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Poverty Assessment : Poverty in Pakistan - Vulnerabilities, Social Caps, and Rural Dynamics
World Bank - 2013
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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Mexico - Income Generation and Social Protection for the Poor : Volume 4. A Study of Rural Poverty in Mexico
World Bank - 2012
This study is part of the second phase of a long-term programmatic work on poverty in Mexico, in three phases being … carried out by the Bank at the request of the Government of Mexico. Reasons for a study on rural poverty, are because the size … and intensity of the phenomenon, poverty, and inequality in rural Mexico are a matter of concern not only from the well …
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Mexico - Income Generation and Social Protection for the Poor : Volume 2. Urban Poverty in Mexico
World Bank - 2012
Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer … relies on a recent survey conducted by Mexico, to look in more depth at life in Mexico's poor urban barrios (neighborhoods …
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An evaluation of the performance of regression discontinuity design on progresa
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2004
. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purpose of evaluating the impact of the …
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Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs : lessons from Latin America
Rawlings, Laura - 2003
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PKH Conditional Cash Transfer
World Bank - 2012
This is a first for Indonesia: Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) is the only household-targeted social assistance initiative to have designed randomized impact evaluation into the initial allocation of the program. This brings three major benefits for policymakers: 1) the evidence available for...
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Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor
Basu, Priya - 2005
"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 Linkage initiative. It empirically analyzes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522554
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Using an asset-based approach to identify drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America : a conceptual framework
Siegel, Paul - 2005
"The asset-based approach considers links between households' productive, social, and locational assets; the policy, institutional, and risk context; household behavior as expressed in livelihood strategies; and well-being outcomes. For sustainable poverty reducing growth, it is critical to...
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Rural poverty alleviation in Brazil : toward an integrated strategy
2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523533
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China : overcoming rural poverty
2001
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