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  Coping with uncertainty - Petty producers in postwar Mozambique

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Since 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.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  This 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.
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  Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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  Economic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  Paper 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.
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  Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The 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.
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  The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Paper 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.
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  Economic objectives, public-sector deficits and macroeconomic stability in Zimbabwe

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  A fundamental macroeconomic problem in Zimbabwe is that the sum of public-sector projects is greater than the resources available to finance them.
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  In sickness and in health... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  To 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.
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  'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The 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.
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  Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Most children in Côte d'Ivoire perform some kind of work. In rural areas, more than four of five children work, with only a third combining work with schooling. Child labor in Côte d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because of a severe economic crisis. Two out of three urban children aged 7 to 17 work; half of them also attend school.

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