Sources of financial assistance for households suffering an adult death in Kagera, Tanzania (English)

The AIDS crisis in Africa and elsewhere compels us to design appropriate assistance policies for households experience a death. Policies should take into account and strengthen existing household coping strategies, rather than duplicate or undermine them. The authors investigate the nature of coping mechanisms among a sample of households in Kagera, Tanzania in 1991-1994. They estimate the magnitude and timing of receipts of private transfers, credits...

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Lundberg,Mattias K. A.;

Over,A. Mead;

Mujinja, Phare;
Document Date
2000/12/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS2508
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Tanzania,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Doc Name
Sources of financial assistance for households suffering an adult death in Kagera, Tanzania
Keywords
econometric analysis of panel data

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Lundberg,Mattias K. A.; Over,A. Mead; Mujinja, Phare.

Sources of financial assistance for households suffering an adult death in Kagera, Tanzania (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2508 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/977171468760149429

Sources of financial assistance for households suffering an adult death in Kagera, Tanzania (English)

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