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This paper investigates whether the prospect of redistribution hinders the formation of efficiency-enhancing groups. An experiment is conducted in a Kenyan slum, Ugandan villages, and a UK university town and used to test, in an anonymous setting with no feedback, whether subjects join a group...
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This paper studies the cyclical aspects of fiscal policy in Sub-Saharan Africa countries during 1970?2014. It compares … since 2002 in Sub-Saharan Africa, with incipient signs of a shift toward acyclical or more countercyclical policies. The …-Saharan Africa. Official development assistance is found to exacerbate the procyclical stance of fiscal policy in the region, but the …
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for tax reform in Africa. The authors investigate the MCFs of hypothetical taxes in the informal sector and the impact of …
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Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers,and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to...
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crisis slowdown, Sub-Saharan Africa is in dire need to continue the growth momentum it experienced during the period of the … Africa Rising narrative. An emerging consensus in the empirical literature is that, under the right circumstances, an … development in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decades along four sectors (telecommunications, electric power, transportation …
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The objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition, hence allowing identification of the supply curve. The price of gold, one of many...
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Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about … dividend in the short run. The period of transition to peace is a particularly suitable time for radical policy reform, despite … that became ingrained in wartime. The peace dividend comes as a gradual recovery of confidence induces repatriation of …
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would dominate the losses for the other countries. The return on the new investments for Africa as a whole would be positive …
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This paper examines whether the choice of crops is affected by climate in Africa. Using a multinomial logit model, the …,000 farmers across 11 countries in Africa. The study finds that crop choice is very climate sensitive. For example, farmers select … sorghum and maize-millet in the cooler regions of Africa; maize-beans, maize-groundnut, and maize in moderately warm regions …
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This study examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa. It is based on a survey of more than 9 …,000 farmers in 11 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, and … located in relatively cool parts of Africa. The study also examined some simple climate scenarios to see how Africa would …
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