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Doha Scenarios, Trade Reforms, and Poverty in the Philippines : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Cororaton, Caesar B.; Cockburn, John; Corong, Erwin - 2012

Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … households in the wake of falling world prices and demand for the Philippines' agricultural exports. The authors find that the … poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …

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On the Central Role of Small Farms in African Rural Development Strategies

Larson, Donald F.; Muraoka, Rie; Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2016

Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural poor, by building on the limited resources farming households already possess. It is also the best and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using...

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The Impact of a Community Development and Poverty Reduction Program on Early Childhood Development in Morocco

Abdelkhalek, Touhami; Bassett, Lucy; Benkassmi, Mohamed; … - 2016

Participatory community development programs are designed to match government investments with local needs. In Morocco, where issues of inequality and poverty are high on the national agenda, a community development program, the National Initiative for Human Development, targeted high-poverty...

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Do Rural Infrastructure Investments Benefit the Poor? Evaluating Linkages--A Global View, A Focus on Vietnam

Songco, Jocelyn A. - 2013

What are linkages between rural infrastructure investments, and household welfare? In the past, most of the evaluations to assess the effectiveness of a project, focused on physical outputs, and success of project implementation. In recent years, more attention has been given to the impact of...

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Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China

Chen, Shaohua; Mu, Ren; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper revisits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China 10 years after it began and four years after disbursements ended. The program emphasized community participation in multi-sectoral interventions (including farming, animal husbandry, infrastructure...

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Can Local Institutions Reduce Poverty? Rural Decentralization in Burkina Faso

Donnelly-Roark, Paula; Ouedraogo, Karim; Ye, Xiao - 2001

The authors present evidence that in Burkina Faso, certain high-performing local institutions contribute to equitable economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization. The structure of these high-performing local...

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Collective Action and Community Development : Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India

Desai, Raj M.; Joshi, Shareen - 2013

In response to the problems of high coordination costs among the poor, efforts are underway in many countries to organize the poor through "self-help groups" (SHGs) -- membership-based organizations that aim to promote social cohesion through a mixture of education, access to finance, and...

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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence...

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Social Protection, Poverty and the Post-2015 Agenda

Fiszbein, Ariel; Kanbur, Ravi; Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2013

Social protection is absent from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and only recently has gained some prominence in the post-2015 discourse. In the past quarter century, however, rising inequality has often accompanied economic growth. At the same time, the growing importance of risk and...

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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries

Bhargava, Alok - 2014

, the Philippines, and Tanzania is summarized. The supply of nutritious foods is appraised from the viewpoint of improving …

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