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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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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence...

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Picking the Poor : Indicators for Geographic Targeting in Peru

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2000

. The author empirically compares geographic targeting indicators available in Peru. He combines household-level information … from the 1994 and 1997 Peru Living Standards Measurement Surveys and district-level information from the 1993 Peru … substantial potential for geographic targeting in Peru. The differences in outcomes across geographic targeting indicators are …

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Making the Most of Demographic Change in Southern Africa

Ahmed, S. Amer; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2016

The countries of the Southern African Customs Union have relatively diverse demographic and economic starting points. These economies have the potential to realize demographic dividends and experience an acceleration in their income per capita growth and poverty reduction progress through...

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Shifting Patterns of Economic Growth and Rethinking Development

Lin, Justin Yifu; Rosenblatt, David - 2012

This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world and the evolution of economic thought on development policy. The 20th century was broadly characterized by divergence between high-income countries and the developing world, with...

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Escaping the Capability Trap : Turning "Small" Development into "Big" Development

Campos, J. Edgardo; Randrianarivelo, Benjamina; Winning, Kay - 2014

The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...

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Culture, Politics, and Development

Woolcock, Michael - 2014

Whether in the domains of scholarship or practice, important advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today s leading theorists of culture and development represent a fourth distinctive perspective vis-à-vis their...

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa

Balistreri, Edward J.; Maliszewska, Maryla; … - 2016

Evidence indicates that trade costs are a much more substantial barrier to trade than tariffs are, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) trade facilitation, (ii) non-tariff barriers, and (iii) the costs of business services. The paper assesses the poverty...

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How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

Ravallion, Martin - 2013

Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though...

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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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