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Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to … condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender …
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This paper presents evidence on rural Ethiopian households’ time allocation to different activities, especially fuel collection work, and examines the effect of changes in the availability of firewood resources on households’ time allocation to fuel collection and on- and off-farm...
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This paper seeks to provide a consistent and comparable set of data on the trends in the provision of aid to agriculture over time within the framework of changes in the pattern of sectoral distribution of total development aid. Furthermore, it examines the factors, relating both to the...
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complicated. In order to provide opportunities for Yemenis to escape the current situation of widespread poverty and food …
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, especially for the poor. Outcomes of alternative reform scenarios range from an increase in poverty of 2 to 6 percentage points …
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The poverty rate and income transfer are clearly correlated. However, not much research has attempted to determine the … causal linkage between the two. Previous research has primarily focused on the poverty-reducing impact of income transfer. In … relationship between the poverty rate and income transfer, using a sample of 3,001 U.S. counties. The results are in line with …
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This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at 36 months. It uses data collected on individuals who participated in a nutritional supplementation trial between 1969 and 1977 in rural Guatemala and who were subsequently...
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The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of … (Tanzania) traced between 1991 and 2004 have been affected by massive refugee inflows to assess how migration may affect poverty …
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as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …
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Endowed with 80 million hectares of arable land (of which only 10 percent are used), diverse climatic conditions, and abundant water resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to become the breadbasket of the entire African continent. Instead, the country is one of the...
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