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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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Child Labor Standards in Regional Trade Agreements : Theory and Evidence

Abman, Ryan - 2023

child employment and increases in school enrollment, particularly for older children aged 14-17 years. Child labor bans in … regional trade agreements perversely increase employment of children aged 14-17 years and decrease school enrollment for both … young and older children. These effects appear to decrease inter-household income inequality through increased child …

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Legal innovation and empowerment for development

Cissé, Hassane (contributor) - 2013

The World Bank legal review gathers this input from around the world and compiles it into a useful resource for all development practitioners and scholars. The subtitle of this volume, legal innovation and empowerment for development, highlights how the law can respond to the chal-lenges posed...

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Kinder und Jugendliche als pflegende Angehörige : Einblick in die Situation Betroffener und Möglichkeiten der Unterstützung : zwei Studien des Instituts für Pflegewissenschaft der Universität Wien im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz

Universität Wien / Institut für Pflegewissenschaft - 2015

Als "Young Carers" werden Kinder und Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren bezeichnet, die regelmäßig Pflegetätigkeiten für ein chronisch krankes Familienmitglied übernehmen. Neben Haushaltstätigkeiten und der Obsorge für gesunde Geschwister sind sie in "klassische" Pflegetätigkeiten involviert,...

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Macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction

Mody, Ashoka (ed.); Pattillo, Catherine A. (ed.) - 2006

In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going...

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Institutional change through development assistance : the comparative advantages of political and adaptive approaches

Roll, Michael - 2021

Development assistance often fails to achieve institutional change because of a limited consideration of the political nature of these reforms and the local context. In response, political and adaptive development assistance (PADA) approaches, such as “Thinking and Working Politically” (TWP)...

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Does COVID-19 change the long-term prospects of latecomer industrialisation?

Altenburg, Tilman; Brandi, Clara; Pegels, Anna; Stamm, … - 2021

This study explores to what extent the COVID-19 crisis has been a turning point in the industrialisation process and the overall progress of countries towards sustainable development and what this implies for future inclusive and sustainable industrial development policies. The focus of the...

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Inequality in the developing world

Gradín, Carlos (ed.); Leibbrandt, Murray V. (ed.); … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense...

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Pro-poor Growth: Policy and Evidence.

Menkhoff, Lukas (contributor) - 2006 - 1. Aufl.

The embarrassing living conditions of more than one billion poor people in developing countries in combination with the increasing gap of living standards between the poor and the rich, has provided a strong motivation for development policy to change this situation. From its beginning, policy...

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Risikomanagement rohstoffexportierender Entwicklungsländer

Wagner, Evamaria - 1997

Internationale Rohstoffabkommen sind bisher daran gescheitert, schwankende Erlöse langfristig zu stabilisieren. Da die Ursachen dieser Erlösschwankungen nicht beseitigt werden können, steht das Risikomanagement im Mittelpunkt. Mit Hilfe der Portfoliotheorie werden die Bedingungen des...

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