We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

biofuel strategy for Tanzania by limiting potential poverty reduction. Unlike previous studies, our integrated assessment …This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania … household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic incentives to convert unused lands to sugarcane-ethanol production …

higher levels of poverty. …