Naturally, these adverse effects lead to an increase in poverty. However, we find that transferring the fiscal savings realised from the complete elimination of electricity subsidies to the poor reduces extreme poverty significantly. This budget-neutral strategy is particularly attractive for Zambia, and...
Rising levels of carbon dioxide emissions in emerging countries has become a concern to all and there are calls for urgent action to curtail this. Ghana’s government has in recent times sought to achieve higher economic growth at a lower carbon emission rate. With the current development of th...
In the long- term perspective, the goal was to contribute to poverty reduction on a national level. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse how aid programmes similar to ASP and the concept farming as a business can contribute to poverty reduction and generate economic growth in Zambia. The...
The main causes of early sexual debut include engaging in sex after watching pornography, self-desire to have sex, and being influenced by alcohol consumption. Also, age, sex, education, marital status, religion, ecological zone, living arrangements, and access to the Internet were significant ...
Developing countries are investing bil- lions of dollars in rural electrification, targeting economic growth and poverty reduc- tion, despite limited empirical evidence. We estimate the effects of rural electrification on economic development in the context of India's national electrification program, ...
Impact of farmer field schools on agricultural productivity and poverty in East Africa World Dev., 40 (2) (2012), pp. 402-413, 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.019 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [9] A.F. Larsen, H.B. Lilleør Beyond the field: the impact of farmer fiel...
poverty reduction in developing countries, mainly through financial and technical support, and many critics analyze the World Bank’s involvement in these poverty-stricken countries. The main theoretical schools of thought, from Robert Gilpin’s The Issue of Dependency andEconomic Development, are one ...
Linkages between land reform and community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia are explor... F Mutefpa - ZERO 被引量: 2发表: 1998年 The Effect of Land Reform on Poverty: The Case of Southern African Development Community (SADC...
Finally, Oberdabernig (2013) deployed a control function approach and combined it with Bayesian Model Averaging to demonstrate adverse short-term effects of IMF participation on poverty and inequality. Despite widespread use, Heckman variants are not without limitations. The precision of their estimates...
labor, income status, accommodational conditions, poverty degree, and leisure or social activities) with FGP risk, it would be also difficult to identify GVs that are solely associated with one socioeconomic trait, but not with the others, in consideration of pleiotropic effects of these GVs [...