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following sound monetary and fiscal policies. Finally, the report's third message focuses on the poverty situation in Kenya …
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Poor people derive most of their income from work; however, there is insufficient understanding of the role of employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how...
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Vietnam has achieved remarkable success in reducing poverty while controlling inequality. The country's broad-based growth reflects the government's focus on developing labor-intensive export sectors while investing heavily in human capital that saw the country exceed its peers. However, gains...
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"Minimum wages are generally thought to be unenforceable in developing rural economies. But there is one solution - a workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor...
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About half of Kenya's rural population (approximately 9 million people) was the poverty line in 1992, a proportion … poverty line. In the early 1980s, Kenya's social indicators were distinctly more favorable than those of most countries in the … differences between rural and urban areas and between the poor and the non-poor. These are the findings of the Kenya poverty …
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A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) was undertaken by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kenya … to complement previous statistical studies of poverty in Kenya. While the PPA confirmed many findings of the Welfare …
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This assessment of poverty and inequality comes at an important juncture for Kenya. The December 2007 elections and … in Kenya as well as designing policies to minimize the impact of the current global crisis. …
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examines the degree to which recovering mobility levels impacted labor market outcomes in Kenya over the course of the pandemic …
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