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For many low-income countries, the impact of structural reforms on economic growth and poverty alleviation crucially depends on the response of aggregate agricultural supply to changing incentives. Despite its policy relevance, the size of this parameter is still largely unknown. This paper...
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This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of pricing policies, macroeconomic distortions, and...
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This paper examines the relevance of incorporating seasonality in agricultural supply models. Former studies have eliminated the problem of seasonality by using seasonally adjusted data. Recent developments in cointegration techniques allow the comprehensive modelling of error-correcting...
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This working paper analyses the public international climate-related development finance reaching Kenya, Tanzania and …
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controlled trial in Tanzania on an intense gender-sensitive skills training program that worked with over 53,000 youth in the …
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This study assesses the extent of COVID‐19‐related food insecurity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia. Using the Household …
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Tanzania has experienced relatively strong and stable economic growth accompanied by social stability over the past two … design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by … impacted disproportionately by the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper interrogates Tanzania …
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challenge in the development context. In Mainland Tanzania, several domestically led policy reforms have been introduced to … increasingly expand social protection for informal workers. This paper examines the case of Tanzania by exploring the policy …
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Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to … grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social … in Tanzania. …
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) in Tanzania on the welfare difference between youth (aged 15-35 according to the official definition) and adult (aged …
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