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Methodological innovations in estimating the (inverse) relationship between farm productivity and farm size in a developing economy: a case study of Burundi [PDF]
We use a nonparametric estimation of the production function to investigate the relationship between farm productivity and farming scale in poor smallholder agricultural systems in the north of Burundi.
D'Haese, Marijke F.C. +3 more
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the factors influencing renewable energy consumption and renewable electricity in Sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) using the Lewbel 2SLS approach, panel quantile regression and Driscoll and Kraay estimator. It focuses on a panel dataset covering 41 countries from 1998 to 2020.
Emmanuel K. Manu, Simplice A. Asongu
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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Household Size and Access to Education in Rural Burundi: The Case of Mutaho Commune
Open Education StudiesWhile education is recognized as a fundamental human right and an important factor in improving economic and social conditions, child schooling rates in Burundi show that there are still children of school-age who are not attending school and those who ...
Ndayishimiye Bosco +4 more
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The Impact of Violent Conflict on Child Health: What Are the Channels? [PDF]
Child health during and after violent conflicts has been a priority for both policymakers and academics, as ill-health in early life can be impossible to make up for in later life, and has important effects on education and adult wages.
Philip Verwimp +2 more
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Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
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Potential for Regional Development Through Harmonising Land- Related Policies Across East Africa
Pan-African Journal of Education and Social SciencesThe East African Community (EAC) is a region endowed with vast land resources that have the potential to drive economic, social, and environmental development. However, the lack of harmonised land-related policies among EAC member states has hindered the
Prosper Turimubumwe
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Revealing patterns of endemism in the transatlantic family Chelodesmidae (Polydesmida: Diplopoda)
Cladistics, EarlyView.Abstract With fossil records dating back to the Silurian/Late Ordovician, millipedes stand out as one of the earliest terrestrial animal groups. Their limited vagility and high endemism make them valuable tools for formulating and testing biogeographic hypotheses, including those related to macro‐vicariance events.
Rodrigo Salvador Bouzan +4 more
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Development cooperation with middle-income countries [PDF]
Only flows to countries that are on the DAC list of recipients can be labelled Official Development Assistance (ODA). The countries on that list however are a mixed bag.
Renard, Robrecht, Verbeke, Karel
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Animal feed resources for small-scale livestock producers. Proceedings of the second PANESA workshop [PDF]
, 2014 Presents papers on inventory of animal feed resources in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Burundi, Madagascar, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique, research and development experiences in Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Zimbabwe; socioeconomic ...
Dzowela, B.H. +2 more
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