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La forte croissance demographique, les compressions budgetaires et l'exode rural ont entraine une augmentation de la demande d'emplois en Afrique de l'Ouest. Cette demande ne peut pas etre satisfaite par les entreprises du secteur structure, et le secteur informel a absorbe une part considerable...
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This paper reviews a small community-based school feeding program launched in Togo in response to the 2007/08 food price crisis. The discussion focuses on the operational and policy lessons emerging from the program, to better understand opportunities for scale up and sustainability in the...
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Disability and poverty are dynamic and intricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, a large body of empirical … disabilities and their households in 2003 in the countries under study, it can inform national disability policies. Finally, this … study can also inform future data and research efforts on disability in developing countries. This study is structured as …
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bilateral development agencies, aimed at including disability in development. Development that includes disability, as … beneficiaries. It can be achieved by disability specific initiatives, by adding disability-specific components to development … programs, by fully inclusive programming, designed to include disability concerns into all development processes, or by a …
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The objectives of this paper are: i) to present the record of World Bank's involvement in disability as part of its … the further mainstreaming of disability into the work of the Bank. The Bank's comparative advantage in supporting … disability interventions lies in its capacity to address complex, multi-sectoral issues in a consistent, coordinated, fiscally …
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disability and poverty.The authors find that using standard assumptions about the distribution of household consumption among … typically do not include any questions about the disability status of household members. Only in one region of the Bank's work …
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In order to answer the questions of (a) what is the true pattern of disability in Kazakhstan; (b) whether the incidence … of disability is decreasing; and (c) what is the life expectancy of Kazakhstan's disabled, this paper attempts first to … create an historical picture of disability in Kazakhstan by analyzing government population statistics and studying the …
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Health Organization's (WHO's) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the social model … of disability. The authors believe these measures can become important tools in monitoring the implementation of the … follows: after briefly describing the social model of disability and the ICF, the authors present a series of indicators for …
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The Country Opinion Survey in Haiti assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Haiti perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...
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