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Measuring trends in access to modern infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Results from Demographic and Health Surveys

Banerjee, Sudeshna; Diallo, Amadou; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

services in Africa. Using Demographic and Health Surveys from 22 countries that have conducted at least two such surveys …

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Saving in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aryeetey, Ernest; Udry, Christopher - Center for International Development, Kennedy School of … - 2000

Gross domestic savings in Africa averaged only 8 percent of GDP in the 1980s, compared to 23 percent for Southeast Asia … and 35 percent in the Newly Industrialized Economies. Aside from being generally low, saving rates in most of Africa have …, coupled with the risk management strategies and production activities of households in Africa account for the patterns of …

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Determinants of Poverty in Kenya: A Household Level Analysis

Kimenyi, Mwangi Samson; Geda, Alemayehu; Jong, Niek de; … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005

Strategies aimed at poverty reduction need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and that are amenable to modification by policy. This article uses household level data collected in 1994 to examine probable determinants of poverty status, employing both binomial and...

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Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?

Fisher, Monica G.; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Carr, Edward R. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; …

This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate information on household income. Results show that using a husband’s estimate of his wife’s income does not produce statistically reliable results for poverty analysis....

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Grain price adjustment asymmetry: the case of cowpea in Ghana

Langyintuo, Augustine S. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010

Patterns in price adjustment in response to information are important to market practitioners. This study looks at cowpea real wholesale price adjustment patterns in Bolgatanga, Wa, Makola and Techiman markets in Ghana. Using Techiman as the central market, a threshold autoregressive test for...

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Measuring Market Potential for Fresh Organic Fruit and Vegetable in Ghana

Owusu, Victor; Owusu, Michael Anifori - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010

This paper examines the market potential for fresh organic lettuce and water melon with a recently collected data on consumers from Kumasi metropolis of Ghana. Using a doublebounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation technique, consumer’s willingness to pay is estimated with a Tobit model...

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Supermarkets, farm household income and poverty: Insights from Kenya

Rao, Elizaphan J.O.; Qaim, Matin - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010

Expansion of supermarkets in developing countries is increasingly providing opportunities for farmers to participate in modern supply chains. While some farmers are excluded by stringent supermarket requirements, there are important gains for participating farmers. However, studies analyzing...

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Estimating the Causal Effects of War on Education in Côte D’Ivoire

Dabaleno, Andrew L.; Paul, Saumik - Households in Conflict Network - 2012

In this paper we estimate the causal effects of civil war on years of education in the context of a school-going age cohort who are exposed to armed conflict in Cote d’Ivoire. Using year and department of birth to identify an individual’s exposure to war, the difference-in-difference...

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Consumption Growth, Household Splits and Civil War

Verwimp, Philip; Bundervoet, Tom - Households in Conflict Network - 2008

We analyse the effect of civil war on household welfare. Using Burundian panel data for the 1998-2007 period in which we re-interviewed original as well as newly formed households (split-offs), we show that headcount poverty decreased by 3.5 % points when split-off households are taken into...

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Financial liberalization, financial fragility and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Misati, Roseline Nyakerario; Nyamongo, Esman Morekwa - In: Journal of Financial Stability 8 (2012) 3, pp. 150-160

model. It applies panel econometric techniques on data covering 34 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1983 … aid are key factors in explaining growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study therefore recommends adoption of a ‘managed …

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