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Tanzania was again one of the top growth performers in the region. Official GDP figures show that growth remained … from last year's contraction. The Government's Tanzania Development Vision 2025 and the Five-Year Development Plan (FYDP II …) set out ambitious goals for reducing poverty and sustainably industrializing so that the country can achieve middle …
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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …
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"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …
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"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … analysis of the DDA Framework Agreement pays particularly close attention to potential reforms in agriculture. The scenarios … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a …
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International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...
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, this year's World Development Report, argues that services can be improved by putting poor people at the center of service … of the most important ways poor people can escape from poverty. To achieve these goals, economic growth and financial … resources are of course necessary, but they are not enough. The World Development Report provides a practical framework for …
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the key to economic growth for nations, and to reducing poverty for individuals. This report is about enhancing …, and individuals. This overview is a presage to the World Development Report 2002, which shows that institutional strength …
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