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barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly harmful to the world's poorest people, as are barriers to worker …
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This paper delves into Bulgaria's persistent issue of child poverty, even amidst policy efforts at the European Union …' effectiveness in alleviating child poverty. Our results show that Bulgaria's fiscal system has a limited impact on the overall at …-risk of poverty rate, though it shows potential in reducing poverty for lower income deciles. Bulgaria's fiscal system reduces …
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policy instruments needed to tap mitigation opportunities in agriculture is incomplete. In particular, market … mitigation incentives, and missed mitigation opportunities in agriculture. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternative … policies designed to jointly promote mitigation and co-benefits for agriculture and the environment. …
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. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely …The relative contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its direct and indirect growth effects … as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture …
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Using cross-country and panel regressions, the authors show that financial sector development significantly reduces undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into beneficial income and general effects. They show...
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not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …
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less on selling household assets or livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance …
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(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …
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producers and consumers. In Ghana, the impact of a change in the price of rice is not ambiguous because a large share of the … comprehensive household survey, this paper provides an assessment of the potential impact of higher food prices on the poor in Ghana …, and other cereals would together lead to an increase in poverty, but that by contrast to a number of other countries, this …
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Matrix for Ghana. The paper finds that both the direct impacts of food prices and the indirect impacts of oil prices are …
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