This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

. Interestingly, this analysis of Jatropha hedges and oil milling schemes in rural Zimbabwe shows that energy crops such as Jatropha …

In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and … to find a path toward faster growth in GDP, employment, and incomes, accompanied by more rapid progress on poverty …

Zimbabwe and other developing countries struggle to achieve millennium development goals originally set for 2015. To … maternal healthcare services use in Zimbabwe. A logistic model for four different maternal healthcare services using data from … the 2005/6 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey was estimated. Secondary education increases the odds of use of maternal …

ärmere Bevölkerungsgruppen stärker von ihnen profitieren. Länderstudien zu Simbabwe, Uganda und Peru unterstreichen das …. Während Peru und Simbabwe als Musterbeispiele einer ökonomisch und sozial erfolgreichen bzw. fehlgeschlagenen Anpassung …

particular emphasis on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Our focus is on the impact of shocks on long-term outcomes, and we ask whether …

Vulnerability to poverty is a major problem in the rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Rural Households are confronted … contribution of indigenous fruit trees towards reducing vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty. The methodology used is a … multi-period stochastic household income model. The data were collected in a case study in Zimbabwe using detailed monthly …

reports of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Previous studies have taken only the views of the household head into consideration in …

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …