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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2000/12/31
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS2508
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2010/07/01
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Sources of financial assistance for households suffering an adult death in Kagera, Tanzania
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econometric analysis of panel data