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No household left behind : Afghanistan targeting the ultra poor impact evaluation

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Coville, Aidan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2019

increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas …-push" interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict-affected regions …

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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There … poor welfare outcomes contrasts with evidence from other conflict settings, and further contrasts with the rationale …

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Conflict and poverty : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper

Mueller, Hannes; Techasunthornwat, Chanon - 2020

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and conflict in the macro and regional data, including a detailed … that conflict has on health and expectations. Based on this evidence, it develops a statistical framework to track the … cumulative long-term impact that armed conflict has on poverty, which the paper calls conflict debt. The data confirm that …

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Targeting Impact versus Deprivation

Haushofer, Johannes; Niehaus, Paul; Paramo, Carlos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived" in some sense (e.g., consumption, wealth). A large literature in economics examines how to best identify these households feasibly at scale, usually via proxy means tests (PMTs)....

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Poverty traps, aid, and growth

Kraay, Aart; Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2005

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Aid allocation and poverty reduction

Collier, Paul; Dollar, David - 1999

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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System

Brown, Charles - 1985

This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007

This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a traditional or a modern technology. Public spending is productive and "time to build" requires expenditure in both periods for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a...

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Scaling up aid or scaling down : the global economic crisis and Rwanda's MDGs

Löfgren, Hans; Nielsen, Hannah; Ezemenari, Kenechukwu Maria - 2009

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Conflict and poverty in Afghanistan's transition

Floreani, Vincent A.; López Acevedo, Gladys; Rama, Martín - 2016

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