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The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction - an Empirical Perspective

Christiaensen, Luc - 2016

as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely … to be smaller than that of non-agriculture (though not because of inherently inferior productivity growth), the indirect …

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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

Havlík, Petr - 2017

This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...

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Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the...

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Controlling Tropical Deforestation : An Analysis of Alternative Policies

Glewwe, Paul - 2017

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How Integrated are Tropical Timber Markets?

Padoan, Pier Carlo - 2017

The tropical timber market is characterized by multiple species, multiple products, and regional patterns of trade and production. In such a market, finding a representative price is a difficult and perhaps an irrelevant task. So Varangis conducted tests to see whether prices from different...

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Cabinet Size and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wehner, Joachim - 2020

There is frequent public and media concern over the cost of bloated cabinets in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Scholarship on elite clientelism links cabinet positions with corruption and practices that undermine sound policy making. This paper presents new data on the number of ministers...

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Borrow with Sorrow? The Changing Risk Profile of Sub-Saharan Africa's Debt

Calderón, César - 2020

In the post-global financial crisis period, the financing of countercyclical policies led not only to a reduction in the fiscal surpluses across Sub-Saharan African countries, but also an increase in their levels of indebtedness. Although public debt for the region in 2018 was still below that...

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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César - 2020

This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade...

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Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change : A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa

AASSOULI, Dalal - 2018

The climate change challenge and the growth of the Islamic finance industry, together with the increase in socially responsible investing, could position green sukuk as a key instrument for financing clean energy and resilient infrastructure projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency...

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The Cost and Benefits of Tax Treaties with Investment Hubs : Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

Beer, Sebastian - 2018

This paper investigates the costs and benefits of concluding double tax treaties with investment hubs. Based on a sample of 41 African economies from 1985-2015, the results suggest that signing treaties with investment hubs is not associated with additional investments; yet, these treaties tend...

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