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. Interestingly, this analysis of Jatropha hedges and oil milling schemes in rural Zimbabwe shows that energy crops such as Jatropha …
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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 …
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In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and …
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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 …
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Botswana and Zimbabwe represent two cases of differential access to the world economy. Notwithstanding its lack of … diversification and its reliance on a primary mineral export, Botswana has prospered while Zimbabwe has fallen into a deep crisis … Botswana and Zimbabwe unveil, which relate largely to developmental linkages and aspects of agency. …
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Bild, während Simbabwe, das einst als afrikanisches Musterland gelobt wurde, heute ein Beispiel von Chaos auf dem Kontinent …
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We study the joint dynamics of macroeconomic variables, bond yields, and the exchange rate in an empirical two-country New-Keynesian model complemented with a no-arbitrage term structure model. With Canadian and US data, we are able to study the impact of macroeconomic shocks from both countries...
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A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
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We investigate the macroeconomic determinants of corporate spreads using a no-arbitrage technique. Structural shocks are identified by a New-Keynesian model. Treasury bonds are priced in an affine model with time-varying risk premia. Corporate bonds are priced in a reduced-form credit risk model...
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Using a rich sample of Canadian government securities auctions, we estimate the structural parameters of a share-auction model accounting for asymmetries across bidders. We find little evidence of asymmetries between participants at Canadian government nominal bond auctions. A counter-factual...
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