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Indices of social development and their application to Africa

Haan, Arjan de; Foa, Roberto - 2014

This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa … minorities. This paper presents how the database can be used to compare the Africa region to global patterns, analyse divergence … across the continent, and explore the implications for our understanding of inclusive growth in Africa. …

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Impact of sectoral allocation of foreign aid on gender equity and human development

Pickbourn, Lynda; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2013

While developing countries have made some progress in achieving human development since the turn of the century, many are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation. Moreover, gender...

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Cambodia's land management and administration project

Biddulph, Robin - 2014

This paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian government had already attempted to implement...

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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies

Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014

Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effective in achieving these goals. This paper...

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Socio-economic development in South Asia : the past 50 years

Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018

The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...

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Viet Nam : the dragon that rose from the ashes

Tarp, Finn - 2018

This study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the Vietnamese people; and subsequent developments, which are...

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Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco : subnational insights

Akim, Al-mouksit; Sahel, Wissal - 2023

This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...

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Inequality and human development : the role of different parts of the income distribution

Castells-Quintana, David; Gradín, Carlos; Royuela, Vicente - 2022

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely on a large global panel of countries over the last...

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Are biofuels good for African development? : an analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …

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Populist strategies in African democracies

Resnick, Danielle - 2010

strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper … argues that the nature of party competition in Africa, combined with rapid urbanization and informalization of the labour … Africa intersect with voting behaviour and political party development. -- Africa ; democratization ; political parties …

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