reforms in the late 1980s, the opening up of the political arena and the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique. Different research developed in recent years shows that, as is the case in other countries in...

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Institutional reforms, private sector, and economic growth in Africa

Okey, Mawussé Komlagan Nézan - 2011

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies. We study the impact of positive changes in business environment indicators of the Doing Business project and the Economic Freedom Index of the Heritage Foundation on the private sector...

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