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The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the … least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional standards, but the pattern of migration is … skewed toward the skilled and away from the unskilled. A development-friendly approach to migration for Zambia would strive …
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are important systematic country effects. Malawi, where maize is the main staple, emerges as exhibiting the most acute …
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Using bilateral migration flow data from the 2010 population census of Nepal, this paper provides evidence on the importance of public infrastructure and services in determining migration flows. The empirical specification, based on a generalized nested logit model, corrects for the non-random...
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Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper...
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Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. Among the policy lessons: 1) Nigeria and Zambia failed to unify and stabilize the …
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nonsalary cash grants to schools using a unique data set from Zambia. They find that household educational expenditures and …
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This report assesses the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia, using the Ricardian method. A …, soil, and socioeconomic variables as explanatory variables. There is one main cropping season in Zambia, lasting from …
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alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since …
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reliance has been increasing in recent years. Zambia's exports are also characterized by a high level of churning of firms and … study of the Zambian export sector. The analysis concludes that one of the main policy levers for unleashing Zambia's full … transactions, simplify export and certification requirements, and increase the predictability of Zambia's trade regime could be …
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This paper uses Zambia as a case study to assess empirically whether political interference in a low … sector in Zambia has experienced some significant developments since then. The paper uses data on contract from 2008 to 2011 … shielded from political interference. Zambia may be an isolated case but, so far, this model does not seem to have been able to …
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