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Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them : an increased role for identity documents in the global South

Hunter, Wendy - 2016

Having a birth certificate is a stepping stone to acquiring an array of rights and benefits, including other documents necessary to navigate in and outside of one's home country. Despite its importance, many children in the developing world never obtain a birth certificate. Whether one does so...

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Aid and infrastructure financing : emerging challenges with a focus on Africa

Addison, Tony; Anand, Prathivadi Bhayankaram - 2012

, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to … very different role in facilitating the creation of institutional mechanisms that help mobilize more funding from other … ; infrastructure ; Africa ; finance ; funds ; private sector …

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Aid effectiveness : opening the black box

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of...

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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa

Page, John M.; Shimeles, Abebe - 2014

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to …

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Is there a Brazilian model of development? : are there lessons for countries in Africa?

Amann, Edmund; Barrientos, Armando - 2014

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The paper argues that Brazil's unique combination of...

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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa : evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania

Vivien Houngbonon, Georges; Bauer, Arthur; N'Diaye, … - 2014

In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...

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"Affordability" and the political economy of social protection in contemporary Africa

Seekings, Jeremy - 2017

Africa: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and the semi-autonomous territory of Zanzibar. In all four cases, political elites …

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The global politics of social protection

Hickey, Sam; Seekings, Jeremy - 2017

Africa. The paper places this move in historical perspective and examines the role that a particular aid agency played in … shaping the transfer of cash transfers to Africa. …

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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021

This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We first estimate the impact of the crisis on disposable...

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Africa's lockdown dilemma : high poverty and low trust

Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020

The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...

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