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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, Household poverty in Tanzania

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    Welfare impacts of climate shocks: evidence from Tanzania

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the world’s most food-insecure region characterized by high levels of child mortality and poverty and low levels of human and physical capital (FAO, 2009). Countries in SSA, including Tanzania, heavily depend on a smallholder-based agricultural sector, which makes their welfare and food security particularly vulnerable to climate change.
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    Learning with older people about their transport and mobility problems in rural Tanzania

    HelpAge International, 2015
    HelpAge conducted a study in Kidabaga, Mwatasi and Mhanga villages, Kilolo District, in Iringa region to build baseline data to promote and monitor mobility‐focused interventions for rural older people. Three approaches were used to conduct the study:
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    Towards universal pensions in Tanzania: Evidence on opportunities and challenges from a remote area, Ngenge ward, Kagera

    HelpAge International, 2014
    The Government of Tanzania is currently taking concrete steps towards the implementation of a universal non-contributory pension. The objective of this study was to build on previous research by exploring the impacts of the cash transfer and the practical lessons for implementation in very remote settings.
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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    Achieving income security in old age for all Tanzanians: a study into the feasibility of a universal social pension

    HelpAge International, 2010
    In Tanzania, poverty rates amongst households containing an older person are 22.4 per cent higher than the national poverty rate.  In the past, security in old age was provided through a range of social protection mechanisms based on the extended family and community structures, but these traditional mechanisms are increasingly unable to cope.
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    Moving out of poverty in Tanzania: evidence from Kagera

    Journal of Development Studies, 2009
    In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are able to escape from poverty, while others are not. This kind of research is most insightful when it is focuses on pathways out of poverty under particularly trying circumstances.
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    Poverty in Kagera, Tanzania: characteristics, causes and constraints

    University of Sussex, UK, 2008
    Although Tanzania has made some progress it remains one of the poorest countries in Sub Saharan Africa. The predominantly rural, agricultural-dependant Kagera region in Northwest Tanzania is marked by the stark inequalities that characterise the rest of the country.
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    African poverty through the lens of labor economics: earnings and mobility in three countries

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006
    To understand poverty in Africa it is crucial to understand the performance of the small scale sector, from which the vast majority of the poor earn their living.
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    Untapped connections: gender, water and poverty. Key issues, government commitments and actions for sustainable development

    Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003
    This paper presents an overview of the relationship between gender, poverty and water. This includes men's and women's differential access to water and differential water uses, different experiences of health and sanitation, and how men and women are differently affected by public versus private services.
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    Poverty in Tanzania: comparisons across administrative regions

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2004
    This paper is an interim report on a three pronged research project. The project’s overarching objectives are: to rank the administrative regions in Tanzania on the basis of povertyto use stochiastic dominance test to check the consistency of previous rankings.

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