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Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...
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illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …
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poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for …
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out of Africa, especially in Ghana and Senegal. Signs of positive selection with respect to the level of education of …This paper evaluates the strength of social and economic forces that affect the pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa …' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about …
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This paper investigates the dynamic impacts of rural road improvements on farm productivity and crop choices in Zambia …
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shocks and safeguarding smallholders' source of income, avoiding the seizure of their assets. This study analyzes the effect … of this policy on land prices, to investigate whether smallholders' welfare is improved by this protective measure or not …
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shocks and safeguarding smallholders' source of income, avoiding the seizure of their assets. This study analyzes the effect … of this policy on land prices, to investigate whether smallholders' welfare is improved by this protective measure or not …
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Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...
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Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure....
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In der Studie "Digital Financial Services in Africa: Beyond the Kenyan Success Story" wird erklärt, warum digitale … sieben weiteren Ländern erläutert, die ebenfalls Gegenstand der Studie waren: Benin, Kamerun, Mosambik, Nigeria, Sambia …, Senegal und Uganda. Für die Ermittlung des Marktpotenzials von digitalen Finanzdienstleistungen stützt sich die Studie auf die …
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