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Poverty reduction 11,471 Armutsbekämpfung 11,141 Armut 4,532 Poverty 4,167 Entwicklungsländer 1,972 Developing countries 1,935 USA 1,109 United States 1,104 Economic growth 1,055 India 1,049 Indien 1,047 Wirtschaftswachstum 998 Welt 956 World 952 Sozialpolitik 806 Microfinance 804 Entwicklungshilfe 801 Mikrofinanzierung 795 Development aid 770 Öffentliche Sozialleistungen 766 Social security benefits 765 Social policy 743 Einkommensverteilung 740 Income distribution 739 Ländliche Armut 736 Rural poverty 736 Economic development 730 Entwicklung 730 Wirkungsanalyse 654 Impact assessment 653 Entwicklungspolitik 615 Theorie 553 Theory 549 Development policy 548 poverty reduction 542 Sustainable development 492 Nachhaltige Entwicklung 488 Bangladesh 424 Bangladesch 413 Poverty Reduction 412
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Article in journal 3,410 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 3,410 Graue Literatur 3,251 Non-commercial literature 3,251 Working Paper 1,933 Arbeitspapier 1,848 Aufsatz im Buch 1,686 Book section 1,686 Collection of articles of several authors 969 Sammelwerk 969 Amtsdruckschrift 317 Government document 317 Konferenzschrift 316 Aufsatzsammlung 308 Conference proceedings 234 Hochschulschrift 190 Thesis 168 Case study 126 Fallstudie 126 Bibliografie enthalten 84 Bibliography included 84 Collection of articles written by one author 48 Sammlung 48 Mehrbändiges Werk 39 Multi-volume publication 39 Bibliografie 34 Conference paper 34 Konferenzbeitrag 34 Statistik 33 Lehrbuch 25 Reprint 21 Statistics 20 Glossar enthalten 18 Glossary included 18 Commentary 16 Handbook 16 Handbuch 16 Kommentar 16 Festschrift 15 Systematic review 13
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Ravallion, Martin 99 Kanbur, Ravi 80 Gaiha, Raghav 45 Hulme, David 41 Klasen, Stephan 40 Imai, Katsushi S. 36 Mosley, Paul 33 Warr, Peter George 32 Wodon, Quentin 30 Banerjee, Abhijit V. 29 Fan, Shenggen 29 Balisacan, Arsenio M. 28 Christiaensen, Luc J. 28 Barrett, Christopher B. 25 Khandker, Shahidur R. 25 Lustig, Nora 25 Zeller, Manfred 25 Nankani, Gobind T. 24 Nunnenkamp, Peter 24 Braun, Joachim von 23 Chen, Shaohua 23 Duclos, Jean-Yves 23 Addison, Tony 22 Barrientos, Armando 22 Thiele, Rainer 22 Collier, Paul 20 Dollar, David 20 Karlan, Dean 20 Manasan, Rosario G. 20 Datt, Gaurav 19 Diao, Xinshen 19 Hemmer, Hans-Rimbert 19 Lay, Jann 19 Wiebelt, Manfred 19 Attanasio, Orazio P. 18 Hanna, Rema 18 Kakwani, Nanak 18 Sawada, Yasuyuki 18 Van de Walle, Dominique 18 Bibi, Sami 17
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Economics Research, World Bank Group 315 World Bank 259 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 135 Internationaler Währungsfonds 131 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 113 Weltbank 98 International Monetary Fund 88 Asian Development Bank 47 Inter-American Development Bank 42 Overseas Development Institute 34 International Food Policy Research Institute 30 Europäische Kommission 27 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 26 eSocialSciences 26 UNDP 21 Russell Sage Foundation 20 World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University 20 World Bank Group 19 World Institute for Development Economics Research 18 OECD 17 Brookings Institution 12 OECD / Development Centre 12 Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Government of the Philippines 11 UNCTAD / Secretariat 11 Economics Department, Queen's University 10 FAO 10 Internationales Arbeitsamt 10 Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs <Syracuse, NY> 10 OECD / Development Assistance Committee 10 Brooks World Poverty Institute 9 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit 9 Philippine Institute for Development Studies <Makati> 9 USA / General Accounting Office 9 Cornell University / Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program 8 Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) 8 Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa 8 Vereinte Nationen / Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 8 Weltbankgruppe 8 WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) 8 Arbeitsstelle für Entwicklungsländerforschung <Köln> 7
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IMF country report 485 Policy research working paper : WPS 174 World Bank Other Operational Studies 172 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 162 World Bank Publications 139 IMF Staff Country Reports 89 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 88 Discussion paper series / IZA 75 Journal of international development : the journal of the Development Studies Association 74 Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research 69 World Bank E-Library Archive 61 Development policy review 55 The journal of development studies : JDS 55 Policy research working paper 54 Working paper / Overseas Development Institute 52 The Pakistan development review : PDR 49 2020 vision briefs 42 A World Bank country study 40 Discussion paper series / Philippine Institute