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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008

Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...

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Poverty-oriented social policy in South and East African countries ; [papers contributed to DSE regional seminar held at Club Makokola, Mangochi, Malawi, 23rd - 27th Nov. 1998]

Gsänger, Hans G. (contributor); Heufers, Rainer (contributor) - 1999

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Can social security programmes do more with less? : General issues and the challenges for Southern Africa

Haddad, Lawrence James - In: Development Southern Africa : quarterly journal 14 (1997) 2, pp. 125-153

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Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa : modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme...

Diallo, Mariam; Wouterse, Fleur - In: Development policy review 41 (2023) 3, pp. 1-22

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Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : Market Structure, Farm Constraints and Grass-root Institutions

Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas - 2017

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops...

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The performance of a consumption augmented asset index in ranking households and identifying the poor

Ngo, Diana; Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2018

rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …

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Agricultural supply chains, growth and poverty in sub-saharan Africa : market structure, farm constraints and grass-root institutions

Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; Porto, Guido G.; Mulangu, Francis - 2017

Imports -- 2.3.1 Production and Domestic Demand -- 2.4 The Solution -- References -- Chapter 3: The Case of Tanzania -- 3 ….1 The Household Survey -- 3.2 Food and Cash Crops in Tanzania -- 3.3 Simulation Results -- 3.4 Welfare Simulations … -- References -- Chapter 4: The Case of Malawi -- 4.1 The Household Survey Data -- 4.2 Food and Cash Crops in Malawi -- 4 …

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Agricultural supply chains, growth and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : market structure, farm constraints and grass-root Institutions

Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; Porto, Guido G.; Mulangu, Francis - 2017

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Dynamics and time frame of post war recovery required for compensating civil war economic losses

Nam, Chang-woon; Schumacher, Jan - In: CESifo forum : a bi-monthly journal on European … 15 (2014) 3, pp. 79-87

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Dynamics and Time Scope of Post War Recovery Required for Compensating Civil War Economic Losses

Nam, Chang Woon - 2013

Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional economic, social and political system, leading...

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