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The Union of the Comoros’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRGS) paper reports that the government⠅
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This paper focuses on the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction for Bangladesh. The paper discusses that …. Moreover, there are critical follow-up issues, which will determine the success of the poverty reduction strategy. …
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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 … administrative region. In terms of the poverty level of households, consultation rates among households in the first and second …
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Using panel data from 120 developing countries from 1975 to 2000, this paper explores the direct and indirect channels linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health spending have a positive and significant direct...
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undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …
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Remittance flows appear to be falling worldwide for the first time in decades as a result of the ongoing financial turmoil. It is suspected that the drop in remittance income into developing and emerging markets will have a destabilizing effect on these economies. The paper estimates the impact...
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Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …
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This paper focuses on the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development (SCADD) for Burkina Faso. It provides an overview of a decade of development, takes stock of the recent performance of Burkina Faso in various areas, and identifies the main challenges. The paper spells out a...
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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 …
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/2015. The Ethiopian government’s main development agenda has been poverty eradication. The government has designed, and is …
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