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diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …
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less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per capita growth performance in recent years. Raising the country …. Zimbabwe made significant progress in infrastructure in its early period as an independent state, building a national … political turmoil in the late 1990s. Zimbabwe now faces a number of important infrastructure challenges, the most pressing of …
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effectively. The study analyzes an experimental intervention in Zimbabwe intended to reduce abuse of power by village heads …
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New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses …
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Cameroon is engaged in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty … reduction in the design and implementation of growth and adjustment strategies. The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty … process and quantifying poverty reduction strategies. Drawing on that framework, this paper provides a detailed financial …
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In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania … introduced an anti-poverty program, namely Ndihma Ekonomike; in 1995 it was extended to all poor households. This paper estimates … subjective measures of household poverty. The analysis uses the nationally representative Albanian Living Standards Measurement …
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The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since …
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Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …
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This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and...
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critically affect the link between poverty and malnutrition and would affect the implications for policies designed to improve …
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