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"Quisumbing and Yohannes use the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey to examine the gender dimensions of public works. They use three rounds of a panel conducted in 1994--95 to explore the determinants of participation in, days worked, wages, and earnings from wage labor, food-for-work (FFW), and...

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Poverty decline, agricultural wages, and non-farm employment in rural India : 1983-2004

Lanjouw, Peter - 2009

explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states …

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Poverty Assessment : Poverty in Pakistan - Vulnerabilities, Social Caps, and Rural Dynamics

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This report is part of an ongoing project to understand poverty, growth, and human development in Pakistan. It argues that if the country does not close its social gap, its long-term ability to grow economically, alleviate poverty, and sustain its debt will be fundamentally compromised. Spanning...

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Cambodia : Rural Sector Strategy Note, Towards a Strategy for Rural Growth and Poverty Reduction

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Recovering from three decades of conflict, over this last decade, Cambodia has undergone dramatic economic, political, and social transitions. Cambodia experienced rapid institutional changes as it restored peace, moved from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy, and moved from...

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Mozambique's economy has experienced strong growth over the last two decades, with GDP expanding at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent. However, this growth has been unequally shared and rural areas still lag far behind urban centers in both monetary and non-monetary dimensions of wellbeing....

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Kyrgyz Republic - Agricultural Policy Update : Sustaining Pro-poor Rural Growth, Rural Challenges for Government and Donors

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Critical choices must now be made if growth is to be sustained. Significant potential exists for future growth, but bringing out this potential poses a major challenge for government policy. Agricultural strategy must shift its focus towards support for continuous productivity growth by peasant...

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Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

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"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank … 6,000 households in India undertaken by the authors. The main findings and implications of the paper are as follows …

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Rural Poverty Alleviation in Brazil : Toward an Integrated Strategy

World Bank - 2013

The objective of this report is to design an integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in Brazil. It contains an updated and detailed profile of the rural poor in the northeast and southeast regions of Brazil; identifies key determinants of rural poverty in these regions; and proposes a...

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Rural Poverty Alleviation in Brazil : Towards an Integrated Strategy, Volume 2. Technical Papers

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This report finalized in March 2001 constitutes a step toward the objective of designing an integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in Brazil, The report contains an updated and more detailed profile of the rural poor in the northeast (NE) and southeast (SE) of Brazil; identifies key...

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