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development and poverty reduction in Zambia. The paper attempts to answer one critical question: does financial sector development … in Zambia lead to poverty reduction? Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the newly developed autoregressive … kind to empirically examine the causal relationship between financial deepening and poverty reduction in Zambia using …
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According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Le Treut et al. 2007, 96), climate is defined as average weather over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. Climate is usually described in terms of the mean and variability...
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population that largely relies on rainfed agriculture, Zambia is vulnerable to the impacts of rainfall variability, which pose … most parts of Zambia. The objective of the chapter is to help policymakers, researchers, and country negotiators better … understand and anticipate the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture and on vulnerable households in Zambia, given that …
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Modeling the impacts of climate change presents a complex challenge arising from the wide-ranging processes underlying the working of markets, ecosystems, and human behavior. The analytical framework used in this monograph integrates modeling components that range from the macro to the micro to...
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, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food …
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economic development trends, 1970-1982, in Zambia - covers balance of payments, economic growth, trade, inflation, wages …
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Backed by peaceful but undemocratic presidential (2010) and legislative (July 2013) elections the Gnassingbé regime consolidated its power. In view of the absolute majority of the ruling party, its inclination for meaningful constitutional and electoral reforms, as demanded by the opposition...
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This paper establishes a simple model of long run economic and political development, which is driven by the inherent technical features of dierent production factors and the political con.icts among factor owners on how to divide the outputs. The main production factor in economy evolves from...
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This article presents a new theory of development that unifies disparate insights into a single framework, focusing on human empowerment—a process that emancipates people from domination. Human empowerment sets in when mass-scale technological progress widens ordinary people’s ‘action...
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