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Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
International Labour Organization, 1997DocumentPractical Action to Eliminate Child Labour: background paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
International Labour Organization, 1997DocumentCoping with uncertainty - Petty producers in postwar Mozambique
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Since the early 1990s, Mozambican society has undergone significant changes. The Peace Accord in 1992 enabled demobilisation of most former soldiers and repatriation of almost two million refugees from the neighbouring countries, and the Government has launched an extensive programme of market-oriented reform and political reconciliation.DocumentThe impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.DocumentEconomic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997Paper addresses the migration process in the Zambia's Southern Province. Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.DocumentAgricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.DocumentThe Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiopia has seen impressive growth in GDP but little in the way of private investment.DocumentIn sickness and in health... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997To investigate risk-sharing within the household, we model nutritional status as a durable good and we look at the consequences of individual health shocks. For household allocation to be pareto-efficient, households should pool shocks to income. We also investigate whether households can smooth nutritional levels over time.Document'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.Pages