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Challenges to Inclusive Growth : A Poverty and Equity Assessment of Djibouti
World Bank Group - 2019
The objective of this report is to present a snapshot of the welfare landscape in Djibouti that will help stakeholders understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of...
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Riding the wave : an East Asian miracle for the 21st century
Weltbank - 2017
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Decentralization and Subnational Service Delivery in Iraq : Status and Way Forward
World Bank - 2016
decentralization is yet to be followed through with efficient implementation. The Government of Iraq and the World Bank will like to … assess the current status of decentralization and its implications for improving service delivery at the Governorate level …. The objective of the assessment is to take stock of the current state of decentralization in Iraq with a view to …
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Peru : Building a More Efficient and Equitable Fiscal Decentralization System
World Bank Group - 2017
. This report analyzes recent trends of the fiscal decentralization process in Peru and presents a set of reform options … designed to harvest the envisaged efficiency and equity gains in service delivery that the fiscal decentralization was expected …
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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar
World Bank Group - 2019
Myanmar's decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly …
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Municipal Pooled Financing of Infrastructure in the United States : Experience and Lessons
Liu, Lili - 2017
Despite a world awash with liquidity, large infrastructure supply gaps exist across developing and emerging markets. Infrastructure has been largely decentralized to subnational governments in many countries, and many policymakers are keenly interested in developing subnational bond markets to...
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Participation, Decentralization and Human Rights : A Review of Approaches for Strengthening Voice and Accountability in Local Governance
Friis-Hansen, Esbern - 2009
employed to improve local governance in developing countries: 1) democratic decentralization or devolution; 2) community …
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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy
Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019
gains and the inequality costs of trade liberalization are quantified and the trade-offs between them are assessed using an … Atkinson social welfare index. The analysis finds average income gains from import tariff liberalization in 45 countries and …
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Uncertainty in ex-ante poverty and income distribution : insights from output growth and natural resource country typologies
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022359
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How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?
Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Negre, Mario; … - 2019
The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in international development and agreed upon in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 10. Using data from 164 countries comprising 97 percent of the world's...
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