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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa : a hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 27 (2015) 3, pp. 407-424
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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021
-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
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Africa's lockdown dilemma : high poverty and low trust
Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228037
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Spatial heterogeneity of COVID-19 impacts on urban household incomes : Between- and within-city analyses of two African countries
Batana, Yélé Maweki; Nakamura, Shohei; Rajashekar, Anirudh - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 3, pp. 1918-1943
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Revisiting poverty trends and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
Abay, Kibrom A.; Yonzan, Nishant; Kurdi, Sikandra; … - In: Journal of African economies 32 (2023), pp. ii44-ii68
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Poverty reduction through growth, redistribution and social inclusion in times of COVID-19 : Kenyan evidence on the underlying mechanisms
Mwabu, Germano M. - In: Journal of African economies 32 (2023), pp. ii69-ii80
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the new poor in Africa : the straw that broke the camel's back
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - In: Forum for social economics 52 (2023) 2, pp. 143-154
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Dilemmas of poverty and development
Pressend, Michelle (contributor);  … - 2008
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Aid effectiveness : opening the black box
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011
impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …
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