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This paper analyzes the impact of climate change on animal husbandry in Africa. It regresses the net revenue from raising animals in small and large farms across Africa on climate, soil, and other control variables to test the climate sensitivity of livestock. The study is based on a survey of...
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Mauritania is a resource-rich developing country. As many other African nations, it will not reach most of the … process. Over 2008-2015, the total cost of reaching the goals in Mauritania and the resulting financing gap stand at …
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Mauritania. Micro-level data from a 2014 household survey are used to evaluate the relationship between credit access, a range of …
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Mauritania. The sustainability assessment projects solvency and liquidity indicators -- public debt stock and gross financing … Mauritania maintains a strong growth performance and pursues sound policies to balance the budget and take advantage of … toward balanced budgets that ultimately would permit Mauritania to improve the solvency indicators, and thus the public debt …
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methodologies on estimating wealth accounting are used to study Mauritania's wealth, which is estimated to be between USD50 and USD … news for Mauritania, as sound management of these resources may ensure a constant flow of resources in the future and … 2006, meaning that the wealth of the country is being depleted. Mauritania has recently joined the ranks of lower …
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This paper develops the structural Ricardian method, a new approach to modeling agricultural performance using cross-sectional evidence, and uses the method to study animal husbandry in Africa. The model is intended to estimate the structure beneath Ricardian results in order to understand how...
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This paper uses quantitative methods to examine the way African farmers have adapted livestock management to the range of climates found across the African continent. The authors use logit analysis to estimate whether farmers adopt livestock. They then use three econometric models to examine...
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Trade preferences are expected to facilitate global market integration and offer the potential for rapid economic growth and poverty reduction for developing countries. But those preferences do not always guarantee sustainable external competitiveness to beneficiary countries and may risk...
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The authors explore how Latin American livestock farmers adapt to climate by switching species. They develop a multinomial choice model of farmer's choice of livestock species. Estimating the models across over 1,200 livestock farmers in seven countries, they find that both temperature and...
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Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes...
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