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investments on rural poverty. Previous research shows that such targeting is not very accurate unless the geographic units are … small. Household surveys, however, rarely allow the estimation of poverty rates for more than 5-10 regions in a country …. This study develops a method for generating disaggregated poverty maps and applies the method to Viet Nam. First, the …
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and internal rice trade. Rice Market Liberalization and Poverty in Viet Nam, Research Report 114, analyzes whether further …
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on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …
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effects of regional investments intended to reduce regional poverty and also to explore policy options to deal with a number …
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In this paper we used a dynamic, regionalized computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the effect of various negative balance of payments shocks on output and employment and the effect of different alternative investment strategies on growth. The model shows clearly how sensitive El...
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impact on regional disparities and food security and would have beneficial effects on farm pricesand poverty, giving a degree …
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In February 1987, the Government of Pakistan (GOP) abolished the wheat ration shop system. Started as a food rationing program during World War II in colonial India, it had degenerated by the 1980s into a wasteful corrupt system that failed to reach the poor. Why did it take so long for this...
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Government of Vietnam for the need to analyze water resource allocation and use in an integrated fashion, at the basin scale, and … economic-hydrologic river basin model for the Dong Nai River Basin in southern Vietnam that attempts to address these issues …
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The devastating environmental effects of deforestation and the exploitation of other natural resources in the developing world have been well documented, yet their impact on local communities has received far less attention. This report looks at how land degradation and deforestation are being...
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