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Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua; Sangraula, Prem - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 2, pp. 163-184

The article presents the first major update of the international $1 a day poverty line, proposed in World Development Report 1990: Poverty for measuring absolute poverty by the standards of the world's poorest countries. In a new and more representative data set of national poverty lines, a...

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How Research Can Assist Policy : The Case of Economic Reforms in Uganda

Mackinnon, John; Reinikka, Ritva - In: World Bank Research Observer 17 (2002) 2, pp. 267-292

Research has had a powerful impact on policy in Uganda, affecting the climate of opinion, improving the quality of the policy debate, and helping focus public policy and intervention on poverty reduction. Uganda's successful use of knowledge and research to help set public policy priorities...

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Effect of human capital development and institutional quality on inclusive growth in African countries

Ofori, Pamela Efua; Kuuwill, Ametus; Quaye, Bright - In: Cogent economics & finance 12 (2024) 1, pp. 1-19

The study examines the impact of human capital and governance on inclusive growth in Africa. It further explores how … governance dynamics influence the relationship between human capital and inclusive growth. Drawing on macro data spanning 43 … technique, the following findings emerge. First, human capital promotes inclusive growth in Africa, while governance has a …

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Intrahousehold responses to imbalanced human capital subsidies : evidence from the Philippine conditional cash transfer program

Raitzer, David A.; Batmunkh, Odbayar; Yarcia, Damaris - 2021

Extensive global evidence suggests that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) encourage long-term investment in human capital by poor households. However, CCTs also have the potential to distort incentives for investment among children. If only some children in the household are monitored/subsidized...

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Strategy and human resources management in non-profit organizations : its interaction with open innovation

Oliveira, Márcio; Sousa, Marlene; Silva, Rui; Santos, … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 7 (2021) 1/75, pp. 1-21

problems to the way in which governance is exercised and served as a motivation for carrying out a study that aimed to … understand the influence of strategy and human resources on the governance of these organizations. A review of the literature on … governance of these institutions. The results obtained show the existence of a positive relationship between the variables under …

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The role of social protection in building, protecting, and deploying human capital in the East Asia and Pacific region

Moroz, Harry Edmund - 2019

The objective of this note is to highlight how social protection can help lay the human capital foundations needed for poverty reduction and economic growth in the East Asia and Pacific region while also building, protecting, and deploying the human capital needed to keep up with and take...

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Adaptive Social Protection, Human Capital, and Climate Change : Identifying Policy Priorities for Indonesia

Williams, Asha - 2024

Climate change, and its associated impacts, threatens to reverse decades of global progress in improving people's health, human capital accumulation, and poverty reduction. At the same time, individuals and households with more human capital and are better positioned to withstand climate change...

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Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction : Additional Evidence

de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - In: World Bank Research Observer 25 (2010) 1, pp. 1-20

Agricultural growth has long been recognized as an important instrument for poverty reduction. Yet, measurements of this relationship are still scarce and not always reliable. The authors present additional evidence at both the sectoral and household levels based on recent data. Results show...

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"Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland" aus raumwissenschaftlicher Sicht

Rosenfeld, Martin T. W. - In: "Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland" aus …, (pp. 3-12). 2021

Governance-Aspekte sowie die Frage nach der Übereinstimmung zwischen dem aktuellen räumlichen Zuschnitt der Metropolregion und …

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"Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland" aus raumwissenschaftlicher Sicht

Rosenfeld, Martin T. W. (ed.); Stefansky, Andreas (ed.) - ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der … - 2021

Fokus stehen insbesondere institutionelle und Governance-Aspekte sowie die Frage nach der Übereinstimmung zwischen dem … on institutional and governance aspects as well as the question of the correspondence between the current spatial layout …

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