for Development Studies 40 BWPI working paper 37 International journal of social economics 37 Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & economic inequalities 36 Journal of development economics 34 Bangladesh journal of political economy 32 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 30 The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly journal of Indian Society of Labour Economics 30 LIS working paper series 29 Discussion paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research 27 Food policy : economics planning and politics of food and agriculture 27 IMF working paper 26 MPRA Paper 26 The European journal of development research : journal of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) 26 Working Papers / eSocialSciences 26 The Bangladesh development studies : the journal of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies 25 Asian development review 24 Research report / International Food Policy Research Institute 24 World Bank discussion paper 24 Canadian journal of development studies 23 IMF Working Papers 23 Kom / Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften 23
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana : a micro-level analysis
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020
The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to rural and community banks and microfinance...
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020
In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the...
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The impact of foreign direct investment, foreign aid and trade on poverty reduction : evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries
Anetor, Friday Osemenshan; Esho, Ebes; Verhoef, Grietjie - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
Despite postulations on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign aid, and trade on growth, empirical evidence from extant research has been mixed. The focus of recent research has shifted from the growth effects of these international flows to their poverty reduction effects....
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Benign growth : structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
Warr, Peter George; Suphannachart, Waleerat - 2020
Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry's gross domestic product share increased, and the...
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Infrastructural development, poverty reduction and economic growth in Nigeria
Adelowokan, Oluwaseyi Adedayo; Ajayi, Felix Odunayo; … - In: EuroEconomica 38 (2019) 1, pp. 31-42
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/65, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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Rural poverty reduction in the 21st century
Nehring, Ryan (ed.); De la O Campos, Ana Paula (ed.) - 2019
While political dynamics differ greatly from one place to another, rural areas continue to have legitimate grievances. Poverty in rural areas is both more prevalent and more acute than in urban areas - about 80 per cent of the world's extremely poor people live in rural areas.
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Economic development, foreign aid and poverty reduction : paradigm in Nigeria
AUgbaka, Malachy; Awujola, Abayomi; Shcherbyna, Tatiana - In: SocioEconomic challenges : SEC 3 (2019) 4, pp. 5-12
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Financial institutions micro loans : a strategy for reducing poverty in Nigeria
Popoola, Mufutau Akanmu; Brimah, Aminu Nassir; … - In: Financial markets, institutions and risks 3 (2019) 3, pp. 13-17
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Extension demonstration : Grameen microfinance methods and capital access for low-income female entrepreneurs
Edelman, Mark A. - 2019
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Improving smallholders’ food security and resilience to climate change in Burkina Faso : the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters programme (BRACED)...
Herold, Jana - 2019
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The effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction program on schooling
Bertoni, Marco; Quynh Huynh; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school enrolment, using longitudinal data that span over 15 years and a difference-in-differences research design. We find that early treatment (at age 8) increases children enrolment by...
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Analysis of the effect of microfinance institutions on poverty reduction in Nigeria
Tafamel, Ehiabhi Andrew - In: Academic journal of economic studies 5 (2019) 2, pp. 114-119
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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up : a tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD
Kampamba, Remmy; Pellerano, Luca; Banda, Charles; … - 2019
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country's Seventh National Development Plan (2017-21). It further assesses the domestic...
