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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World

Rogger, Daniel - 2017

, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of civil …

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Willingness to pay for electricity access in extreme poverty : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2019

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor households' willingness-to-pay for different types of...

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Finding the poor vs. measuring their poverty : exploring the drivers of targeting effectiveness in Indonesia

Bah, Adama; Bazzi, Samuel; Sumarto, Sudarno; Tobias, Julia - 2018

Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …

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Do IFC Investments Reduce Poverty by Creating Jobs? : A Case Study of a Manufacturing Investment in Indonesia

Datar, Gayatri - 2012

.8 million. However, there has been no significant increase in Kabil in employment, and in fact a decrease in formality. Based on qualitative interviews in Batam, this expected. The investment resulted in the employment of many high-paid workers, as Ecogreen hired mostly skilled labor with...

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Targeting : Poor and Vulnerable Households in Indonesia

World Bank - 2012

Indonesia has experienced strong economic growth over the last forty years. At the same time, the proportion of … and another 30 percent remain highly vulnerable to falling into poverty in any given year. In addition, Indonesia has …. The coverage, design and implementation of these programs continue to be improved as social protection in Indonesia …

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Reducing Elderly Poverty in Thailand : The Role of Thailand's Pension and Social Assistance Programs

World Bank - 2012

This policy note examines Thailand's programs for preventing poverty among the elderly, and suggests options for … improving the effectiveness of these programs. The number of elderly people in Thailand will increase dramatically over the next … 30 years, and the elderly already have a higher poverty rate than the population as a whole. Although Thailand currently …

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PSIA : Power Sector Reforms and the Poor in Vietnam

Kozel, Valerie - 2010

Vietnam is implementing a long run reform agenda for the power sector, with the aim of restructuring the sector to … which started in 1995. The design and implementation of the power sector reform strategy has been supported through … technical assistance and lending operations, as well as preparation of a proposed series of Power Sector Reform Development …

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Does the environment matter for poverty reduction? : the role of soil fertility and vegetation vigor in poverty reduction

Heger, Martin; Zens, Gregor; Bangalor, Mook - 2018

The debate on the environment-poverty nexus is inconclusive, with past research unable to identify the causal dynamics. This paper uses a unique global panel data set that links (survey and census derived) poverty data to measures of environmental quality at the subnational level. The analysis...

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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9) : Improving Health and Reducing Poverty

Jamison, Dean T. - 2009

As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory...

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On the front lines of the fight against poverty

Corral, Paul; Irwin, Alexander; Krishnan, Nandini; … - 2020

"Extreme poverty is in retreat today across much of the world, but Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (FCS) are a stark exception. Not only is extreme poverty rising in economies characterized by conflict and fragility, but poor people in FCS are more likely than the poor elsewhere to...

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