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Can dreams come true? : eliminating extreme poverty in Africa by 2030

Ncube, Mthuli; Brixiova, Zuzana; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

With the year 2015 - the MDG finishing line - approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …

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Growth and poverty in Africa : shifting fortunes and new perspectives

Shimeles, Abebe - 2014

Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted … Africa and addresses whether or not previously held belief that Africa is too poor to grow is relevant today. The findings … employment, particularly to increase in employment in the industrial sector, than to increase in mean income. In Africa the co …

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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014

A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...

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The impact of positive and negative income changes on the height and weight of young children

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Plug, Erik J. S.; … - 2014

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...

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The effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction program on schooling

Bertoni, Marco; Quynh Huynh; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019

This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school enrolment, using longitudinal data that span over 15 years and a difference-in-differences research design. We find that early treatment (at age 8) increases children enrolment by...

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Access to banking services and poverty reduction : a state-wise assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar - 2009

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...

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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty

Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...

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Understanding poverty among the elderly in India: implications for social pension policy

Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); … - 2008

The Government of India is implementing a new policy which dramatically increases funding for a cash transfer program targeted to the poor elderly. The expansion of this 'social pension' in terms of coverage and benefit levels is taking place with little understanding of poverty among India's...

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Rural people's perception of poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn (contributor); Yue, Ximing (contributor) - 2006

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of cash necessary for their households. The respondent's perception of how much cash is needed varies...

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Estimating the impacts of Bolivia's protected areas on poverty

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Hanauer, Merlin M. - 2012

Protected areas represent a powerful policy tool for the preservation of ecosystems and their services. The rapid proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on surrounding populations. Recent studies from other...

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