pre-existing trends in empowerment. It is also robust to alternative treatment definitions and confirmed by triple …

of reducing poverty and hunger. Thus, the overall objective of this study is to support the applied empowerment research … requirements and to scientific findings from empowerment research, farmer organizations (FO) could become one of the innovative key … actors, increasing the competitiveness of their members SMEs' and reducing poverty, its impacts and its costs. The aim of …

countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food … price surge and various policy options on the performance of the main macroeconomic indicators as well as on poverty …

War II but continues to resonate in countries where poverty is widespread and the Church has grown. This paper explores 1 …), Egypt (Mahfouz), and Brazil (Lispector). …

literature by examining the phasing out of energy subsidies in Egypt under alternative economic scenarios. In particular, we … consider Egypt's short- and long-term economic adjustment under different assumptions on labor market flexibility, spending …

devastating consequences on the household economic status that would push them into extreme poverty. Using nationally … representative surveys from three Arab countries, namely, Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine, this paper examines the incidence, intensity … and distribution of catastrophic health payments, and assesses the poverty impact of out-of-pocket health payments (OOP …

facility. For children whose mothers have alow level of education or whose parents are at risk of poverty, this increase was …-educated or single mothers as well as of children at risk of poverty. In some groups, the increased use of these institutions was …

low level of education or whose parents are at risk of poverty, this increase was less pronounced. In East Germany … at risk of poverty. In some groups, the increased use of these institutions was accompanied by a decline in informal …