Tesfaye Teklu
Biographic Data
| ID | 156610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tesfaye Teklu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tesfaye |
| FAMILY NAME | Teklu |
| SIGNATURE | TEKLU T |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Famine in Africa
Though famine has affected many parts of the world in the twentieth century, the conditions that produce famine—extreme poverty, armed conflict, economic and political turmoil, and climate shocks—are now most prevalent in Africa. Researchers differ on how to address this problem effectively, but their arguments are often not informed by empirical analysis from a famine context. Broadening current theories and models of development for conquering …
Famine in Africa
Who Participates in Labor-Intensive Public Works in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Rural Botswana and Kenya
Factors Affecting Employment Choice in a Labor-Intensive Public Works Scheme in Rural Botswana
Food demand studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Prevention and Mitigation of Famine
Botswana and Sudan experienced consecutive years of drought in the 1980s. Sudan faced a large decline in food entitlement and nutritional deterioration, which translated into famine in 1984/85. Botswana, on the other hand, nearly compensated income losses and averted nutritional deterioration and famine-related deaths. There are important lessons to learn from the famine prevention experience of Botswana. Its strategy for dealing with drought and…
Famine as the Outcome of Political Production and Market Failures
Famines are not explainable as short-term crisis events; they are more a function of long-term trends resulting from a failure of policy to deal appropriately with demographic, environmental, productivity, and political pressures, all of which make segments of society and regions highly vulnerable to exogenous shocks. Optimal strategies for famine prevention must, therefore, build on a recognition that institutions and their policies play a key r…
Who Participates in Labor-Intensive Public Works in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Rural Botswana and Kenya
Famine in Africa
The Prevention and Mitigation of Famine
Botswana and Sudan experienced consecutive years of drought in the 1980s. Sudan faced a large decline in food entitlement and nutritional deterioration, which translated into famine in 1984/85. Botswana, on the other hand, nearly compensated income losses and averted nutritional deterioration and famine-related deaths. There are important lessons to learn from the famine prevention experience of Botswana. Its strategy for dealing with drought and…
Food demand studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Famine as the Outcome of Political Production and Market Failures
Famines are not explainable as short-term crisis events; they are more a function of long-term trends resulting from a failure of policy to deal appropriately with demographic, environmental, productivity, and political pressures, all of which make segments of society and regions highly vulnerable to exogenous shocks. Optimal strategies for famine prevention must, therefore, build on a recognition that institutions and their policies play a key r…
Famine as the Outcome of Political Production and Market Failures
Famines are not explainable as short-term crisis events; they are more a function of long-term trends resulting from a failure of policy to deal appropriately with demographic, environmental, productivity, and political pressures, all of which make segments of society and regions highly vulnerable to exogenous shocks. Optimal strategies for famine prevention must, therefore, build on a recognition that institutions and their policies play a key r…
The Prevention and Mitigation of Famine
Botswana and Sudan experienced consecutive years of drought in the 1980s. Sudan faced a large decline in food entitlement and nutritional deterioration, which translated into famine in 1984/85. Botswana, on the other hand, nearly compensated income losses and averted nutritional deterioration and famine-related deaths. There are important lessons to learn from the famine prevention experience of Botswana. Its strategy for dealing with drought and…
Food demand studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Factors Affecting Employment Choice in a Labor-Intensive Public Works Scheme in Rural Botswana
Who Participates in Labor-Intensive Public Works in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Rural Botswana and Kenya
Famine in Africa
Famine in Africa
Though famine has affected many parts of the world in the twentieth century, the conditions that produce famine—extreme poverty, armed conflict, economic and political turmoil, and climate shocks—are now most prevalent in Africa. Researchers differ on how to address this problem effectively, but their arguments are often not informed by empirical analysis from a famine context. Broadening current theories and models of development for conquering …
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Famine (4 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (2 works)