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Can integrated social protection programmes affect social cohesion? : mixed-methods evidence from Malawi
Burchi, Francesco; Roscioli, Federico - 2021
The primary objective of social protection is to fight poverty and food insecurity. However, there are good theoretical arguments to support the idea that it can also contribute to more complex outcomes, such as social cohesion. This paper investigates the effects of the Tingathe Economic...
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The welfare impact of Viet Nam's national target programme "building a new countryside" : a quasi-experimental evaluation
Verwimp, Philip; Zhang, Sisi - 2018
We evaluate the impact on household income of Viet Nam's national target programme to build a new countryside for the period from 2010 to 2015. The purpose of the programme is to modernize rural Viet Nam. Given the universal implementation of the programme, we use a quasi-experimental approach...
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Financial inclusion and poverty reduction : selected approaches and implications for Mali's choice
Amadou, Dia - In: Academic journal of economic studies 4 (2018) 4, pp. 50-56
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Decomposing the contribution of migration to poverty reduction : methodology and application to Tanzania
Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Kanbur, Ravi - 2018
In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration...
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The new global agenda and the future of the multilateral development bank system
Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Kharas, Homi Jamshed; Plant, … - 2018
The authors assess the role of the multilateral development system and the reforms needed to support the new global agenda. There is an urgency to the reforms. The coming decades will see the largest urban expansion in history. More infrastructure needs to be built in the next 15 years than the...
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The effect of ethnic diversity on income : an empirical investigation using survey data from a post-conflict environment
Efendic, Adnan; Pugh, Geoff - 2018
This empirical study is based on nationally representative cross-sectional survey data gathered to investigate the effect of ethnic diversity on personal and family incomes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a post-conflict society. The 1992–1995 conflict was harmful for ethnic diversity. Yet,...
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Two decades of declining poverty but rising inequality in Laos
Warr, Peter George; Sitthiroth Rasphone; Menon, Jayant - 2018
Over the past two decades consumption inequality has risen within Laos, while absolute poverty incidence halved. The estimated Gini coefficient of private household expenditures per person rose from 0.311 to 0.364. This increase in the sample-based estimate of inequality was statistically...
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Six development paths in Southeast Asia : three plus three
Montes, Manuel F. - 2018
Six Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand) defied Gunnar Myrdal's pessimistic prognosis in his 1968 volume, Asian Drama, regarding their prospects for development. In the past half-century, these countries raised...
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Deriving macroeconomic benefits from public-private partnerships in developing Asia
Lee, Minsoo; Han, Xuehui; Gaspar, Raymond; Alano, Emmanuel - 2018
The provision of infrastructure and related services in developing Asia via publi-private partnership (PPP) increased rapidly during the late 1990s. Theoretical arguments support the potential economic benefits of PPPs, but empirical evidence is thin. This paper develops a framework identifying...
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Skills for decent work, life and sustainable development : vocational education and the sustainable development goals
McGrath, Simon; Alla-Mensah, Joyceline; Langthaler, … - 2018
While Vocational Education and Training (VET) was almost absent from earlier international development frameworks, the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) attach greater importance to it. VET is an integral part of the education SDG (SDG 4) and its transversal role for a...
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Regional variations of banking services and poverty reduction : evidence from subdistrict level administrative data of Bangladesh
Iqbal, Kazi; Roy, Paritosh K.; Shamsul Alam, A. K. - 2018
While the role of commercial banks in financing economic growth and reducing poverty and income inequality is well documented in cross-country setup, the regional variations of the banking services within a country and its association with poverty reduction is understudied. Understanding of the...
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Reducing poverty through fiscal decentralization in Ghana and beyond : a review
Agyemang-Duah, Williams; Gbedoho, Evans Kafui; Peprah, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-14
The unfinished agenda in the theory and practice of fiscal decentralization is how fiscal decentralization affects the universal plague of poverty reduction in developing economies. Focusing on developing economies especially Ghana, and also employing secondary sources of information, this...
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FDI inflows and poverty reduction in Botswana : an empirical investigation
Magombeyi, M. T.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The study employs autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)...
