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Cambodia's land management and administration project
Biddulph, Robin - 2014
This paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian government had already attempted to implement...
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Local agency, development assistance and the legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
Curtis, Devon E. A. - 2014
Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet although Rwanda and Burundi share several important characteristics, the social,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494245
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Affordability and the political economy of social protection in contemporary Africa
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
The 'affordability' of new or expanded social protection programmes depends on more than an assessment of the fiscal costs or the poverty-reducing or developmental benefits. Diverse international organizations have shown that programmes costing less than or about 1 per cent of GDP have...
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Social protection, electoral competition, and political branding in Malawi
Hamer, Sam; Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Competitive elections in many parts of Africa generate powerful incentives to presidential candidates (and to a lesser extent political parties) to brand themselves in ways that transcend regional or ethnic loyalties. In Malawi, Joyce Banda - President from 2012 to 2014 - sought to distinguish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688593
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Evolution of land distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of land reform
Bardhana, Pranab; Lucab, Michael; Mookherjeeb, Dilip; … - 2011
This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of different factors. There was a substantial drop in land per household and land per capita, while within-village inequality rose....
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Making sense of multi-level and multi-actor governance of recovery in Ukraine
Udovyk, Oksana; Kylymnyk, Ievgen; Cuesta-Delgado, Daniel; … - 2023
recovery actors' networks and examining them within a multi-level governance framework, using interviews, social network …This paper sheds light on the complex recovery governance in Ukraine by providing a snapshot of the evolving national … analysis, and a sense-making workshop. It highlights the ambiguity of the multi-level recovery governance structure in Ukraine …
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Exploring the network of individuals that influence the media's inflation message in South Africa
Smuts, Katrien - 2023
The main goal of this study-and its potential to add to the policy debate-is to cast light on the network of voices … the news media. Using social network analysis, graph theory, and opinion leadership techniques, I describe the … relationships and identify the most prominent persons in the network. Second, I use textual analysis to compare the inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477623
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Are spatial networks of firms random? Evidence from Vietnam
Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Thijssen, Jacco - 2011
manufacturing firms by identifying patterns of spatial network formation that deviate from randomly generated networks. Using firm …. We then test whether the observed clustering of firms is greater than that of a randomly generated network. Our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319855
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Ethnicity and risk sharing network formation: Evidence from rural Viet Nam
Hoang, Quynh; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure; Saint-Macary, Camille - 2018
. In particular, it disentangles the effect of demographic and local distribution of ethnic groups on risk-sharing network …-sharing network formation through the combination of preferences to form a link with people from the same ethnic group (inbreeding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943939
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Pension funds in sub-Saharan Africa
Nyang'oro, Owen; Njenga, Githinji - 2022
The population structure the world over is going through a demographic shift, and the elderly proportion is projected to increase with population growth. This change is a matter of concern for sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, where the majority of the people are young and the rates of both...
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