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MDG Achievements, Determinants and Resource Needs : What Has Been Learnt?
Lay, Jann - 2017
This paper reviews the effectiveness and efficiency of key policy instruments for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Based on a simple cross-country regression analysis, the paper argues that average Millennium Development Goal progress is likely tobe too slow to meet...
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Eradicating Poverty in Fragile States : Prospects of Reaching The"High-Hanging"Fruit by 2030
Burt, Alison - 2017
As the world approaches the target year of the Millennium Development Goals and passes into the new, post-2015 era, the development community has made a call for a new international development goal of eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. How feasible is that? For most of the developing...
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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets
Allwine, Melanie - 2017
Adopted on September 8, 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals : Mauritania Should Care
Magnoli Bocchi, Alessandro - 2016
Mauritania is a resource-rich developing country. As many other African nations, it will not reach most of the Millennium Development Goals, unless the authorities commit to accelerating progress. To succeed by 2015, the government needs to: mobilize additional financial resources, introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747239
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How Subjective Beliefs About HIV Infection Affect Life-Cycle Fertility : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Shapira, Gil - 2017
This paper studies the effect of subjective beliefs about HIV infection on fertility decisions in a context of high HIV prevalence and simulates the impact of different policy interventions, such as HIV testing programs and prevention of mother-to-child transmission, on fertility and child...
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Women Left Behind? Poverty and Headship in Africa
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2017
This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … product has dampened rising female headship. However, other subtle transformations occurring across Africa?changes in marriage …
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How Significant is Africa's Demographic Dividend for its Future Growth and Poverty Reduction?
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of … catch up to other developing countries. If the skill share of Africa's labor supply doubles because of improvements in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972402
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The Devil is in the Details : Growth, Polarization, and Poverty Reduction in Africa in the Past Two Decades
Clementi, F. - 2018
-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912333
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CPI Bias and its Implications for Poverty Reduction in Africa
Dabalen, Andrew - 2017
International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes to adjust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967120
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Protection in Good and Bad Times? The Turkish Green Card Health Program
Aran, Meltem A. - 2017
This paper evaluates the equity and financial protection implications of the expansion of the Green Card (Yesil Kart) non-contributory health insurance program in Turkey during the growth years from 2003 to 2008. It also considers the program's protective impact during the economic crisis in...
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