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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) prepared by the Burkinabè government forms the principal benchmark for all development actors, and reaffirms the urgency of attacking poverty from a structural perspective. It is the primary tool for coordination of all interventions and of public aid...
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The growth rate of agriculture in Cameroon was estimated at 3.3 percent in 2006, compared with 2.7 percent in 2005. This is owing to increased activity in the food agriculture sector (4.3 percent) and in forestry and logging (4.0 percent). Livestock farming and fisheries, on the one hand, grew...
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drastically. Income poverty remains high. People’s access to energy, water, communications, education, and health services …
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larger has been the role of the declining share of household income in national income, which has occurred across …-the-board in wages, investment income, and government transfers. The paper finds that financial sector weaknesses, by restricting … income shares low and on a declining trend. …
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importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model …
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€˜buffer stock’ model of optimal consumption in the presence of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model …
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productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … percentage point a year. This would be enough to close the income gap with the EU average by 2040, compared to the status quo …
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In this study, the following are listed: GDP by sector and expenditure, gross industrial output by sector, employment … by sector, industrial employment by sector, indicators of hidden unemployment, selected labor market indicators … income, federal government budget execution, regional and local government operations, extrabudgetary fund operations …
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The Welfare Improvement Strategy (WIS) of Uzbekistan has the objective of improving living standards of its people with the help of strong economic policies for all priority areas of development. The report reviews economic and social policies and assesses the living standards of its people. It...
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The health of the population in Guinea is also one of the determinants of poverty, owing to its impact on the ability of the population to work with vigor. There are large disparities depending on the urban/rural residence and administrative region. In terms of the poverty level of households,...
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