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A Manual for Planning and Implementing the Living Standards Measurement Study Survey.
Grosh, M.E.; Munoz, J. - World Bank Group - 1996
This manual explains the planning process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys, including what these procedures entail, why they are used, and how they can be implemented.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626136
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475234
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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?
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670021
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Infrastructure and Poverty in Vietnam.
Van de Walle, D. - World Bank Group - 1996
This study uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey of 1992-93 to examine the association between household living standards and the level of access to various infrastructural services.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475250
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Review of Early Childhood Policy and Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Colletta, N.J.; Reinhold, A.J. - World Bank Group - 1997
The present review explores ways of meeting these developmental challenges. It focuses on efforts that address the intersecting health, nutrition, and early education needs of children up to six years old in their institutional and socio-cultural environments. The paper also reviews current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486415
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Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
World Bank Group - 2021
Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817592
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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality
World Bank Group - 2020
Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644298
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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
World Bank Group - 2020
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647071
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Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank's Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
World Bank Group - 2020
This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647409
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Assessing Country Readiness for COVID-19 Vaccines : First Insights from the Assessment Rollout
World Bank Group - 2021
availability of safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19, the World Bank together with WHO, UNICEF, the Global Fund, and Gavi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521843