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World Bank Group - 2016

The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of … Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choices and … rationale for those choices; c) the challenges women face when trying to access justice institutions; and d) women …

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Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Urbanization, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda

World Bank Group - 2017

This note analyzes whether and how the country's rising urbanization levels (measured primarily by population density) are associated with nonfarm job creation and poverty reduction. By focusing on Rwanda's 416 geographic sectors for the decade from 2002 and 2012, the analysis shows that,...

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Greater Maputo : Urban Poverty and Inclusive Growth

World Bank Group - 2017

The overall objective of the Maputo Urban Poverty and Inclusive Growth Study is to inform the municipal governments of Maputo and Matola in the Greater Maputo Area (GMA) on how to better target and finance urban poverty reduction programs by building critical knowledge on urban poverty and...

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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor

World Bank Group - 2009

In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...

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Gender Dynamics in Access to Justice in Afghanistan

World Bank Group - 2014

well as non-state justice institutions. State justice institutions are those which represent the central government and the … formal legal system. Non-state justice institutions include a range of both traditional and new community organizations, such …-state justice institutions, as can be the case for mullahs. This study looks at the gender dynamics of access to justice services in …

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Leveraging Procedural Reforms to Improve Commercial Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina

World Bank Group - 2019

This report focuses on recommendations for the improvement of civil procedure rules and selected trial processes with the aim to increase procedural efficiency and reduce bottlenecks in commercial case processing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The following aspects of case processing are analyzed:...

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The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa: A Decomposable Gini Analysis.

Leibbrandt, M.V.; Woolard, C.D.; Woolard, I.D. - World Bank Group - 1996

Households in developing countries adopt livelihood strategies that often rely on income from a diversity of sources. From a policy perspective it therefore becomes important to understand the relative importance of income sources in driving inter-household inequality and poverty.

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Social Development and Absolute Poverty in Asia and Latin America.

De Geyndt, W. - World Bank Group - 1996

A social development perspective is used to seek an answer to the question: why is the incidence of absolute poverty so different among developing countries in East Asia, South Asia and Latin America?

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