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(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve the effectiveness of programmes in reducing poverty have … gradually led the international community to use tools to reach the poor. Poverty reduction policy targeting is one of them …. This paper reviews targeted poverty alleviation policies in developing countries and seeks to identify the key factors that …
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“Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance Accélérée in French or SCA) in the fight against poverty. We start by an … Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The progress made, however, was not sufficient to significantly reduce the rural …
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The citizens of Madagascar, and especially the capital Antananarivo, display marked support for democracy : adoption of its principles, rejection of authoritarian regimes, etc. The poor populations are no different from the other social groups in this respect. Nevertheless, living in a poor...
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, poverty and inequality in developing countries. This relationship has been widely discussed by economists during the last few … is shown in the third part of the paper, most empirical studies on the relationship between trade, poverty and inequality … economic theory. The impact on poverty is more consistent to economic theory. These studies suggest that trade is not the main …
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Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half … growth strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper …
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This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cˆote d’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing the in-depth analysis of simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income: a change in the remuneration rates of...
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(English) The lack of success of past strategies in reducing poverty has raised doubts as to whether these strategies … poverty. Second, based on views expressed on a wide range of themes such as economic reform, liberalisation and democracy, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416724
The poor neighbourhoods of Antananarivo present an amalgamation of all urban ills: threat of flooding during the rainy season, overcrowded living conditions, almost complete lack of access to running water, frequent problems of drugs and violence, bad reputation, etc. These negative aspects are...
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(english) This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates of current trends based on national data and the method of projection are evaluated. The theory of urban transition is used as an alternative hypothesis for projections....
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The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...
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