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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051866
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008383
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390600
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Poverty traps, aid, and growth
Kraay, Aart; Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085178
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Aid allocation and poverty reduction
Collier, Paul; Dollar, David - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001365950
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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation
Verme, Paolo - 2012
This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552449
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Roads out of Poverty? Assessing the Links between Aid, Public Investment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction
Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Bayraktar, Nihal El; Aynaoui, Karim - 2012
The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty. Public investment is disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health, and affects both aggregate supply and demand. Dutch disease effects are captured by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553951
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Poverty Traps, Aid, and Growth
Kraay, Aart; Raddatz, Claudio - 2012
The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of development. They then use these models to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554090
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845778
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Conflict and poverty in Afghanistan's transition
Floreani, Vincent A.; López Acevedo, Gladys; Rama, Martín - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569249