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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor

World Bank Group - 2009

In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...

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Livable Cities for the 21st Century : The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank

Wolfensohn, James D. - 1997

Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...

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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country

Masson, Paul R. - 2001

The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration...

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Forecasting and monetary policy analysis in low-income countries : food and non-food inflation in Kenya

Andrle, Michal; Berg, Andrew; Morales, R. Armando; … - 2013

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Kenya Economic Update, April 2020 : Turbulent Times for Growth in Kenya -- Policy Options during the COVID-19 Pandemic

World Bank Group - 2020

affected by the novel coronavirus, Kenya's economy had decelerated. The World Bank estimates that GDP growth in 2019 was about …

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Kenya Public Expenditure Review 2020 : Options for Fiscal Consolidation after the COVID-19 Crisis

World Bank Group - 2020

and examines options for expenditure rationalization to help return Kenya's fiscal accounts to a prudent trajectory in the … controls in Kenya. It complements an ongoing governance for enabling service delivery and public investments in Kenya (GESDeK … while chapter three presents options for expenditure rationalization in Kenya. Chapter four ties it all together with fiscal …

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David - 2015

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

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Benefit Sharing in REDD+

World Bank - 2011

International policies to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) envisage the creation of financial incentive mechanisms that reward forest protection efforts and adequately compensate those actors that face new costs. In order for REDD+ to achieve these objectives,...

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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries : Lessons From their Experience

Ross, Kevin - 1998

The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s. Developments in a sample of ten countries show that the main factors behind the buildup of debt were (1) exogenous (adverse terms of trade shocks or weather), (2) a lack of sustained...

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