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This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of age, using the Sudanese 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. It investigates the variation in inequality across and within regions, decomposing inequality into a portion that...
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Tanzania has undertaken important health sector reforms in the new millennium, and the most recent Health Sector … Strategic Plan (2021-26) lays out ambitious targets to achieve universal health coverage. Yet, women in Tanzania continue to … challenges disadvantaging women. The aims of this paper are two-fold. First, we examine the evolution of Tanzania's health policy …
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Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people live in the north and households find it difficult to hold back their productive assets during the lean season. This study investigates the impact of climate variability on...
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-scale national panel data from three African countries: Niger, Nigeria, and Tanzania. By combining monthly drought index data with a …
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This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly minimum temperatures in the growing season as an...
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farm household and individual labour force information, from LSMS-ISA Tanzania National Panel Survey, to examine the impact …-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania, the results suggest that using mobile phones to stimulate agricultural developments would improve …
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The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...
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sizeable and should motivate for action in terms of both mitigation and consideration and funding of potential adaptation …
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change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded policy-driven adaptation investments Ethiopia's GDP in the 2040s … will be up to 10 percent below the counterfactual no-climate change baseline. Suitably scaled adaptation measures could … change. -- CGE analysis ; global warming ; growth ; adaptation costs ; development …
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Maroc Vert, helps in agricultural adaptation to climate change and uncertainty. We develop a regionalized Morocco Computable … 2050, and introduced with respect to a 2003 baseline. With no adaptation, GDP impacts range from -3.1 per cent (worst … contraction in economic aggregates. Accounting for the adaptation measures in the Plan Maroc Vert, the GDP impacts from climate …
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