Consistent with the original proposal (dated April 14, 2005), the grant supported the participation in the above conference of a number of West African meteorologists, the majority of whom will be supporting the ARM Mobile Facility deployment in Niamey in various ways during 2006.The following...

Die vorliegende Dissertation will einen Beitrag zur Messung von Krankheitsbelastung, Einkommensstruktur und Ausbildungsrenditen im ländlichen Westafrika leisten. Ihr Forschungsgegenstand ist die Erhebung und Analyse von Mortalitäts-, Morbiditäts- und sozio-ökonomischen Daten im...

This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main results indicate that rates of return rise by level of...

Die Verstaatlichungspolitik der sozialistischen Regierung spaltet die bolivianische Gesellschaft. Generell ist der Andenstaat ein Land voller Gegensätze: Das Nebeneinander unterschiedlicher Ethnien, starke ökonomische und regionale Disparitäten und die trotz Ressourcenreichtum verbreitete...

This article employs the superlative Fisher and Trnqvist indexes for exact decomposition of growth in nominal revenues and costs. The findings confirm the well-known result that these indexes very closely approximate each other, implying that the mathematically simpler and computationally easier...

This paper briefly presents the results of a total factor productivity (TFP) study of South African commercial agriculture, for 1947-1997, and illustrates some potential pitfalls in rate of return to research (ROR) calculations. The lag between R&D and TFP is analyzed and found to be only 9...

Abstract: A multiple frame survey design was used to study establishment and household characteristics and to make inferences about the population of interest. The methodology required for frame construction, sampling, field enumeration, and estimation is illustrated. The nine-county Kentucky...

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This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand system using a combination of micro-data from household surveys, and macro-data from the...