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The eficacy of fiscal policy in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Nigeria
Asaju, Kayode; Adagba, Sunday Onah; Kajang, Thomas John - In: Research in world economy 5 (2014) 1, pp. 65-74
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Information and communication technology and poverty alleviation in Nigeria
Mateko, Freeman Munisi - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation and … 16 (2024) 3, pp. 439-450
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The roles of the private and public sectors in poverty reduction
Karnani, Aneel Gobindram - In: Journal of marketing management : MM 33 (2017) 17/18, pp. 1585-1592
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Buying votes versus supplying public services : political incentives to under-invest in pro-poor policies
Khemani, Stuti - In: Journal of development economics 117 (2015), pp. 84-93
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Decentralized Service Delivery for the Poor
World Bank - 2012
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 … coverage, local social infrastructure, and local rural development-all aim directly or indirectly to reduce poverty. Both …
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Does fiscal decentralization enhance citizens' access to public services and reduce poverty? : evidence from a conflict setting
Sanogo, Tiangboho - 2017
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Literacy and information
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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Between a rock and a hard place: poverty and COVID-19 in developing countries
Bargain, Olivier; Aminjonov, Ulugbek - 2020
population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade …-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions … announcements, we measure the differential time variation in work mobility between high and low-poverty regions. We find that the …
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Manila Water : Privatizing Regulated Services in a Developing Country (A Strategy Case Study)
Wolf, Christian O. H. - 2008
In 1997 the government of the Philippines privatised the water services in the Manila Metropolitan Area (covering approximately 11 million people) by granting two large concession areas to consortia of international water companies and local partners. This case study tracks the successful...
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