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The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They … contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include time poverty, and to a broader definition of work to include household … literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to …
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indicators (GDP is related to the MDGs because a higher level of income leads to a reduction in poverty). The other two papers …
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This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of recent debt relief initiatives among four groups of countries: the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), the other IDA-eligible countries, the non-IDA developing countries, and the industrialized countries. The distributional impacts are...
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What is the share of students attending faith-inspired schools (FISs) in Africa? Do FISs reach the poor in priority? How much do they cost for households? And how do FISs compare with public schools and private secular schools in these areas? This article provides tentative answers to these...
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Why do some parents send their children to faith-inspired schools (FISs), while others choose to rely on public schools? Within FISs, are the motivations to send a child to a Christian school different from those to send a child to an Islamic school? How well are FISs performing - along various...
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This paper investigates the effects of shocks, predominantly climate shocks, on labor market outcomes in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the differential effects of shocks on migrants and non-migrants. Our...
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