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This paper uses panel data at commune, household, and plot levels to study the causes and effects of agricultural land fragmentation in rural Viet Nam. We focus on both inter-farm fragmentation (the division of land into many small farms) and intra-farm fragmentation (the division of each farm...
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, poverty and environmental indicators will become increasingly valuable to both public and private decision makers. …
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the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … benefit leads to higher poverty and inequality compared to existing benefits. By contrast, in Uganda, a country with only one … notable social protection programme, all UBI scenarios reduce poverty and inequality. Differences between welfare estimates …
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Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that …
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overall change in income inequality or poverty. It concludes that UGAMOD is a useful tool for tax policy makers to evaluate … paper uses the UGAMOD microsimulation model to establish the tax incidence and welfare impact of excise duty in Uganda. The …
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Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed...
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This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Viet Nam from a number of different angles. The VARHS provides panel data at plot as well as household level and I use this rich data set to present descriptive results on...
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This study documents the local transformation of rural Vietnamese communes in 12 different provinces from 2006 to 2014. Three key areas are considered, namely occupational and agricultural choice; provision of public goods and infrastructure as well as land markets. While many areas showed great...
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per capita, while within-village inequality rose. The latter was associated mainly with rising landlessness induced by … households reduced inequality. We find a significant indirect effect of the tenancy reform (Operation Barga) on inequality, as it … (patta) program also reduced inequality by reducing landlessness. Land markets were highly active, and were mildly equalizing …
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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