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Simulating the impact of geographic targeting on poverty alleviation in Morocco : what are the gains from disaggregation ?

Douidich, Mohammed - 2008

"The authors employ the recently completed "poverty map" for Morocco, referring to the year 2004, as a tool for an ex-ante evaluation of the distributional incidence of geographic targeting of public resources. They simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to...

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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2008

"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...

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Poverty alleviation and child labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2008

"Does child labor decrease as household income rises? This question has important implications for the design of policy on child labor. This paper focuses on a program of unconditional cash transfers in Ecuador. It argues that the effect of a small increase in household income on child labor...

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals : Mauritania should care

Bocchi, Alessandro Magnoli (contributor) - 2008

"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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Conditional cash transfers, adult work incentives, and poverty

Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2006

examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …'s evaluation sample, the authors find that the program does not have any significant effect on adult labor force participation and …

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Strengthening governance through engaged societies : lessons from the implementation of poverty reduction strategies

Sharkey, Katrina - 2006

-oriented, partnership-oriented, and built on broad-based participation. Against this tall order of business, experience to date has been … approach from the point of view of participation and accountability. For some 50 countries adopting the approach since 1999, it …

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Integrated urban upgrading for the poor : the experience of Ribeira Azul, Brazil

Baker, Judy L. - 2006

participation playing a major role in the design and implementation. This approach is now perceived to be highly successful in terms … time. Key findings point to the importance of community participation, clear roles and responsibilities in institutional … arrangements, the need for strong local government participation, and the high costs and challenges of providing housing for the …

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Structural change and poverty reduction in Brazil : the impact of the DOHA round

Mauricio - 2006

"Over the medium time horizon, skill upgrading, differentials in sectoral technological progress, and migration of labor out of farming activities are some of the major structural adjustment factors shaping the evolution of an economy and its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the...

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Pending issues in protection, productivity growth, and poverty reduction

Arias, Omar (contributor) - 2005

"This paper selectively synthesizes much of the research on Latin American and Caribbean labor markets in recent years. Several themes emerge that are particularly relevant to ongoing policy dialogues. First, labor legislation matters, but markets may be less segmented than previously thought....

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Creating a poverty map for Azerbaijan

Baschieri, Angela - 2005

""Poverty maps"-that is, graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare-are being increasingly used to geographically target scarce resources. But the development of detailed poverty maps in many low resource settings is hampered because of data constraints. Data on...

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