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The care connection: The World Bank and women.s unpaid care work in select sub-Saharan African countries

Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

With the aim of reducing women.s greater unpaid care work than men.s and increasing women.s paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 Worl

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Donor Assistance and Urban Service Delivery in Africa

Stren, Richard - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Sub-Saharan African cities have been growing at historically unprecedented rates. Since the early 1970s, they have welcomed international assistance involving a succession of major thematic objectives. The main agency involved in urban assistance has been

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The World Bank.s health projects in Timor-Leste: The political economy of effective aid

Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The World Bank.s health sector projects in Timor-Leste.the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project.have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country

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International Organizations in Development and Global Inequality: The example of the World Bank.s pension policy

Koch, Martin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Initial models of development debates on how to achieve economic growth have been added to by a focus on social issues such as education and political participation. These debates and discourses about development are shaped by international organizations

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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments: The gender dimension

Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out stru

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Policies to Roll-back the State and Privatize? Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Investigated

World Institute for Development Economic Research …; … - 2001

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Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys: Evidence from Zimbabwe

Gundersen, Craig; Kuku, Yemisi; Kelly, Thomas - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

reports of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Previous studies have taken only the views of the household head into consideration in …

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Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in Zimbabwe

Bird, Kate; Prowse, Martin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe?one peri-urban, one urban and one rural?to provide … Zimbabwe?s recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott?s work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

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How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Agbor, Julius A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This paper investigates some of the existing hypotheses regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic growth. The fact that different colonial strategies were pursued by different colonizers in various territories suggests possible ramifications for current...

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The structural anatomy and institutional architecture of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Thorbecke, Erik - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The distinct features of inclusive growth within the context of sub-Saharan Africa are identified. The anatomy of growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears to have been re

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