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Do Improved Biomass Cookstoves Reduce Fuelwood Consumption and Carbon Emissions? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia Using a Randomized Treatment Trial with Electronic Monitoring
Beyene, Abebe - 2017
This paper uses a randomized experimental design with real-time electronic stove temperature measurements and controlled cooking tests to estimate the fuelwood and carbon dioxide savings from an improved cookstove program in the process of being implemented in rural Ethiopia. Knowing more about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971541
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Estimating Poverty Among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Beltram, Theresa - 2020
. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … humanitarian organizations in Chad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835663
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Trade Policy to Catalyze Export Diversification : What Should Landlocked Fragile Countries Do? The Cases of Mali, Chad, and Niger
Pitigala, Nihal - 2019
The landlocked and fragile countries Mali, Niger, and Chad have suffered, to varying degrees, from Dutch Disease, with … linked to their connectivity with external markets, in the region and beyond. Thus, Mali, Niger, and Chad are first … their structures, and improving connectivity within and between markets, Mali, Niger, and Chad can better promote the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859504
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Leakage of Public Resources in the Health Sector : An Empirical Investigation of Chad
Wane, Waly - 2016
health sector in Chad, and its effects on the prices of drugs. The analysis uses data collected in Chad as part of a Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747608
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Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings : Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel
Delavallade, Clara - 2017
Although there is fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. This paper uses a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso to compare male and female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972222
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Vulnerability to Malnutrition in the West African Sahel
Alfani, Federica - 2017
the West African Sahel. The study uses knowledge of a child's birth and high resolution spatial and temporal distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972232
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Can We Measure Resilience? A Proposed Method and Evidence from Countries in the Sahel
Alfani, Federica - 2017
resilient. This method is applied to four countries in the Sahel. It is found that Niger, Burkina Faso, and Northern Nigeria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972234
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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2006
Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783436
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The Effect of Increasing Human Capital Investment on Economic Growth and Poverty : A Simulation Exercise
Collin, Matthew Edward - 2018
This paper examines the dynamic responses of income and poverty to increased investment in the human capital of new cohorts of workers, using a quantitative macroeconomic model with realistic demography. Compared to a baseline in which the rate of human capital investment currently observed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910532
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Assessing Urban Policies Using a Simulation Model with Formal and Informal Housing : Application to Cape Town, South Africa
Pfeiffer, Basile Fabrice - 2019
tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865460