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Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2013

In a world with volatile food prices, countries have an incentive to shelter their populations from induced real income shocks. When some agents are net food producers while others are net consumers, there is scope for insurance between the two groups. A domestic social protection scheme would...

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Gainers and Losers from Trade Reform in Morocco

Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - 2013

The authors use Morocco's national survey of living standards to measure the short-term welfare impacts of prior estimates of the price changes attributed to various trade policy reforms for cereals-the country's main food staple. They find small impacts on mean consumption and inequality in the...

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications

Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013

importance of the informal economy in female economic activity. The first axis the paper studies is whether reducing educational …. Women's economic activities in the informal economy largely represent the commercialization of domestic skills and … dependence on social networks. The shunting of female production to the informal sector in the male-dominated colonial economy is …

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications, Part I, The Pre-colonial and Colonial Periods

Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2012

nature and operation of the colonial economy and the instrumentality of customary law. The sequel to this paper focuses on …

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How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

Ravallion, Martin - 2013

Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though...

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