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Mapping Poverty in Afghanistan : Technical Report

World Bank Group - 2019

Afghanistan has been in protracted conflict for almost four decades, with direct implications on progress towards … poverty incidence and high levels of inequality within Afghanistan, the knowledge of living standards at more disaggregated … poverty maps and presents the resulting collection of poverty maps, the first of its kind for Afghanistan. The structure of …

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No household left behind : Afghanistan targeting the ultra poor impact evaluation

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Coville, Aidan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2019

Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …

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Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa

Beegle, Kathleen - 2019

Sub-Saharan Africa's turnaround over the past couple of decades has been dramatic. After many years in decline, the continent's economy picked up in the mid-1990s. Along with this macroeconomic growth, people became healthier, many more youngsters attended schools, and the rate of extreme...

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Republic of Philippines : Mindanao Skills Development Strategy for Poverty Reduction

World Bank Group - 2019

This report consolidates written outputs from the Technical Assistance to Support the Elaboration of Mindanao Human Resource Development (HRD) Strategy, which was requested by the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) and undertaken by the World Bank under the auspices of the Australia-World...

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Inclusive Value Chains to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa

Swinnen, Johan - 2020

The rapid transformation of agri-food value chains in Africa and other developing countries hasimportant implications for economic growth and poverty reduction. Policy makers increasinglyrecognize this but there is a need for a better understanding of what value chain transformationentails and...

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Ethiopia Poverty Assessment : Harnessing Continued Growth for Accelerated Poverty Reduction

World Bank Group - 2020

This poverty assessment focuses on the evolution of poverty and other social indicators in Ethiopia between 2010-11 and 2015-2016 (henceforth referred to as 2011 and 2016). Using data from a variety of sources, mainly the twinned household living standards surveys (HCES and WMS), the Ethiopia...

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Gabon : Increasing Economic Diversification and Equalizing Opportunity to Accelerate Poverty Reduction

World Bank Group - 2020

This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) analyzes the economic and social context of Gabon and what it can do today to end extreme poverty and enhance shared prosperity. It also identifies priority routes to faster progress. Two critical pathways to sustained inclusive growth and shared...

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Ethiopia Poverty Assessment : Harnessing Continued Growth for Accelerated Poverty Reduction

World Bank Group - 2020

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Development as freedom in a digital age : experiences of the rural poor in Bolivia

Gigler, Björn-Sören - 2015

Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people's...

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Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016 : Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change

2015 - Online-Ausg.

The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change details the progress toward the global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. Part I examines global development progress, the unfinished development...

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