Search Results - subject:"basic needs"

Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi's poverty puzzle

Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; Mussa, Richard - 2014

alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially …

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Consumption bundle aggregation in poverty measurement: Implications for poverty and its dynamics in Uganda

Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Ssekabira, Haruna; Aduayom, Dede H. - 2014

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for the widely divergent diets throughout the...

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Consumption bundle aggregation in poverty measurement: Implications for poverty and its dynamics in Uganda

Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Ssekabira, Haruna; Aduayom, Dede H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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Participatory Rural Appraisal of Basic Needs Deprivation among Rural Dwellers of Borno State, Nigeria

Yusuf, R. O. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 04 (2014) 03

Inadequacy of environmental and infrastructural resources to satisfy basic needs results in deprivation among rural … objectives are to determine the seasonality of basic needs deprivation, analyse the triggers of need deprivation, and, assess the … conclusion that basic needs satisfaction among the studied rural dwellers in Borno state is below societal expectations …

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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs

Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...

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Poverty and Voting Trend in Tanzania From 1990 to the 2010 General Elections

Mpehongwa, Gasper - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 4 (2014) 4, pp. 562-571

and historical trends to collect and analyze relevant data. Findings show that basic needs poverty has declined from 47 … about 35% support but enjoys considerable followings in regions with high incidences of basic needs poverty, although even … growth failed to reduce basic needs poverty in rural areas. Experts predict a sustained economic growth in the near future …

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Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi.s poverty puzzle

Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; Mussa, Richard - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in nat

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Health Financing in Vanuatu : Challenges and Options

Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...

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Measuring and analyzing the non-monetary approach of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs in Togo

NOGLO, Yawo Agbényégan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

This paper aims at measuring and analyzing the non-monetary aspect of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs …

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Confronting Poverty with Jobs and Job Training : A Northeast Iowa Case Study

Fullwiler, Scott; Meyeraan, Susan - 2014

This paper discusses a local, privately-run and federally-funded program to all individuals able to demonstrate their income is at, or below the poverty line. This free Certified Nursing Assistant training program enables successful participants to obtain appropriate employment in local...

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