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Food aid and informal insurance
Dercon, Stefan; Krishnan, Pramila - 2003
impact of negative shocks, taking into account informal risk-sharing arrangements. Using panel data from Ethiopia, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279013
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Mapping the impacts of food aid: Current knowledge and future directions
Margolies, Amy; Hoddinott, John - 2012
This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319798
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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies
Evenson, Robert E.; Huffman, Wallace B. - 1997
Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369160
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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271798
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Ethiopia's financial sector and its regulation
Addison, Tony; Geda, Alemayehu - 2001
Ethiopia is one of a number of SSA economies that adopted state-led development strategies in the 1970s (others include …-economic stability and growth in Ethiopia. In this regard, the Chinese transition strategy—in which significant control was retained over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279080
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The fiscal dimensions of Ethiopia's transition and reconstruction
Bevan, David L. - 2001
In 1991, the new Government of Ethiopia faced a triple fiscal challenge. First, a major effort was required to overhaul …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279184
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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269655
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The political economy of food price: The case of Ethiopia
Admassie, Assefa - 2013
Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319942
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Intra-household efficiency: An experimental study from Ethiopia
Kebede, Bereket; Tarazona, Marcela; Munro, Alistair; … - 2013
An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial endowments of spouses improves efficiency only in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319842
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Export diversification effects of aid for trade in sub-Saharan Africa
Masunda, Stein - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 29-36
This paper uses panel data of 42 sub-Saharan Africa countries from 2005 to 2015 to examine the effect of aid for trade (AfT) on export diversification. The average Hirschman-Herfindahl index measure of 0.77 indicates that the export basket of sub-Saharan African countries is very narrow. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470697