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the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521021
the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759618
the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552528
This paper investigates the effects of shocks, predominantly climate shocks, on labor market outcomes in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the differential effects of shocks on migrants and non-migrants. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648528
This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835567
end of 2002, poverty is likely to be high and to have risen in recent years even compared to its high postconflict level …. The first objective of this chapter is to estimate the share of the population in poverty in 2002, predict how it may have … evolved since then, and assess the levels of growth that will be required to reduce poverty measures in the future. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835977
This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836152
poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836273
This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836453
In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country …’s poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the … world. This short dissemination note provides estimates of poverty for countries from the Franc CFA zone and shows how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836765