This dissertation explores household risk and savings behavior in Zimbabwe, and agricultural technology adoption, and the impact of public investments on the economy and community health in Ethiopia. The first paper analyzes changes in per capita consumption and savings behavior in Zimbabwe...

Using for the first time survey data from 26 post-Communist countries, covering the period 1990-2005, the paper examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of these economies. We find that, after controlling for country-fixed effects and type of survey used,...

The paper examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes andwelfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomicpolicy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable nationalincome, consumption, and expenditure surveys in...