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Ugandan Coffee Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2011
Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, accounting for … approximately 2.5 percent of global coffee production. In 2008-2009, coffee exports accounted for almost a quarter of Uganda … manage potential risks going forward. The government of Uganda and the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) has already …
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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households : experimental evidence from Uganda
Wieser, Christina; Bruhn, Miriam; Kinzinger, Johannes; … - 2019
This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment …
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Haiti Coffee Supply Chain Risk Assessment
World Bank - 2010
Coffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for … more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at … the Haitian coffee sub-sector. Instead, it describes the risks affecting the existing supply chain in terms of their …
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Assessing deprivation with an ordinal variable : theory and application to sanitation deprivation in Bangladesh
Seth, Suman; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2020
The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive...
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Rural roads, poverty, and resilience : evidence from Ethiopia
Nakamura, Shohei; Bundervoet, Tom; Nuru, Mohammed - 2019
This study analyzes the impacts of the recent rural road development in Ethiopia on welfare and economic outcomes. The identification of the impacts relies on a difference-in-differences matching approach, taking advantage of the nationally representative household survey and the original road...
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Poverty and Social Impact Assessment of Systematic Registration on Rural Romania
World Bank Group - 2016
The objective of this Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is to assess the impact of systematic registration on vulnerable individuals, in general, and Roma, in particular. Specifically, this PSIA focuses on the systematic registration approach piloted under the Complementing EU Support...
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Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh : Sustaining Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2016
The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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Resilience or Resignation : Facing Droughts and Floods in Rural, Poor Bolivia
World Bank Group - 2017
Bolivia is a country with a vast geographical diversity, from a high plateau (altiplano) that reaches 3,000 meters above sea level to valleys at mid-altitude and tropical plains. During the last decade, the magnitude of Bolivia's weather patterns has undergone significant changes; extreme...
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Bangladesh Poverty Assessment : Facing Old and New Frontiers in Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2019
Bangladesh has an inspiring story of reducing poverty and advancing development. Since 2000, the country has reduced poverty by half. In the last decade and a half, it lifted more than 25 million out of poverty. The country's economy remained robust and resilient even in the face of many...
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Bangladesh Poverty Assessment : Facing Old and New Frontiers in Poverty Reduction, Volume 2 Background Papers
World Bank Group - 2019
Bangladesh has an inspiring story of reducing poverty and advancing development. Since 2000, the country has reduced poverty by half. In the last decade and a half, it lifted more than 25 million out of poverty. The country's economy remained robust and resilient even in the face of many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646658