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The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe economic consequences in Southern Africa, resulting in an unprecedented decline in … fuel imports. Limited policy responses have also reflected the depth of inequality in Southern Africa. Both businesses and …
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There is a widespread perception that taxing in sub-Saharan Africa has been and remains fraught with problems or …
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Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect … ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet legal empowerment via registration and titling is also advocated by those …
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Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also …
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transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical …
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Although development generally refers to a broad concept, the quest for development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been …
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We examine the long-term impact of forced labour on individual risk behaviour and economic decisions. For that, we focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961. We combine archival sources about the boundaries of historical cotton...
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This paper exploits several waves of two major nationwide representative surveys to document the impacts of climate shocks on individuals and households in Zambia. We merge these datasets with historical precipitation and temperature data at the district level. First, we show the gendered...
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Low-income countries face the combined challenges of climate shocks and limited domestic revenue mobilization, yet these issues are rarely studied together. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of climate shocks on firm performance and tax revenue in a lowincome country context, using...
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Mozambique is highly vulnerable to climate change. It faces frequent cyclones, floods, and droughts while having limited revenue collection capacity and social protection programmes. This paper assesses the distributional effects of climate shocks on household consumption and explores adaptation...
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