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Growth accelerations, structural change, and poverty reduction in Africa
Berthélemy, Jean-Claude - 2018
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The role of social protection in young people's transition to work in the Middle East and North Africa
Bird, Nicolò; Silva, Wesley - 2020
Understanding the factors that limit transitions to decent work remains a central concern for policymakers, as changes in the world of work considerably affect the availability and distribution of quality jobs. Many of these global issues are mirrored in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)....
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysis
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020
The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to rural and community banks and microfinance...
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020
In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the...
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Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
Warr, Peter George; Suphannachart, Waleerat - 2020
Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry's gross domestic product share increased, and the...
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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020
This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct capability measurement literature can be adapted for...
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Poverty and individual responsibility
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2020
Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably expected from them in their circumstances, but fail to achieve a minimum standard of living. To inform such policies, one needs a theory of justice accommodating norms of...
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Is the cure worse than the disease? : unintended effects of payment reform in a quantity-based transfer program
Meckel, Katherine - 2020
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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2020
Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...
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The dynamic electoral returns of a large anti-poverty program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2020
Short-term re-election strategies are widely used by governments around the world. This is problematic if governments can maximize their re-election chances by prioritizing short-term spending before an election over long-term reforms. This paper tests whether longer program exposure has a...
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Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty
Sumner, Andrew; Hoy, Chris; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - 2020
In this paper we make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption. Our estimates are based on three scenarios: low, medium, and high global contractions of 5, 10, and 20 per cent;...
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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare : an investigation of India's employment guarantee programme
Basu, Parantap; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a...
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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. Recipients are required to attend labor-market-oriented...
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What's behind pro-poor growth? : the role of shocks and measurement error
Klasen, Stephan; Lo Bue, Maria Carmela; Prete, Vincenzo - 2020
Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit the percentiles of the income distribution in different...
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The anti-poverty marginal benefit of public funds
Collado, Diego - 2020
Policy makers are generally interested in both the anti-poverty impact and the efficiency of reforms. To connect these two dimensions, I measure the poverty gap change per unit of net revenue that tax-benefit reforms produce. To isolate the impact of reforms and account for labour supply...
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A power development planning for Vietnam under the CO2 emission reduction targets
Do Thi Hiep; Hoffmann, Clemens - In: Energy reports 6 (2020) 2, pp. 19-24
The paper guides three scenarios of power planning for Vietnam for the 2018-2030 period under CO2 emission targets. The analysis employs a model of energy expansion in the form of an optimization problem with the objective of the discounted entire system cost minimization. With each CO2 emission...
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Financial literacy and poverty reduction : the case of Indonesia
Askar, Media Wahyudi; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Zhang, Yin-Fang - 2020
Given its role in affecting financial behavior, financial literacy has received considerable attention from researchers and policy makers alike. This paper employs data from a nationally representative survey in Indonesia to investigate the impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a...
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Social assistance for poverty reduction in the EU countries : an aspect of socio-economic sustainability
Balvociute, Rasa - In: European Journal of Sustainable Development : EJSD 9 (2020) 1, pp. 469-480
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The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor : the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lock-down
Bronka, Patryk; Collado, Diego; Richiardi, Matteo - 2020
We nowcast the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and related lock-down measures in the UK and then analyse the distributional and budgetary effects of the estimated individual income shocks, distinguishing between the effects of automatic stabilisers and those of the emergency policy...
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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs : some international comparisons
Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020
This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty...
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COVID-19 and global poverty : are LDCs being left behind?
Valensisi, Giovanni - 2020
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April 2020 growth forecasts. The analysis shows that the pandemic will have dramatic consequences, eroding many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction....
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The geography of poverty in Nigeria
Akpan, Uduak; Isihak, Salisu - 2020
As the 2030 target year for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) draws closer, development practitioners are increasing their activities in regions where poverty is predominant. In 2018, Nigeria attained an unenviable position of being the country with the highest number of persons...
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Do remittances promote economic growth and reduce poverty? : evidence from Latin American countries
Ekanayake, E. M.; Moslares, Carlos - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 2/35, pp. 1-26
In this study, we explore the hypotheses that (a) workers' remittances enhance economic growth in Latin American countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances have become an important source of income for many...
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