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Agriculture is an economic activity important to achieving the poverty reduction strategy goals of Tanzania. Growth in …
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Drawing on longitudinal Q-Squared data from six research sites across mainland Tanzania, this paper examines how and …
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This paper examines the relation between government and poverty in Tanzania through the medium of participation …
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Tanzania over five years (2004-08). The paper examines specifically why high economic growth during the period of Tanzania …
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HIV/AIDS is both a cause and a symptom of chronic poverty and requires new and innovative policy instruments and … explores the appropriateness of different social protection mechanisms for supporting households living with HIV/AIDS and … – for tackling chronic poverty among people living with HIV/AIDS …
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Facing rapid demographic, social and economic transformation, China has taken steps to extend and strengthen the urban Minimum Living Standard Scheme (MLSS). The MLSS is a social assistance programme initially focused on the chronically poor, but later extended to the long-term unemployed. The...
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This policy brief emphasises that: evidence shows that large-scale, well-designed social-transfer programmes can support micro-level growth processes; social transfers enable investment in human capital and productive assets, laying the foundations for future growth; social transfers can improve...
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This working paper presents a review and analysis of the Kalomo Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme, initiated in November 2003 by the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) of the Republic of Zambia, in cooperation with German Technical Assistance (GTZ). The Zambian context...
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