Participants in the Inclusive Green Program forward their new knowledge to colleagues
The graduates from the Inclusive Green Economy program, IGE fellows, organized a workshop with the help of the IGE support team to train their colleagues on inclusive green economy. The participants…
Stakeholders call for new fishery law in Nigeria
Stakeholders, including fishermen, fish farmers, researchers and regulators from government agencies have signed a communique requesting Nigeria’s national assembly to review the Nigerian Fisheries…
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The Effects of Household Shocks on Child Nutrition Status in Tanzania
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The main objective of this paper is to examine the effects of household shocks on thenutrition status of children between 0–59 months in Tanzania. The study employed the national panel survey data of Tanzania collected in three waves: 2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13. The study used the panel random-effects probit model to estimate the effects of household shocks on child nutrition status, measured by binary variables: stunting, wasting, and underweight. Findings indicated that weather shocks increase the probability of a child being stunted and underweight.
Does Scarcity Reduce Cooperation? Experimental Evidence from Rural Tanzania
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Cooperation is essential to reap efficiency gains from specialization, not least in poor communities where economic transactions often are informal. Yet, cooperation might be more difficult to sustain under scarcity, since defecting from a cooperative equilibrium can yield safe, short-run benefits. In this study, we investigate how scarcity affects cooperation by leveraging exogenous variation in economic conditions induced by the Msimu harvest in rural Tanzania.