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Ghana; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This is the third Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS). Both the budget and the GPRS propose to tackle issues including reduction in the domestic debt, reduction of inflation to single digits, increasing revenue mobilization, curtailing...
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Togo; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
From 2001, Togo has been engaged in the process of preparing its poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP). As a result of the social and political crisis, Togo’s economy has been affected severely. To overcome this crisis, the government has been engaged in key reforms intended to restore...
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Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Mauritania’s poverty reduction strategy paper is based on a broadly participatory process and serves as the policy framework for the country’s economic and social policies. The focus is to accelerate economic growth and stabilize the macroeconomic framework, which benefits the...
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Bangladesh; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This paper focuses on the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction for Bangladesh. The paper discusses that accelerating growth and bringing a pro-poor orientation in the growth process would be achieved through emphasizing four priority areas: accelerated growth in rural areas and...
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Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty : an adequate strategy?
Hufkens, Tine; Figari, Francesco; Vandelannoote, Dieter; … - 2019
Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare...
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Modes of child care
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - 2016
We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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The marketisation of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Australia : a structured response
Newberry, Susan; Brennan, Deborah - In: Financial accountability & management : in governments, … 29 (2013) 3, pp. 227-245
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Child care in the United States : markets, policy, and evidence
Herbst, Chris M. - 2022
Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and quality is highly uneven across providers and sectors, raising questions about the impact of child...
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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
Herbst, Chris; Tekin, Erdal - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …
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