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    Legacies of victimization
    – Evidence from forced resettlement in Zimbabwe
    Shelley Liu - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    How does wartime victimization shape victims’ political attitudes in the long run? We argue that violence increases politics’ salience to victimized communities, which in turn increases these communities’ political awareness and evaluation of governance quality decades after war has ended. We...
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    Solutions for designing better special economic zones programmes in Africa
    UNU-WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
    Special economic zones (SEZ) in Africa are generally regarded as underperforming relative to their peers in the rest of the world. To explain this underperformance and to support success in the future it is important to analyse the key features and what is lacking in the design of African special...
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    Competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
    Genna Robb, Anthea Paelo - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
    Low levels of broadband penetration combined with poor quality of services present a challenge to growth and development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). This paper performs a comparative analysis of the competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in four SADC countries...
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    A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals
    – The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe
    Richard Adu-Gyamfi, Simplice A. Asongu, Tinaye Sonto Mmusi, Herbert Wamalwa, Madei Mangori - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
    The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe integrate the Sustainable Development Goals in their implementation and operations. We focused on four Sustainable Development Goals—gender equality, decent work...
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    Special economic zones in Southern Africa
    – Is success influenced by design attributes?
    Cornelius Dube, Wellington Matsika, Gamuchirai Chiwunze - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
    Special economic zones (SEZs) in Africa are generally regarded as underperforming relative to their peers in the rest of the world. This study focuses on the design features of the SEZ in Africa that may help explain this underperformance. Literature was reviewed to identify the key design...
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    Exploring the potential for growth and trade in fruit and oilseed-to-edible oils value chains following political shifts in Zimbabwe
    Shingie Chisoro-Dube, Cornelius Dube, Wellington Matsika - UNU-WIDER , 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
    Zimbabwe’s persistent economic challenges since the early 1990s have been largely attributed to unpopular political decisions at the expense of building productive capacity in different sectors of the economy. Using a global value chains framework taking into account political economy dynamics, this...
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    A 2013 Social Accounting Matrix for Zimbabwe
    Rob Davies, Marko Kwaramba, Dirk van Seventer - UNU-WIDER , 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper documents the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Zimbabwe in 2013. The SAM was built using National Accounts data from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT), including balance of payment data, government finance data, and highly aggregated industry-level...
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    Resource-based industrialisation in Southern Africa
    – Domestic policies, corporate strategies and regional dynamics
    Judith Fessehaie, Zavareh Rustomjee - Development Southern Africa , 2018
    Part of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
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    The causes of high intra-regional road freight rates for food and commodities in Southern Africa
    Thando Vilakazi - Development Southern Africa , 2018
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    The southern African poultry value chain
    – Corporate strategies, investments and agro-industrial policies
    Phumzile Ncube - Development Southern Africa , 2018
    Part of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
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    The implications for suppliers of the spread of supermarkets in southern Africa
    Reena das Nair, Shingie Chisoro-Dube, Francis Ziba - Development Southern Africa , 2018
    Part of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
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    Regional Growth Opportunities
    Channing Arndt, Simon Roberts - Development Southern Africa , 2018
    This issue contains seven articles addressing the major changes underway in the integration of economies in southern Africa. This special issue is based on the UNU-WIDER project 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa'. This project aims to develop, in conjunction with important research...
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    The counting approach to multidimensional poverty
    – The case of four African countries
    Valérie Bérenger - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the decomposability properties of poverty measures based on a counting approach. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire and Foster index with alternative poverty indices that are...
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    Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980–2016
    Isaac Chinyoka - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
    Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in...
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    Towards the integration of markets
    – Competition in road transportation of perishable goods between Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
    Thando Vilakazi, Anthea Paelo - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
    Rapid urbanization and rising income levels in Southern Africa have increased the consumption of perishable and processed food products. This paper relies primarily on firm-level interview data to assess competition and bottlenecks in transporting time-sensitive perishable products across borders...
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    Understanding intra-regional transport
    – Competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
    Thando Vilakazi, Anthea Paelo - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
    Efficient transport links are critical to enhancing the integration of markets in Southern Africa. This paper assesses the structure of markets, competition, and prices and costs of road transportation between urban hubs in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Key findings are...
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