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This paper studies how self-help groups-village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production and social cohesion among the poor-can promote economic and social capital. The paper uses survey data and a wide array of social capital measures to assess the impact of a...
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Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …
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poverty (an additional 28.7percent); most of the poor and vulnerable lived in the governorates of Upper Egypt. Clearly the …In 2015, a large share of Egypt's population was either poor (27.8 percent) or not poor but vulnerable to falling into … country faces a challenge, but it also has the knowledge to craft solutions. Egypt's recent reforms have started to address …
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The previous decade in Egypt was marked by major internal and external shocks that have surely had severe implications … twofold. The first is to provide a detailed description of the methodology that has been applied in Egypt in estimating … poverty, including the decisions taken to build the consumption-based welfare aggregate. The second objective of this note is …
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Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. However, the evidence on the impact of such...
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Women's economic empowerment is not a new issue; nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and development … gender gaps, the paper uses the approach to identify those constraints to women's economic empowerment that align with …
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This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women …
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This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...
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Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth. Can citizens in poor communities be empowered to demand better-quality public investments? This paper looks at whether providing social accountability training and information on...
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economic progress. Yet women's economic engagement and empowerment are subdued, as they cannot make sufficient choices for … lie ahead for women's economic empowerment. This book is an important contribution to the knowledge on interventions …. There is an urgent need to deepen researched understanding of the multidimensional pathways of women's economic empowerment …
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