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Reaching Health and Education Targets in Argentina: A Provincial Level Analysis

Miller, Margaret; Jayasuriya, Ruwan; White, elisabeth; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This chapter analyzes the relevance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Argentina–a middle income country in … order to better understand how the MDGs, which sometimes are seen as appealing only to the poorest nations, are viewed by … the MDGs, when a country is undergoing a profound crisis. In Argentina, the provinces have primary responsibility for …

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Measuring and Explaining Country Efficiency in Improving Health and Education Indicators

Jayasuriya, Ruwan; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Governments aiming to improve the education and health status of their populations can increase the level of public spending allocated to these sectors, or improve the efficiency of public spending. Since increasing spending is often difficult due to the limited tax base of most developing...

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Projecting Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals

White, Howard; Blondal, Nina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard by which performance will ultimately be judged. Given their importance, considerable attention has been paid as to whether these goals will be met or not. The overwhelming...

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Development Targets and Costs

Christiaensen, Luc; Scott, Christopher; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper presents some analytical techniques to help policymakers gauge the technical and fiscal feasibility of development targets. While each of the techniques discussed below has deficiencies, taken together they have proven very useful in providing a sense of realism to target setting. The...

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Development Targets and Efficiency in Improving Education and Health Outcomes in Mexico’s Southern States

Jayasuriya, Ruwan; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

the MDGs. The objective of this paper is to document this assertion and discuss some of the constraints toward reaching … the MDGs, as well as some initiatives recently taken to make faster progress. In the first section of the paper, we … provide a brief diagnostic regarding how much progress has already been achieved toward reaching the MDGs in Mexico as a whole …

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Measuring progress towards global poverty goals: Challenges and lessons from southern Africa

Levine, Sebastian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper draws on the work in Lesotho and Namibia of tracking progress towards cutting poverty in half by 2015, which is the key poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals. The paper serves at least two purposes. Firstly, it outlines the steps and methodological considerations involved...

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Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth in Developing Asia

Niimi, Yoko - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2009

This paper reviews the recent progress toward gender equality in developing Asia by examining a number of indicators proposed under the Millennium Development Goal 3 plus approach, focusing on gender inequalities in education and health outcomes (capability) and in labor market and political...

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THE ROLE OF EUROPEAN UNION IN FINANCING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT USING BUDGET SUPPORT

Renate, Lect. Ph.D Daea Alexandra; Giorgiana, Lect. … - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2009) 13S, pp. 15-18

Goals (MDGs). The current EU aid architecture builds upon a variety of approaches: from direct project or sector support to …

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MAINSTREAMING GENDER IN PURSUIT OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN WATER RESOURCE GOVERNANCE IN BUHERA, ZIMBABWE

EPHRAIM, CHIFAMBA - In: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 22 (2013) 3, pp. 3-16

treat water as a human right so as to realize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Buhera. A gender equity approach …

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High Food and Oil Prices and Their Impact on the Achievement of MDG 1 in Asia and the Pacific

Freire, Clovis; Isgut, Alberto - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …

This paper estimates the impact of the high food prices of 2010 on income poverty and the achievement of MDG 1 in Asia and the Pacific. It also estimates the impacts of high price during 2011 under various scenarios for the prices of food and oil. We find that although the high food prices of...

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