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Empirical essays on the long-term outcomes of childhood experiences: Poverty, weather shock and migration

Weldesenbet, Ermias Gebru - 2022

This PhD thesis contains three self-contained chapters, focusing on the long-term out- come of different childhood experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long-term implications on their life. For that reason, understanding...

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Rainfall forecasts, weather and wages over the agricultural production cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - 2014

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

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Risk, insurance and wages in general equilibrium

Mobarak, Ahmed Musfiq; Rosenzweig, Mark - 2013

We estimate the general-equilibrium labor market effects of a large-scale randomized intervention in which we designed and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both cultivators and to agricultural wage laborers allows us to...

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Robust estimates of changes in poverty and inequality in post-independence Namibia

Levine, Sebastian; Roberts, Benjamin - 2012

The authors estimate changes in the distribution of household consumption expenditure in Namibia since Independence in … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

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Characterizing commercial cattle farms in Namibia: Risk, management and sustainability

Olbrich, Roland; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012

Commercial cattle farming in Namibia, a prime example of livestock farming in semi-arid rangelands, is subject to a …

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Desertifikation: zu den Schwierigkeiten der Implementation der UN-Konvention Fallstudie Nambia

Böhm, Nicole - 2002

Die Bekämpfung der Desertifikation hat sich die 1992 vereinbarte und 1994 in Kraft getretene Desertifikationskonvention, neben der Klimarahmen- und der Biodiversitätskonvention die dritte große Umweltkonvention, zum Ziel gesetzt. Ist zur Desertifikationsbekämpfung jedoch ein international...

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NAMOD: A Namibian tax-benefit microsimulation model

Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Barnes, Helen - 2014

This paper provides an account of the construction of a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Namibia (NAMOD) which is … based on the EUROMOD platform F6.0. Previous research on social security provision in Namibia is reviewed and the current …

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Domestic resources for development financing in Namibia: Constraints and opportunities

Odhiambo, Ojijo; Ziramba, Emmanuel - 2014

Republic of Namibia (GRN) recognises the need for enhanced revenue mobilisation and has stated thus “the imperative to fund … Namibia, to identify its pace and its constraints for funding development projects. The main objective of the study is to … identify fiscal space which can be used to finance national development in Namibia and to propose policy options for enhancing …

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Breeding fat cats: Affirmative action, Black Economic Empowerment, and Namibia's post-colonial elite formation

Melber, Henning - 2006

The Independence of Namibia came about in 1990 as the result of a negotiated decolonisation process. The controlled … government. The country’s constitution endorsed the status quo in terms of property rights. Ever since then Namibia has remained … resources, while the majority of the people remain poor. Consequently, Namibia’s BEE so far translates merely into a classbased …

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China-Africa economic relations: The case of Namibia

Odada, J. E.; Kakujaha-Matundu, Omu - 2008

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