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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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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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Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers to cope with climatic risk that prevail in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall. We present a modeling analysis of how the availability of rain-index insurance affects the...
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Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers to cope with climatic risk that prevail in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall. We present a modeling analysis of how the availability of rain-index insurance affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273623
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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Commercial cattle farming in Namibia, a prime example of livestock farming in semi-arid rangelands, is subject to a …
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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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The aim of this study is to evaluate the economic development potential for Namibia through IP telephony. First …, background information on the telecommunication sector in Namibia is given. Then, the link between the ICT sector and GDP growth … telephony for Namibia is evaluated using mainly descriptive means due to the lack of data availability. The conclusions drawn …
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We study optimal adaptive grazing management under uncertain rainfall in a discrete-time model. As in each year actual rainfall can be observed during the short rainy season, and grazing management can be adapted accordingly for the growing season, the closed-loop solution of the stochastic...
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