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This case study examines to what extent Bolivia has been able to achieve pro-poor growth, what the mechanisms of … achieving (or failing to achieve) pro-poor growth have been, and what options are available to ensure higher rates of pro …-poor growth. The analysis focuses on the period from 1989 to 2003, which spans a time of relatively high growth in the 1990s, and …
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NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...
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to excel under risky conditions. -- Aid allocation ; aid agencies ; non-governmental organizations ; poverty …
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This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest...
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This paper presents a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the analysis of environmental policies towards mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the class of static, trade-focussed models along the lines...
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reduces the poverty effect of the external shock. Even the significant short-run macroeconomic expansion that occurs without … wage indexation does not translate into significant poverty alleviation, which is due to the fact that the real value of …
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