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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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Resumen: El presente artículo examina la evolución y composición del gasto total y el gasto social y su participación … del CONFIS, Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público. En este sentido, se destaca el incremento del gasto social Nacional … en el PIB en el período 2007 - 2010, tanto del gobierno Nacional como en el Departamental con el fin de hacer un …
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This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1998, 1996 and 2001 of the distribution of several important individual attributes on the basis of...
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asociado a la disminución de la pobreza y de la desigualdad internacional- para analizar tanto su relación con los cambios …
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institutions which are characterized by ‘self-governing, not-for-profit and with an explicit social mission’. Their successful …’s failure to provide basic social services and reduce poverty. Furthermore, the opinion that NGOs represent the voices of poor …
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In our efforts to better understand how policies geared towards poverty reduction may impact teen childbirth, we analyzed the impact of the 10-20-30 provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, P.L. 111-5) on teen childbirth. The 10-20-30 provision allocated at least...
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(such as a global reinsurance scheme) to insure countries against the risk of increased demands for social protection from … type would foster the widespread introduction in countries of standing national social safety nets (such as employment …
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The principal objective of this paper is to test whether public expenditures on education, health and development activities have been effective in reducing poverty in India. For sensitivity and robustness of the results, three different measures of poverty belonging to the...
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During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality. Given all of the current challenges facing Haiti, the World Bank Group country partnership framework aims to support the country's efforts to provide economic opportunities for...
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