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Unpaid Work and the Economy : Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries

Antonopoulos, Rania (ed.); Hirway, Indira (ed.) - 2010

This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making.

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Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality : A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluation Evidence

Independent Evaluation Group - 2016

beyond World Bank experience. It is intended to be used a reference for practitioners in the Bank and elsewhere with an …

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The World Bank Group and the global food crisis : an evaluation of the World Bank Group response

World Bank - 2014 - Online-Ausg.

.25 a day, equivalent to 22.4 percent of the developing world population. In addition, the Food and Agriculture Organization … people and the undernourished increased by 63 million in 2008.The World Bank organized rapidly for short-term support in the … for agricultural market participants. This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group response in …

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2002 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness : Achieving Development Outcomes: The Millennium Challenge

Carvalho, Soniya - 2003

This is the sixth Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), covering the year 2002, whose findings indicate that the Bank's country, sector, and global programs are consistent with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) themes, increasingly focused on poverty reduction. The review...

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Great Divergence and Great Convergence : A Global Perspective

Grinin, Leonid - 2015

Colo-nies Became the World Economic Locomotives -- Afterword. The Great Convergence and Possible Increase in Global … Instability, or the World without an Absolute Leader. …This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing …

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Addressing Country-Level Fiscal and Financial Sector Vulnerabilities : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group's Contributions

Independent Evaluation Group - 2021

More than a decade has passed since the global economic and financial crisis rocked the world. A clear lesson that … of the importance of proactively managing vulnerabilities to shocks. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess World …

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The Three Regularities in Development : Growth, Jobs and Macro Policy in Developing Countries

Mahmood, Moazam - 2018

the structural constraints and imbalances underpinning such global problems, the world economy is doomed to experience an …

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Global Business in Local Culture : The Impact of Embedded Multinational Enterprises

Aerni, Philipp - 2018

This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...

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The Impact of Mobile Phones on Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries

James, Jeffrey - 2016

This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual...

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Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies : Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age

Mazza, Jacqueline - 2017

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty - good jobs, schools, and training -...

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