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Infrastructure and climate change: Impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley
Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L.; … - 2013
issues, the effect of climate change on the road infrastructure of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, all located within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319830
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The counting approach to multidimensional poverty: The case of four African countries
Bérenger, Valérie - 2017
This paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the … Surveys for different years for Malawi (2004, 2010, and 2015), for Mozambique (2003 and 2011), Tanzania (2005, 2010, and 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151177
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Towards Competitive Livestock, Poultry, and Dairy Industries: Consolidated Benchmarking Study
Briones, Roehlano M.; Espineli, Isabel B. - 2022
comprehensive review of trade policies affecting the value chain towards greater competitiveness of the LPD industries; 2) Earmark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485185
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Border effects on spatial price transmission between fresh tomato markets in Ghana and Burkina-Faso: Any case for promoting trans-border trade in West Africa?
Amikuzuno, Joseph - 2011
examines the impact of border and distance on price transmission between tomato markets in Ghana and Burkina-Faso. Theanalysis … applies a regime-switching vector error correction model to estimate semi-weekly, wholesale prices of tomato in four tomato … traders in moving tomato across the border. Moreover, the perishable nature of tomato, and the poor quality of roads and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306922
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Assessing Seasonal Asymmetric Price Transmission in Ghanaian Tomato Markets With the Johansen Estimation Method
Ihle, Rico; Amikuzuno, Joseph - 2010
studying Ghanaian tomato markets which are characterized by pronounced seasonality in production and trade flows. We analyse … the tomato markets of Ghana by simultaneously regarding its five most important markets, Navrongo, Techiman, Kumasi … regions of Navrongo and Techiman. The regimes are found to matter for the whole system of tomato markets. Disequilibrium is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330012
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Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique
Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - 2010
Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293524
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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2005
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295960
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Cotton-based development in Sub-Saharan Africa? Global commodity chains, national market structure and development outcomes in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Tanzania
Staritz, Cornelia; Tröster, Bernhard - 2015
Cotton is one of the most important cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and has had an important role in job creation, poverty reduction and foreign exchange generation. SSA cotton exporters face particularly three interconnected challenges - how to increase yields and quality in the context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304513
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Policies and finance for economic development and trade
Gibbon, Peter; Hambloch, Caroline; Pedersen, Rasmus … - 2014
East Africa is undergoing a natural resource boom that has the potential to reshape national economies and development aid in the region. Questions remain whether key Danish development partners, including Tanzania, Mozambique, and Uganda, can harness newfound oil, gas, and minerals for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340589
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When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality? The case of food prices in Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2015
Changes in relative prices of commodities consumed in different shares across income groups can be expected to alter real income differentials between these groups. Using Mozambican household budget survey and price data from 2002/03 and 2008/09, we show that once relative price increases are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418561