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Albania - Urban Growth, Migration and Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment

World Bank - 2012

This sector report claims that in the three years between 2002 and 2005 alone, almost 235,000 people have moved out of poverty in Albania. Strong economic growth and large inflow of remittances are at the center of this impressive achievement. However, low productivity of predominantly small...

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Harnessing Urbanization to End Poverty and Boost Prosperity in Africa

World Bank - 2014

Urbanization is the single most important transformation that the African continent will undergo this century. More … than half of Africa's population will live in its cities by 2040. In the face of rapid urbanization, there is a narrow … through the urbanization process and in some countries, a large number of people reside in rural areas. Rapid urbanization, if …

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Cities on the move : a World Bank urban transport strategy review

Gwilliam, K. M. (contributor) - World Bank - 2002

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Cities on the Move : A World Bank Urban Transport Strategy Review

World Bank - 2013

The report's objectives are i) to better understand the nature and magnitude of urban transport problems, particularly in respect of the poor, and ii) to articulate a strategy by which the World Bank and other agencies can assist national and city governments to address these problems. The first...

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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency

World Bank - 2009

A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...

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Global monitoring report 2011 : improving the odds of achieving the MDGs ; heterogeneity, gaps, and challenges

2011

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals : Mauritania should care

Bocchi, Alessandro Magnoli (contributor) - 2008

"Mauritania is a resource-rich developing country. As many other African nations, it will not reach most of the Millennium Development Goals, unless the authorities commit to accelerating progress. To succeed by 2015, the government needs to: mobilize additional financial resources, introduce...

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Structural change and poverty reduction in Brazil : the impact of the DOHA round

Mauricio - 2006

"Over the medium time horizon, skill upgrading, differentials in sectoral technological progress, and migration of labor out of farming activities are some of the major structural adjustment factors shaping the evolution of an economy and its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the...

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Sustaining gains in poverty reduction and human development in the Middle East and North Africa

Iqbal, Farrukh - 2006

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Agricultural growth for the poor : an agenda for development

2005

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