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Mozambique
Maure, Genito A.; Thomas, Timothy S.; Hachigonta, Sepo; … - In: Southern African agriculture and climate change: A …
Africa, in general, is vulnerable to climate change, mostly due to its dependence on agriculture. Mozambique is a prime example. Agriculture is an important sector of the country’s economy, and, as indicated by the 2007 FAO country factsheet, around 80 percent of the population (about...
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Botswana
Zhou, Peter P.; Simbini, Tichakunda; Ramokgotlwane, Gorata - In: Southern African agriculture and climate change: A …
In this chapter we assess the vulnerability of Botswana’s agriculture to climate change, with special emphasis on impacts on the poor. The agriculture sector is inherently vulnerable to climate change, and Botswana’s semiarid climate already severely limits agricultural production....
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Methodology
Nelson, Gerald C.; Palazzo, Amanda; … - In: Southern African agriculture and climate change: A …
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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Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Hachigonta, Sepo (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
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Agglomeration and Growth : Cross-Country Evidence
BRÜLHART, Marius; SBERGAMI, Federica - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2008
cross-section OLS and dynamic panel GMM estimation. Agglomeration is measured alternatively through measures of urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650126
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Short Review of Rural Development in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011
Current political crisis in Sudan have roots in lags of economic development and mismanagement. The result is food insecurity degeneration of the country's mainstay, the agricultural sector and underdevelopment of it secondary sector. The paper review issues on historical development of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183589
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Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
Jedwab, Remi; Christiaensen, Luc; Gindelsky, Marina - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014
Standard models explain urbanization by rural-urban migration in response to an (expected) urban-rural wage gap. The … agglomeration and providing further insights into the phenomenon of urbanization without growth. Both migra- tion and urban … demographics must be considered in debating urbanization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148635
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Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk, and the Rural Origins of Aggregate Volatility
Poelhekke, Steven - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2008
The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside the developed world since 1960 …. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic growth and job creation in most parts of the world. However, notably … even reversed, the rate of urbanization continued its fast pace. This paper aims to explain this by introducing an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005557729
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Weather and income: Lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1êC increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307270
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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517704