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Over the preceding decade, the World Bank committed about US$7.5bn in loans for urban transport projects in its client countries, involving total project costs of nearly US$13bn. Projects are designed by the client city/national governments and the World Bank in an interactive, give-and-take...
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equilibrium model of Tanzania to evaluate different biofuels production options and estimate their impacts on growth and poverty …. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of biofuels production in countries like Tanzania will …
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This study assesses the future impacts of biofuel production from the world’s major biofuel producers (the US, Brazil and the EU) over the next decade on global markets and the resulting spatial implications on income distribution and agricultural production in China. Rising global commodity...
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Rigorous evidence regarding the impact of early care and education on children's development comes primarily from high-income nations. A few studies from Latin America and the Caribbean have identified benefits of conditional cash transfer and home visiting programs on children's development....
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Theory predicts that land ownership empowers women to avoid HIV acquisition by reducing their reliance on risky survival sex and enhancing their ability to negotiate safer sex. However, this prediction has not been tested empirically. Using a sample of 5511 women working in the agricultural...
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This study examines the associations of neighborhood ethnic density and poverty with social cohesion and self … density among Latinos and negatively related to ethnic density among Asian Americans. Although higher neighborhood poverty is … social cohesion and covariates. Furthermore, social cohesion fully mediates the association between neighborhood poverty and …
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labels applied to the poor have shifted: from being a symptom of racial weakness, to the culture of poverty, and now to …
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Based on meso data, study analyses the causes of poverty and food insecurity. It seeks to identify who is food insecure … financial services and promoting small scale industries as well as micro enterprises and strengthening anti-poverty programmes … within the state. The two district sampled, where more or less half population are under poverty. Livelihood options are …
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The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …
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This paper has explored the relationship between infrastructure and growth and poverty in the context of the Bangladesh … extremely significant role in promoting growth and alleviating poverty in Bangladesh. The construction of the district … suggest that the district-wise variation in head-count poverty is well explained by the variation in the IDI and the district …
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