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This paper examines the relationship between spatial and economic mobility in Uganda using longitudinal data from 2005 … through 2012. The study relies on a detailed panel tracking survey and exploits exogenous variation in the spatial intensity …
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This paper estimates the profitability of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic evidence on the yield … Uganda. The paper also examines the impact of other factors that could affect input adoption, by using a relatively long … panel data set spanning 12 years. The analysis finds evidence that enhanced access to economic markets and past weather …
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the sector. The analysis uses newly available household panel data from Uganda for 2005-2006 and 2009-2010 to examine (a … study examines credit for smallholder agriculture in the context of Uganda, where agriculture is about 35 percent of gross … domestic product, most farmers are smallholders, and the country has introduced policies since 2005 to extend credit access to …
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, Pakistan, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda) -- this paper conducts a systematic assessment of … associated with the quality of child nutrition. If using these food security indicators as proxy measures for the underlying …
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Uganda. The results are suggestive that promoting (small) livestock ownership has the potential to affect human nutrition in … rural Uganda, but further research is needed to estimate more precisely the direction and size of these effects …
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country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using national data from the Uganda National … Panel Survey for 2009/10 and 2010/11, the gap before controlling for endowments was estimated to be 17.5 percent. Panel data … strong in Uganda that smaller female-managed plots have a net endowment advantage of 12 percent, revealing a larger …
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, administered concurrently with a standard household survey in Uganda to analyze the nature and incidence of responses, the …
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demonstrates that these bounds are reasonably informative, using the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics where the panel structure …
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This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 … high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence …
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Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked acceleration between 2009/10 and 2011/12. This paper enquires into important aspects of income mobility between 2004/05 and 2011/12, based on new statistical methods to convert the three...
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