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gradually led the international community to use tools to reach the poor. Poverty reduction policy targeting is one of them …(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve the effectiveness of programmes in reducing poverty have …. This paper reviews targeted poverty alleviation policies in developing countries and seeks to identify the key factors that …
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(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve effectiveness of programs in reducing poverty has … progressively led the international community to use tools for reaching the poor. Targeting antipoverty interventions is one of them …. This paper aims at providing a general review of experiences of targeted poverty alleviation policies in developing …
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Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve effectiveness of programs in reducing poverty has progressively led … the international community to use tools for reaching the poor. Targeting antipoverty interventions is one of them. This … paper aims at providing a general review of experiences of targeted poverty alleviation policies in developing countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905157
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This work analyses the targeting performance and the impact evaluation of three projects. The first paper is about the … water subsidies in the Republic of Congo. The study shows that the self-targeting scheme, using an Inverse Block Tariff …-poor. The self-targeting mechanism used in the Public Work program in Liberia works better since the proportion of poor involved …
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geographic or not, can combine to explain persistent poverty in a given area. In this chapter we test the effect of local …
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geographic or not, can combine to explain persistent poverty in a given area. In this chapter we test the effect of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520052
the dynamics of poverty alleviation. For promoting the equality of opportunities and poverty reduction, redistribution … a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro … education, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty …
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dynamics of poverty alleviation. For promoting the equality of opportunities and poverty reduction, redistribution issues … after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro-poor to some …, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction …
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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