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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2009)
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2008)
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2008-04)
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(The World Bank and Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2013-12)
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2007)Public policy in Botswana is aimed at reducing poverty through broad-based economic growth, specifically through employment creation initiatives. However, public policy in Botswana also recognizes that economic growth is ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2019-03)This paper applies the Lerman and Yitzhaki (1985) inequality decomposition approach on food and non-food expenditures on the 2009/10 Botswana Core Welfare Indicator Survey; and the 2015/16 Multi Topic Indicator Survey ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 1996-05)
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2018-03)We employ the Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage (NRCA) index on data for the period 1961-2013 to examine the competitiveness of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries in the global sugar market. ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2018-03)This paper adopts the Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage (NRCA) index and data for the period 1961-2013 to examine comparative advantage among the leading citrus exporters in the global market and draws implications ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2018-03)We investigate the patterns and determinants of subsistence acreage diversity in Botswana for the period 1978/79-2013/14, focusing on the role of input subsidies. Results suggest that acreage diversity declined during ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2003-06)Macroeconomic policy plays an important role towards the attainment of food security in Botswana because the country is a high cost production area, due to very low, erratic and unreliable rainfall and soils generally not ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2015-08)We investigate Botswana’s beef export competitiveness using indices of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and data for the period 1961-2011. Results indicate that Botswana has been the most competitive SADC beef ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2011-08)This article examines factors underlying communal beef cattle marketing at a household level in Botswana, with emphasis placed on the role of public and private transfers. Results show that public and private transfers ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 1997-07)This paper examines the nature and extent of poverty using the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 1984/85 and 1993/94 and goes on to give a synoptic view of Government's poverty alleviation strategies in which six ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2014-05)This paper investigates household determinants of welfare and poverty in Botswana. Using the 2002/03 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) and the 2009/10 Botswana Core Welfare Indicator Survey (BCWIS), and ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2015-10)Poverty in Botswana is more pronounced in female-headed households (FHHs) especially those residing in rural areas where employment opportunities are limited. Similarly, the proportion of the FHHs to the total poor increased ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2011-08)We analyze the impact of public food and cash transfers on farmer participation in Botswana’s subsistence arable agriculture. The results indicate that publicly provided social pensions and food packages (rations) reduce ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2014-03)This paper investigates the disincentive effects of public transfers on subsistence producers in Botswana. Comparative statics analyses indicate that public transfers would not affect farm production when profit and utility ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2005-11)Botswana has been pursuing the economy-wide objective of economic diversification for the past three ecades. This paper examines the challenges Botswana’s Agriculture is likely to face under the EU/ACP Economic Partnership ...
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(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis(BIDPA), 2005-06)An import demand equation is estimated to capture the impact of import controls on horticultural imports (oranges and potatoes) in Botswana. Elasticity esti mates are then employed to endogenously compute Nominal Protection ...