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Are candidates who hand out clientelistic goods at election time less likely to provide services once they take office? This paper examines the poor's expectations of future service provision by candidates who hand out money and other goods versus those who do not. We hypothesize that the poor's...
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decentralization and its effects on poverty reduction from the optimist and pessimist views. The paper affirmed that fiscal … decentralization has the potential for poverty reduction when it is characterized by greater financial autonomy of the local units with …The unfinished agenda in the theory and practice of fiscal decentralization is how fiscal decentralization affects the …
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This paper provides a detailed survey of the literature on the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on poverty … done on the impact of FDI on poverty reduction, the majority of these studies have focused on the indirect impact of FDI on … poverty reduction. The bulk of the literature reviewed supports the positive effects of foreign direct investment on poverty …
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their poverty goals) and their process of decentralization, the overview of expenditures, the access of the poor to these … of studies on poverty in Mexico-Mexico's social cabinet requested that the Bank analyze service delivery of a specific … list of programs that are essential to the government's development strategy in the context of decentralization. The …
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Intro -- Foreword by ADA -- Preface by Microenergy Systems Research Group -- Preface by Daniel M. Kammen -- Preface by the Organizing Team -- Conference Summary -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I New Experiences, Simulations and Visions from the Field of AC and DC Minigrids -- 1 Swarm...
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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