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This paper discusses Second National Poverty Reduction Strategy II (NPRS-II) (2012–2016) for Democratic Republic of São … Tomé and Príncipe. A comparison of the results of the 2000 and 2010 poverty profile, based on the average income method …, shows that there was progress in reducing poverty, albeit far less than expected. The ratio of the incidence of poverty …
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This paper on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers on Guinea explains medium-term development framework to achieve …
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. A key feature of the economic strategy has been an explicit commitment to poverty reduction and structural … hindering further broadening of growth across key sectors to reduce poverty, and highlights the main areas for policy action. …
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The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...
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This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe …. The National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper represents the result of analyses of the country’s current situation as well … as a set of proposals designed to rout the causes of poverty in São Tomé and Príncipe in the medium to long term, based …
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Full implementation of an intergovernmental transfer system based on revenue capacities and expenditure needs could significantly improve both redistribution and equity objectives of the Chinese authorities. This was envisaged in the 1994 fiscal reforms, but the authorities were unable to...
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The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400085
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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …
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