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and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less … levels of resource rents can end up with significantly different achievements in terms of poverty, inequality, health, and …
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Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …
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The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it … proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It …
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Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit the percentiles of the income distribution in different...
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of urbanization in Uganda and what this means for urban policy planning and poverty reduction in the country. Although … urban areas in the country. Most importantly, welfare and poverty indicators have not shown marked improvements (in absolute … marginalization of city residents. -- transitions ; urbanization ; planning ; poverty ; Uganda …
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growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We identify key weaknesses, including lack of structural transformation …
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Since the early 2000s international development agencies have actively promoted social protection as a new global public policy. This process can be understood as flowing from related shifts within the global political economy and of development ideology, and involved international development...
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association with poverty. We find that people seldom transition from one work status to another across all countries. The … India are associated with upward mobility. Moving up the job ladder is linked to the probability of reducing poverty in all … of poverty compared with a worker who does not experience such mobility, while in India, the corresponding estimate is 2 …
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