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A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity : Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank Group

In 2013, the World Bank Group adopted two new goals to guide its work: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. More specifically, the goals are to reduce extreme poverty in the world to less than 3 percent by 2030, and to foster income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the...

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The World Bank Group A to Z

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank Group

The World Bank Group (also known as the “Bank Group”) is the largest anti-poverty institution in the world, offering loans, advice, knowledge, and an array of customized resources to more than 100 developing countries and countries in transition. Established in 1944 and headquartered in...

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Successful Rural Finance Institutions.

Yaron, J. - World Bank Group - 1992

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Public Expenditure Reform under Adjustment Lending. Lessons from World Bank Experiences

Huther, J.; Roberts, S.; Shah, A. - World Bank Group - 1997

subsidies, reforming public employment, cutting the public sector wage bill, emphasizing operations and maintenance of existing …

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SUBSIDIES AND COUNTERVAILING MEASURES - CRITICAL ISSUES FOR THE URUGUAY ROUND.

BALASSA, B. - World Bank Group - 1989

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Subsidies in World Fisheries. A Reexamination

Milazzo, M. - World Bank Group - 1998

This study examines the role of subsidies in explaining the obvious and injurious mismatch between fishing effort and … biological production capacity. It uses the definitions and methodology of the WTO on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of … 1994 in defining the nature and size of subsidies to the sector and their impact, based on case studies for Japan, the …

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Poverty and Social Impact Assessment of Systematic Registration on Rural Romania

World Bank Group - 2016

The objective of this Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is to assess the impact of systematic registration on vulnerable individuals, in general, and Roma, in particular. Specifically, this PSIA focuses on the systematic registration approach piloted under the Complementing EU Support...

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Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh : Sustaining Poverty Reduction

World Bank Group - 2016

The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...

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Resilience or Resignation : Facing Droughts and Floods in Rural, Poor Bolivia

World Bank Group - 2017

Bolivia is a country with a vast geographical diversity, from a high plateau (altiplano) that reaches 3,000 meters above sea level to valleys at mid-altitude and tropical plains. During the last decade, the magnitude of Bolivia's weather patterns has undergone significant changes; extreme...

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No One Left Behind : Rural Poverty in Indonesia

World Bank Group - 2020

Indonesia has sustained robust growth over a long period, and this has enabled millions of citizens to move out of poverty. Indonesia's gross domestic product (GDP) has risen at an average 5 percent a year since 1990 and 5.3 percent a year after the Asian financial crisis at the end of the...

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