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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
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Tanzania and possible tax policy responses in the short, medium, and long term. The results suggest that global commodity … households in the medium to long run. In comparison with nonpoor households, poor households in Tanzania may be relatively …
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contributor to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This paper uses data from a panel of women in rural Tanzania whose primary occupation is … agriculture. The analysis finds that following a negative shock (such as food insecurity), unmarried women are about three times … more likely to have been paid for sex. Regardless of marital status, after a shock women have more unprotected sex and are …
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. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis … exploits geographical, time, and cohort variations using shock intensity and distance from refugee camps to instrument …
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Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts … Tanzania. The authors find that, relative to a no-climate-change baseline and considering domestic agricultural production as … the principal channel of impact, food security in Tanzania appears likely to deteriorate as a consequence of climate …
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Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …
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This study explores the short-run transitions between poverty, vulnerability, and middle class, using synthetic panels constructed from multiple rounds of Colombia's Integrated Household Survey (in Spanish Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares). The paper reports results from two approaches to...
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of intra-generational economic mobility in the absence of panel data sets that follow individuals over time. The method … validates this method by sampling repeated cross-sections out of actual panel data sets from three countries in the Latin …; with few exceptions, all estimates fall within the 95 percent confidence intervals of the panel mobility. The quality of …
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Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more …
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labeled as "jobless growth." For the first time for Morocco, this paper uses quarterly panel data to investigate the question …
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