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Soils are often subject to environmental shocks which are caused by negative extern- alities linked to overexploitation. We present a stochastic model of a dynamic agricultural economy where natural disasters are sizeable, multiple, and random. Expansion of agricultural activities raises...
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Ruanda. Für letztere könnte dies eine Strategie sein, um ihre Heiratschancen zu verbessern. …
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this change in a case study on Rwanda. In the empirical analysis, we find that highly targeted Aid for Business has a … directed at broad governance areas. In the country case study, we depart from Rwanda's excellent regulatory performance to …
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Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance …
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The economic literature has given due attention to household coping strategies in peacetime. In contrast, little is known about such strategies in wartime. This paper studies the use of cattle as a buffer stock by Rwandan households during 1991-2001, a period characterized by civil war and...
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Rwanda experienced several firms of internal violence, including civil war,genocide, reprisal killings and (counter …-)insurgency. While these events all occurred in 1990-1998, their geographic location within Rwanda differred, with the genocide … evidence on the death toll of firmed conflict in Rwanda, we find significant high-high excess mortality clusters in the …
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-scale massacres and dispersed killings, to victims of violence. The measure is illustrated for the case of Rwanda and it is shown that …
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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 … genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of …
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genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of … reducing fertility for the large group of widows in Rwanda. …
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