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Ravallion, Martin - 1997

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Decentralization : the way forward for rural development?

Parker, Andrew N. - 1995

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Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania

Ferreira, M. Luisa - 1996

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Who gets AIDS and how? : the determinants of HIV infection and sexual behaviors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

De Walque, Damien - 2006

"This paper analyzes the determinants of HIV infection and associated sexual behaviors using data from the first five Demographic and Health Surveys to include HIV testing for a representative sample of the adult population. Emerging from a wealth of country relevant results, four important...

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Implications of WTO agreements and unilateral trade policy reforms for poverty in Bangladesh : short versus long-run impacts

Annabi, Nabil - 2006

poverty in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account … accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The study is based on the 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Bangladesh … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …

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Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries

Anderson, Kym - 2004

"Anderson offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty. After discussing links...

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Trade, standards, and the political economy of genetically modified food

Anderson, Kym - 2004

"Anderson, Damania, and Jackson develop a common-agency lobbying model to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Their results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policymakers to influence...

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Foreign aid's impact on public spending

Feyzioglu, Tarhan N. - 1996

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Aid, service delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an economy-wide framework

Bourguignon, François - 2008

"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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Does aid help improve economic institutions ?

Coviello, Decio - 2006

"Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect institutions directly. In theory, these effects may or may not work in the same direction as those on investment. The authors examine the effect of aid on economic institutions and find...

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