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The High Frequency South Sudan Survey, implemented by the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration … and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … South Sudan, utilizing the Rapid Consumption Methodology combined with geo-spatial data for inaccessible survey areas …
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markets across South Sudan. The analysis reveals that markets in South Sudan are highly segmented. Price differences for … substantially following the imposition of the trade restrictions with Sudan. This increase tends to hurt disproportionately the poor …
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paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer the question: Can the international community change the grassroots …
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Improvements in infrastructure across Sudan in recent years have contributed 1.7 percentage points to the country's per … other sector to growth in Sudan. Raising the infrastructure endowment of all parts of Sudan to that of the region's best … performer -- Mauritius -- could boost annual growth by about 3.5 percentage points. Sudan has heavily invested in infrastructure …
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Newly independent South Sudan faces a challenge in making its own way in infrastructure development. Despite earning $6 … billion in oil revenues since 2005, South Sudan's spending has not been proportional to its income, but rather has lagged … behind North Sudan's development of infrastructure and social support. South Sudan benefitted from strong donor support …
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economic, social, physical, and mental well-being. This study assesses the impact of the post-2013 conflict in South Sudan on …
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Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, associated with a narrowing of the outcome...
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Agglomeration boosts economic growth. A vast literature has empirically assessed the effects of agglomeration by estimating the city population elasticity on wages. This conventional approach is not necessarily suitable for analyzing urbanization at the early stage in developing countries, where...
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Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social safety net intervention (PSNP) operates. Even though...
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This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and...
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