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This paper compares reform ownership in Ghana and Tanzania over the past two decades. It finds that on several … dimensions, Ghana’s early economic reforms enjoyed a high degree of ownership. That ownership was not embedded, however, in a …-generation reforms, the move to multi-party democracy and the exponential increase in aid contributed to a decline in ownership in Ghana …
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of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 shows that households in rural Zambia are able to … burden beyond directly afflicted households. Chapter 3 demonstrates for North-Western Tanzania that the age at parental … households in sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 4 analyzes the dichotomy of the non-agricultural sector in Western Kenya and the …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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Empirical work in labour economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested. Using a unique panel data set for four...
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This paper uses data on individual earnings in manufacturing industry for five African countries in the early 1990s to test whether firms located in the capital city pay higher wages than firms located elsewhere, and whether such benefits accrue to all or only certain types of workers. Earnings...
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Partnership with Africa (SPA) that considers early experiences with PRSPs in eight African countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi …, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania. The paper argues that politics matters; that PRSPs have helped bring poverty into …
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In the beginning of the 1980s, Cameroon witnessed a sustained rate of growth, associated essentially with the boom in … tax system could, therefore, ensure sustainable growth and development in Cameroon. The study aims to contribute to a … better understanding of the evolution of the tax system in Cameroon. In particular, the paper reviews the chronology of the …
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, Mozambique and Tanzania along these challenges focusing on dynamics in global cotton commodity chains, different national market … systems in Burkina Faso and Mozambique generally outperform the liberalized system in Tanzania in terms of production levels … Burkina Faso through its involvement in the largest cotton company and the stabilisation fund. The system in Tanzania provides …
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