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The Poverty Reduction Capacity of Private and Public Transfers in Transition
Verme, Paolo - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2010
The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country … effective in improving welfare and reducing poverty whereas social assistance transfers have little or no effect. Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873308
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Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085396