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Gender Inequality in Multidimensional Welfare Deprivation in West Africa : The Case of Burkina Faso and Togo

Agbodji, Ako??t?? Ega; Batana, Y??l?? Maweki; … - 2013

counting approach to examine gender issues in Burkina Faso and Togo using household surveys. Focusing on six dimensions … Burkina Faso, while the reverse situation is true in Togo. Gender inequality is observed in all dimensions since women always … contribution to gender inequality in Togo. There is also a positive correlation between multidimensional deprivation and women …

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World Food Prices and Human Development : Policy Simulations for Archetype Low-Income Countries

Lofgren, Hans - 2012

In recent years, world food prices have increased and fluctuated widely. This paper explores the impact of international food prices and domestic policies on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and macro indicators for two archetype low-income countries, a net food exporter and a net food...

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Achieving Accelerated and Shared Growth in Ghana : A MAMS-Based Analysis of Costs and Opportunities

Bogeti??, ??eljko; Medvedev, Denis; Bussolo, Maurizio - 2012

This paper relies on the recently developed Maquette for Millennium Development Goals Simulations (MAMS) model to assess the consistency of alternative scaling-up and policy packages for growth and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana. In the baseline scenario, Ghana's strong...

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals : Mauritania Should Care

Magnoli Bocchi, Alessandro; Pontara, Nicola; Fall, Khayar - 2012

Mauritania is a resource-rich developing country. As many other African nations, it will not reach most of the Millennium Development Goals, unless the authorities commit to accelerating progress. To succeed by 2015, the government needs to: mobilize additional financial resources, introduce...

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Aid, Service Delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an Economy-wide Framework

Bourguignon, Francois; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina; Lofgren, Hans - 2012

In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require careful planning of the sector allocation and sequencing of public spending. Especially...

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Challenges to MDG Achievement in Low Income Countries : Lessons from Ghana and Honduras

Bussolo, Maurizio; Medvedev, Denis - 2012

This paper summarizes the policy lessons from applications of the Maquette for MDG Simulations (MAMS) model to two low income countries: Ghana and Honduras. Results show that costs of MDGs achievement could reach 10-13 percent of GDP by 2015, although, given the observed low productivity in the...

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Linking Public Investment Programs and SPAHD Macro Models : Methodology and Application to Aid Requirements

Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Bayraktar, Nihal; Pinto … - 2012

The authors propose a "bottom up" approach to link public investment programs with a class of macro models recently developed to quantify Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD) in low-income countries. The methodology involves establishing constant-price projections of investment outlays...

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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Macroeconomic Monitoring Framework

Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Bayraktar, Nihal; Pinto … - 2012

The authors present an integrated macroeconomic approach to monitoring progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of their approach is a macroeconomic model that captures key linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated...

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Social Protection, Poverty and the Post-2015 Agenda

Fiszbein, Ariel; Kanbur, Ravi; Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2013

Social protection is absent from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and only recently has gained some prominence in the post-2015 discourse. In the past quarter century, however, rising inequality has often accompanied economic growth. At the same time, the growing importance of risk and...

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Liberia : Strategic Policy Options for Medium Term Growth and Development

Dessus, S??bastien; Hoffman, Jariya; Lofgren, Hans - 2013

The objective of this paper is to inform Liberia's medium-term growth and development strategy for 2012-17 and its National Vision: Liberia Rising 2030, both of which are under preparation. The analysis is based on MAMS (Maquette for MDG [Millennium Development Goal]) Simulations, a computable...

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