Migration and Poverty

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• This volume uses recent research from the World Bank to document and analyze the bidirectional relationship between poverty and migration in developin... Lees meer

Pathways to Prosperity in Rural Malawi

Andrew Dabalen, Alejandro de la Fuente, Aparajita Goyal

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• By most accounts, rural Malawi has lacked dynamism in the past decade. Growth has been mostly volatile, in large part due to unstable macroeconomic fu... Lees meer

Uneven Odds, Unequal Outcomes

Nandini Krishnan, Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Ambar Narayan

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• Middle East and North Africa (MNA) is a region in turmoil. The pervasive sense of discontent and disenchantment among the people in the region appears... Lees meer

Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?

Andrew Dabalen, Ambar Narayan, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi

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• "We have long known that a person's chance of success in life is deeply influenced by early access to education, health services, safe water, and nutr... Lees meer

Mobile Phone Panel Surveys in Developing Countries

Andrew Dabalen, Alvin Etang, Johannes Hoogeveen

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• Household survey data are very useful for monitoring living conditions of citizens of any country. In developing countries, a lot of this data are col... Lees meer

Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers

World Bank, Gabriela Inchauste

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• The World Bank has partnered with the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University to implement their diagnostic tool--the Commitment to Equity... Lees meer

Sewing Success?

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• The end of the MFA was followed by rising apparel exports, falling prices, and a reallocation of production and employment between countries. There we... Lees meer

Cuando No Basta El Crecimiento

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• La Republica Dominicana se destaca por ser una economia en rapido crecimiento que no le ha sido posible generar una reduccion proporcional en la pobre... Lees meer

The Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change

Emmanuel Skoufias

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• Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge povert... Lees meer

Understanding Changes in Poverty

Joao Pedro Azevedo, B Essama-Nssah, Sergio Olivieri

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• "The 2015 Millennium Development Goal to cut in half the share of the world's population living in extreme poverty was met with time to spare. By 2013... Lees meer

When Growth Is Not Enough

World Bank

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• The Dominican Republic stands out as a fast growing economy that has not been able to generate a commensurate reduction in poverty. Three reasons have... Lees meer

Beyond Ending Poverty

Shahidur R Khandker, M A Baqui Khalily, Hussain a Samad

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• The recent past has witnessed phenomenal growth in MFIs around the world. Today as many as 200 million people are beneficiaries of microfinance. Given... Lees meer