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The main background and rationale of this research paper is that while donors' scaled-up engagements in Fragility and … Conflict-affected States (FCS) during the last decades were a resounding success in terms of official development resources … devoted to FCS, the value for money compared to the ultimate goal of helping these countries move out of fragility was well …
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The main background and rationale of this research paper is that while donors' scaled-up engagements in Fragility and … Conflict-affected States (FCS) during the last decades were a resounding success in terms of official development resources … devoted to FCS, the value for money compared to the ultimate goal of helping these countries move out of fragility was well …
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The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas are also where the least evidence exists on how to...
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The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...
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A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …’ postulates that: (i) one unit of currency deposited abroad represents a loss in financial development at home (ii) a fraction of …
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