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Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them : an increased role for identity documents in the global South
Hunter, Wendy - 2016
Having a birth certificate is a stepping stone to acquiring an array of rights and benefits, including other documents necessary to navigate in and outside of one's home country. Despite its importance, many children in the developing world never obtain a birth certificate. Whether one does so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548222
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Aid and infrastructure financing : emerging challenges with a focus on Africa
Addison, Tony; Anand, Prathivadi Bhayankaram - 2012
, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to … very different role in facilitating the creation of institutional mechanisms that help mobilize more funding from other … ; infrastructure ; Africa ; finance ; funds ; private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541849
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Aid effectiveness : opening the black box
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260998
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John M.; Shimeles, Abebe - 2014
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010243497
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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa : evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania
Vivien Houngbonon, Georges; Bauer, Arthur; N'Diaye, … - 2014
In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410852
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Is there a Brazilian model of development? : are there lessons for countries in Africa?
Amann, Edmund; Barrientos, Armando - 2014
Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The paper argues that Brazil's unique combination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414801
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Africa's lockdown dilemma : high poverty and low trust
Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228037
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The global politics of social protection
Hickey, Sam; Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Africa. The paper places this move in historical perspective and examines the role that a particular aid agency played in … shaping the transfer of cash transfers to Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646247
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"Affordability" and the political economy of social protection in contemporary Africa
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Africa: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and the semi-autonomous territory of Zanzibar. In all four cases, political elites …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607264
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The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis
Gasior, Katrin; Tasseva, Iva V.; Wright, Gemma Clare - 2022
We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub-Saharan African countries-Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia-in normal times and times of widespread economic crisis. Using tax-benefit microsimulation models with...
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