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translated into modest poverty reduction. Not only poverty fell at slower pace than expected but the gains in income and … poverty rates than rural provinces, particularly those in the central and northern parts of the country. Three factors … could have had a much larger impact on poverty reduction in Mozambique if its effects had not been offset by the observed …
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The Russian Federation offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring...
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The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …
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Guinea-Bissau is fighting a battle against poverty, low growth, and political fragility. Each of these areas presents … both a formidable challenge as well as an opportunity for serious, long-lasting and much-needed change. Poverty is …
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poverty that are necessarily cross disciplinary and what a great university should be doing. He talks about the investments … that developing countries can make in the health and education of their people which will help reduce extreme poverty in …
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too weak and volatile to contribute to poverty reduction on a sustained basis. This systematic country diagnostic (SCD …
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Sierra Leone and offer a set of priority areas of intervention to further the twin goals of reducing extreme poverty and … the potential to unlock growth, reduce poverty, and improve the lives of the Sierra Leonean population …
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The overall objective of the Maputo Urban Poverty and Inclusive Growth Study is to inform the municipal governments of … Maputo and Matola in the Greater Maputo Area (GMA) on how to better target and finance urban poverty reduction programs by … building critical knowledge on urban poverty and land-based municipal revenue enhancement. The study carried out an in …
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Liberia's status as a fragile state is deeply rooted in the political and economic exclusion practiced by the country's founders. Although they constituted just 5 percent of the population, freed American slaves and their descendants dominated the country's intellectual and ruling class from...
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