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Surviving on the Move : Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa
Crush, Jonathan - 2010
Since the collapse of apartheid, there have been major increases in migration flows within, to and from the Southern African region. Cross-border movements are at an all-time high across the region and internal migration is at record levels. The implications of greater mobility for areas of...
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Surviving on the move : migration, poverty and development in Southern Afria
Crush, Jonathan Scott (contributor) - 2010
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The impacts of hydropower dam construction on the adjacent rural households' food insecurity in Northwestern Ethiopia
Jima, Yeshi; Guta, Dawit Diriba; Senbeta, Feyera; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This study examines the impact of two hydropower dam reservoirs, Amerti and Neshe, on the adjacent rural household food … the dam construction on household food insecurity. The results revealed that the average HDDS and HFIAS in the study area … HFIAS of displaced households by 14.6% while reducing HDDS by 24%. This study found a negative relationship between dam …
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Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability : The Bui Dam in Ghana and the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia
Urban, Frauke - 2016
by discussing these issues in relation to Chinese overseas hydropower dams in Ghana (Bui Dam) and Cambodia (Kamchay Dam … discussions with local communities affected by the dams, institutional actors in Ghana and Cambodia, Chinese actors, and dam … builders. The article uses an environmental justice perspective as an analytical framework. The article concludes that the dam …
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Storing water in a dam
Gallagher, D.; Manning, R. - 1980
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Well-being capital and government’s intervention to dam’s affected residents : Pak Mun Dam, Thailand
Chaiyamart, Pattaraphongpan; Gartner, William C.; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012598552
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa
Balistreri, Edward J. - 2016
Evidence indicates that trade costs are a much more substantial barrier to trade than tariffs are, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) trade facilitation, (ii) non-tariff barriers, and (iii) the costs of business services. The paper assesses the poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246209
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa
Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017
Evidence indicates that trade costs are a much more substantial barrier to trade than tariffs are, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) trade facilitation, (ii) non-tariff barriers, and (iii) the costs of business services. The paper assesses the poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969265
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La Pauvreté - Déterminant Majeur Et Conséquence De L’Épidémie Du Vih/Sida Dans Une Contrée Frontalière En Afrique Australe Cas De La Frontière De Kasumbalesa (République Démocratiq...
Mitonga, Honoré - 2012
This thesis aims to evaluate the interaction between poverty and the HIV/AIDS in the border city of Kasumbalesa. Cross-sectional surveys were conducted among households, truckers from Southern Africa, the population in general, people living with HIV/AIDS from October 2008 to April 2009 for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171084
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Economic change, governance and natural resource wealth : the political economy of change in Southern Africa
Reed, David - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001649777