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The new global poverty estimates – digging deeper into a hole
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S. Reddy
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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For the first time since 1993, the World Bank released new Purchasing Power Parity rates – calculated for 2005 – earlier this year. Accordingly, the new international poverty line is es...
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Jobs, jobs, jobs – the policy challenge
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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Although the MDGs do not specifically address employment issues, people’s access to income-generating work is a prerequisite for poverty reduction. Apart from income, employment is ...
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Cash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship
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G. I. Hirata
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluati...
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Are the MDGs priority in development strategies and aid programmes?
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S. Fukuda-Parr
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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There is much doubt whether the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be realised but why is this? This paper asks whether the structure of national development programmes and aid strategies are...
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Banking the un-Banked: improving access to financial services
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A.K. Ghalib;D. Hailu
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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The paper highlights policy recommendations for increasing access to financial services for those who have had no access to any form of financial services; whom the paper calls the ‘un banked&rs...
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The macroeconomics of scaling-up aid: what we know in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia
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D. Hailu
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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Focusing on the cases of Kenya, Malawi and Zambia, this paper aims to identify how concerns about macroeconomic instability have curtailed an effective response to MDG scale-up. It compares spending a...
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A global realignment by 2020: U.S. decline, emerging economies rise
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F. Cripps;T. McKinley
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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Following the projection up until 2015 which predicted a falling dollar and a US recession in an earlier paper, this current document builds on that and projects outcomes for 2020 and assumes a sizabl...
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Equitable access to financial services: is microfinancing sufficient?
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D. Hailu
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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In recent years, most emerging countries have reformed financial service policies to motivate affordable financial services, even to the remote poor households. However, less than 10 percent of the to...
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Towards an employment-centred development strategy for poverty reduction in The Gambia: macroeconomic and labour market aspects
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J. Heintz;C. Oya;E. Zepeda
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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Over the past decade The Gambia has experienced higher rates of growth than at any other time in its post-independence history. But faster growth has not translated into broad-based development and...
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The urgent need for financial reform to mobilise savings in sub-Saharan Africa
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S. Aybar;C. Lapavitsas
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International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth,
2008
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A highly unsatisfactory mobilisation of savings by the liberalised financial systems of Sub-Saharan Africa has severely constrained investment and growth in the region. To a large degree, Sub-Saharan ...
