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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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Getting the (gender-disaggregated) lay of the land : impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights

Kilic, Talip; Moylan, Heather; Koolwal, Gayatri - 2020

Foundational to the monitoring of international goals on land ownership and rights are the household survey respondents … exclusive reported and economic ownership of agricultural land among men, and (ii) lower rates of joint reported and economic … associated with the scenarios where women attribute at least some land ownership to themselves …

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Reaping Richer Returns : Public Spending Priorities for African Agriculture Productivity Growth

Goyal, Aparajita - 2017 - Online-Ausg.

Enhancing the productivity of agriculture is vital for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic future and is one of the most important tools to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity in the region. How governments elect to spend public resources has significant development impact in this regard....

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Reaping Richer Returns, Preliminary Overview : Public Spending Priorities for African Agriculture Productivity Growth

Goyal, Aparajita - 2016

This study is part of the African Regional Studies Program, an initiative of the Africa Region Vice-Presidency at the World Bank. These studies aim to combine high levels of analytical rigor and policy relevance, and to apply them to various topics important for the social and economic...

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Stunting Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2017

Reducing all forms of malnutrition, including stunting, is central to the World Bank Group's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, as well as building resilience and preventing instability. Maternal and child under nutrition is estimated to be responsible for...

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Safety nets in Africa : effective mechanisms to reach the poor and most vulnerable

Del Ninno, Carlo (contributor); … - 2015 - Online-Ausg.

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On the Central Role of Small Farms in African Rural Development Strategies

Larson, Donald F. - 2016

Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural poor, by building on the limited resources farming households already possess. It is also the best and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using...

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Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brunori, Paolo - 2016

In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. This paper evaluates inequality of opportunity and the different sources of unequal...

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Women Left Behind? : Poverty and Headship in Africa

Milazzo, Annamaria - 2015

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Do cash transfers foster resilience? : evidence from rural Niger

Premand, Patrick; Stoeffler, Quentin - 2020

Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future climatic shocks. Cash transfer programs have had widely documented positive welfare impacts. They often also aim to offer protection against shocks, but their role in fostering...

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