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Can dreams come true? Eliminating extreme poverty in Africa by 2030

Ncube, Mthuli; Brixiova, Zuzana; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2015

The year 2015 is the "finish line" for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). What should the post-2015 goals look like for Africa? The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank has set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in...

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Land Issues in Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Development Agenda: Philippines

Llanto, Gilberto M.; Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2003

The paper discusses critical land issues in the Philippines and assesses the integration of those issues in the national development agenda and poverty reduction strategies. It covers issues related to agriculture, forest and urban lands, land administration and management and government...

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Health insurance for the poor in India

Ahuja, Rajeev - 2004

Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI can take. While analysing the proposed scheme, we examine alternate forms … paper we also explore how insurance sector reforms alter health insurance prospects facing the poor in India, and what …. We conclude that in diverse settings of India all forms of CBHI have a role to play and therefore need to be encouraged …

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Health Insurance for the poor in India: An analytical study

Ahuja, Rajeev - 2005

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ICTs and rural development in India

Singh, Nirvikar - 2006

communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …

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ICTs and rural development in India

Singh, Nirvikar - 2006

communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …

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Do Barangays Really Matter in Local Services Delivery? Some Issues and Policy Options

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Layug, Allan S.; Pantig, Ida Marie T. - 2010

This paper, which is borne out of the need to address scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing, analyzes and evaluates key issues on financing of devolved functions at the barangay level, with particular focus on fund utilization and program allocation, and proposes some policy...

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From local to global and informal to formal: Entering mainstream markets

Nanavaty, Reema - 2005

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy workers’...

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Dams

Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2005

large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

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The role of local government in the process of entrepreneurship development

Skica, Tomasz; Bem, Agnieszka; Żygadło, Karolina - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 4, pp. 1-24

This article presents the role of local governments in supporting entrepreneurship development. The content of the article presents the factors which foster activities undertaken by local authorities to promote entrepreneurship and also shows different considerations of when the supporting...

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