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This case study traces the evolution of poverty in Mongolia, a country currently developing a pluralist approach to … poverty alleviation. Mongolia is unique because it transformed from nomadic pastoralism to Soviet socialism without a natural … liberalism and multiparty democracy. Collapse of the socialist safety net increased poverty for women and rural areas. Although …
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Indonesia has lowered the total poverty rate by less than 10%. Earlier poverty measurements in Indonesia suggest that … transient poverty is more prevalent. We argue that, when employing the Equally Distributed Equivalent (EDE) approach and … disaggregated poverty lines, chronic poverty is more prevalent than transient poverty. We estimated chronic and transient poverty in …
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assimilation into other KLs, including SP. The two increasingly overlap in their analysis of the causes of relative poverty and …
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Efficiency and equity are cornerstone concepts in rational service delivery in the public sector. This paper benchmarks efficiency and equity in public spending on health, education and social protection in a broad group of Asian Development Bank (ADB) member economies with varying levels of...
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Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
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ceteris paribus impact of the reforms on inequality and poverty as well as estimate how the burden of austerity has been …
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The government is rightly concerned with employment generation to make growth inclusive. The use of the open unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is...
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