Economic Transformation for Poverty Reduction in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

A Multidimensional Approach
Redaktion: Heshmati, Almas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an edited volume which contains empirical studies on determinants of poverty and its reduction in Africa. It looks at multidimensional measures of poverty, production and productivity related factors, policies influencing poverty and random, hazardous but preventive factors influencing poverty levels and their reduction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000007015
• Artikelnr.: 56836196

Autorenporträt

Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at Sogang University, South Korea, and at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Economic Transformation for Poverty Reduction in Africa
(Almas HESHMATI) Part A: Climate, Energy and Food Security 2. Impact of
Weather Variations on Cereal Productivity and the Influence of
Agro-Ecological Differences in Ethiopian Cereal Production (Oumer BERISSO
Metaksa) 3. Vulnerability and Impact Assessment of Climate Change on East
African Wildlife Tourism: A Study of Maasai Mara Ecosystem (Richard Kerongo
MOSE) 4. Multidimensional Measure of Household Energy Poverty and its
Determinants in Ethiopia (Mekonnen BERSISA) 5. Household Food Security and
School Enrolment: Evidence from Malawi (Sunyoung LEE) 6. Analysis of
Poverty and its Determinants in Rwanda (Masoomeh RASHIDGHALAM) Part B:
Taxes, Trade Openness and Capital 7. Assessing the Revenue Implications of
Indirect Tax Reforms in Rwanda (Etienne NDEMEZO and Francis MENJO-BAYE) 8.
Differential Impact of Trade Liberalization and Rural-Urban Income
Inequalities on Poverty in African Countries (Kahsay BERHANE) 9. Effects of
Capital Flight on Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Evidence from a
Simulation Based Analysis (Alemayehu GEDA and Addis YIMER) Part C:
Employment, Gender Wage Differentials and Start-ups 10. Employment and
Incidence of Poverty in Urban Ethiopia (Martha K. MELESE) 11. Impact of
Gender Wage Differentials on Poverty and Inequalities in Cameroon (Pierre
M. NGUETSE-TEGOUM and Justin BEM) 12. Econometric Analysis of Business
Start-ups in Rwanda (Joseph NDAGIJIMANA, Tharcisse NZASINGIZIMANA and Almas
HESHMATI) Part D: Diversity, Conflicts and Hazardous Factors 13. A
Within-Country Study of Conflict and Poverty in Nigeria (Chinasa I. IKELU)
14. The Cost of Motorcycle Accidents in Uganda (Richard SEBAGGALA, Fred
MATOVU, Dan AYEBALE, Vincent KISENYI and Messarck KATUSIIMEH)