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for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …
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undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …
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Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …
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This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BENCHMARK: PRINCIPLES OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM -- III. UGANDA'S DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS: THE INSTITUTIONS -- IV. SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IN SERVICE DELIVERY -- V. FINAL REMARKS -- References.
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This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …
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poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …
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impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …
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We document the evolution of poverty and inequality across Indian states during the recent period of rapid growth (2004 …-09), and examine the role of growth and distribution in reducing poverty. Robust economic growth has been a major driver of … poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in …
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Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial self-selection by households who acquire knowledge about the program and apply for benefits, followed by an administrative determination of eligibility based on a means test....
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