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Diamonds are Not Forever : Botswana Medium-Term Fiscal Sustainability
Kojo, Naoko C. - 2010
This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135944
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957710
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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017
sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972052
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Women's Movements, Plural Legal Systems and the Botswana Constitution : How Reform Happens
Hasan, Tazeen - 2017
. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973802
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Botswana's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Dominguez, Carolina - 2017
Infrastructure made a net contribution of just over two percentage points to Botswana's improved per capita growth … boost annual growth by about 1.2 percentage points. Botswana has made significant infrastructure progress in recent years … and load shedding. Botswana's international transport connections and Internet connectivity also lag behind those of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975603
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Diamonds are Not Forever : Botswana Medium-Term Fiscal Sustainability
Kojo, Naoko C. - 2017
This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976285
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Rural Roads, Poverty, and Resilience : Evidence from Ethiopia
Nakamura, Shohei - 2019
This study analyzes the impacts of the recent rural road development in Ethiopia on welfare and economic outcomes. The identification of the impacts relies on a difference-in-differences matching approach, taking advantage of the nationally representative household survey and the original road...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889426
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Impact of Drought on Poverty in Somalia
Pape, Utz Johann - 2019
Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895211
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The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Wieser, Christina - 2019
This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865468
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Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Malawi
McCarthy, Nancy - 2017
Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty in rural Malawi. This study measures vulnerability to consumption shortfalls and analyzes its sources using a two-period panel of 2,789 households, drawn from the 2010 Third Integrated Household Survey and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968632