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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …- and long-run impact on poverty through various channels. It surveys spending trends and analyzes the effect of growing …
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This paper estimates the potential effects of achieving the agricultural goals set out in Iraq’s National Development Plan (NDP) 2013–2017 using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The findings suggest that raising agricultural productivity in accordance with the NDP...
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an opportunity to enhance growth and poverty reduction. Overall, the proposed biofuel investments increase Mozambique …'s annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and reduce the incidence of poverty by about six percentage points over the …
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literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for …
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The Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) conducted this Rural Household Panel Survey (RHPS) during March-April 2012 in three provinces of Pakistan (Punjab, Sindh, and KPK). The survey aims to provide the quantitative basis to identify and address the urgent economic policy priorities related...
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poverty reduction but also in economic growth. …
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agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in …
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Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises … concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a … growth—not the level—is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania. Most importantly, agricultural …
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poverty, because poultry is an important income source for poor farmers and a major food item in consumers' baskets. Avian flu …
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