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Access to the financial sector has numerous benefits. Savers and investors are matched, transactions costs are lowered and liquidity is created. But less than half of the households in developing countries have access to financial services, compared to over 70 per cent in the developed world. By...

According to current estimates, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the 1.1 billion people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 will only be achieved by 2040, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Why will it take this long? Because tariffs are unaffordable and...

Cash transfer programmes are emerging as indispensable component of poverty reduction strategies. The objectives of alleviating short-term poverty and long-term human capital building are what make cash transfers, particularly conditional ones, attractive. In Latin America, where cash transfers...

Le commerce mondial du khat est controversé. Les Etats-Unis et la plupart des pays européens l?ont interdit, l?assimilant à une substance psychotrope. Et, pourtant, sa culture contribue de manière significative aux revenus des agriculteurs d?Afrique orientale.1 Bien que les pouvoirs publics...

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