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article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The … paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique …
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This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data … estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies differ from pre …
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This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms … limitations and close the gaps between what Uganda's system looks like and how it functions. …
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This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms … limitations and close the gaps between what Uganda's system looks like and how it functions. …
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We assess, theoretically and empirically, the view that precolonial political institutions shaped the performance of colonial and postcolonial African governments. Using anthropological data, we find a strong positive association between the provision of public goods such as education, health...
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Of judgement and cunning work : dirty diamonds -- The river of big returns : geology and history -- De Beers : the delicate equipoise -- Strange plumbing : the diamond pipeline -- Angola : another distracting sideshow -- Liberia and the love of liberty -- Sierra Leone : diamonds in the RUF --...
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