improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings …

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it …

The HIPC initiative for debt relief in the poorest countries has been extended to cover more countries. Zambia is one …

illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …

the model simulates the effects of additional aid in Zambia it can be used as a blueprint for other African countries. …

UNDP&UNCDF financed rural development project in Zambia's Eastern Province running from 1997-2002. The secondary datasets …

of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 shows that households in rural Zambia are able to … burden beyond directly afflicted households. Chapter 3 demonstrates for North-Western Tanzania that the age at parental … resulting poverty and inequality implications. The results show that only rich households are able to overcome the entry …

poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic … government, both sides agree on the facts of rural poverty. However in both cases rural poverty is described using measures which … locations in Tanzania. The result of these findings is a compilation which is fascinating in itself and important for the …

homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees …