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Colombia's 2012 Tax Reform : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
World Bank - 2014
Colombia's income tax reform serve the intended purpose of reducing income inequality. Results based on the constructed full … last 10 years was 0.51 percentage points, the estimated reduction in Colombia's Gini coefficient is not trivial. These …
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Socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in Vanuatu
World Bank - 2022
The Pacific Observatory is a World Bank analytical program that aims to improve welfare for the poor and vulnerable in Vanuatu and the Pacific Island Countries through expanding socio-economic information for better data-driven policymaking. This presentation utilizes data from the Pacific...
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Socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in Solomon Islands
World Bank - 2022
The Pacific Observatory is a World Bank initiative to increase data availability and quality and to promote evidence-based policy decisions. This presentation utilizes data from the Pacific Observatory's high frequency phone surveys in Solomon Islands to detail socio-economic indicators related...
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Household investment under violence : the Colombian case
Grun, Rebekka E. - 2008
appropriate political answer to chronic violence in Colombia as well as in other areas of chronic conflict. "--World Bank web site …"Households in rural Colombia are confronted with a variety of violent threats: attacks and displacement threats by … guerrillas and paramilitaries, gang violence among drug traffickers, and high common delinquency. In this context, households …
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Violence in Colombia : building sustainable peace and social capital
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Gender-Based Violence Country Profile
World Bank - 2023
St. Vincent and the Grenadines comprises a main island, Saint Vincent, and thirty-two other islands, islets, and cays in the archipelago of the Grenadines (SVG). It is a unicameral democracy, with fifteen seats for elected members in the House of Representatives. Historically, much of the...
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Engaging Civil Society Organizations in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States : Three African Country Case Studies
World Bank - 2012
Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a prominent role in conflict-affected and fragile states. In the absence of capable or credible public institutions due to conflict or weak policy environments, CSOs tend to substitute for public institutions and become primary providers of basic social...
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Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in india
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Although there has been considerable recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs following this pattern....
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Lessons from World Bank research on financial crises
Development Research Group - 2008
"The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of...
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The impact of energy price changes in Moldova
Baclajanschi, Iaroslav - 2006
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