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Boda Bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya
Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566206
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Does AIDS-Related Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally representative sample of rural households from Zambia. To minimize selection bias that may arise because AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079109
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Bananas, Oil, and Development: Examining the Resource Curse and Its Transmission Channels by Resource Type
Lay, Jann; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004
This paper examines the resource curse and its transmission channels by resource type. We review and synthesize existing theories of the transmission channels of the curse. This synthesis suggests that (1) relating the transmission channels to the characteristics of different types of resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755230