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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building … on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the … costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten effective nutrition-specific interventions. This will require an annual …
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Ecuador is a country with exceptional natural resource and environmental advantages and challenges. It is strategically located and has considerable oil reserves in the interior and the coastal region. This document does not aim to describe the state of the environment in Ecuador. Rather, its...
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This report highlights the relationship between poverty, risk and vulnerability facing the people of Afghanistan. The report is divided in to five chapters: Chapter I provides a short historical overview of poverty and vulnerability and highlights some of the ways in which the Afghan people have...
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). Section two of the report discusses some of the key challenges facing the urban poor, namely how to integrate labor markets …
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Chapter 3 looks more closely on what happened to rural incomes, employment, labor markets and the characteristics of rural …
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providing risk-pooling mechanisms where private insurance markets fail (e.g., old age and health insurance), but the role of … consequences for equity and poverty reduction outcomes. The economic trade?off between growth and equity, and thus between growth …
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As the second largest African oil producer, Angola had unsustainable government expenditures in effect until 2014 due to the drop in international oil prices. The Government responded with a comprehensive reform program including the gradual elimination of most fuel subsidies and an extension of...
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important to evaluate public spending and trade-offs in the context of where public funds are currently being spent and what …
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The economic updates aim to share knowledge and stimulate debate among those interested in improving the economic management of Cameroon and unleashing its enormous potential. The notes thereby offer another voice on economic issues in Cameroon, and an additional platform for engagement,...
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Tanzania has made significant economic progress in the recent past, with per capita national income almost doubling from United States (U.S.) 230 dollars equivalent in the late-1990s to U.S. 440 dollars. This report explores the role safety nets and transfers can play in reducing poverty more...
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