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  Addressing the employment-poverty nexus in Kenya: comparing cash-transfer and job-creation programmes

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  What is the link between employment and poverty reduction in Kenya? This paper examines unemployment, underemployment, employment and labour earnings, and the relationship of all these with poverty. Based on an analysis of a Labour Force Survey, the author finds that:
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  Dreams that do not come true: re-addressing social security to expand old-age social protection: the case of informal workers in El Salvador

  Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2007

  This paper explores obstacles and opportunities to expand social protection for informal workers in El Salvador. It rules out the short-term possibility that old-age social protection in El Salvador will be expanded through social security measures. Workers are entitled to pension only if they fulfil certain minimum requirements that are out of reach for the majority.
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  Displaced distortions: financial market failures and seemingly inefficient resource allocation in low-income rural communities

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2007

  Displaced distortions occur when market failures, such as limited access to credit and insurance, compel people to resolve their financing problems through seemingly inefficient resource allocation. This paper examines the distinct causes and policy implications of displaced distortions compared to those of inefficient resource allocation.
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  Philippines: Agriculture expenditure review

  World Bank Publications, 2007

  This document presents the Agriculture Public Expenditure Review (AgPER), a document which assesses the ways of increasing the impact of public expenditures on broad-based agricultural growth in the Philippines.
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  Pendragon

  Pendragon is a specialist pensions information company, dedicated solely to providing information to the pensions movement and pensions professionals.
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  Stock market development in Sub-Saharan Africa: critical issues and challenges

  International Monetary Fund, 2007

  Stock markets can promote growth by enhancing the operations of domestic financial systems. Yet if they do not perform efficiently, stock market development can be detrimental to developing country’s markets given its high cost and poor financial structures. This paper examines the controversial link between stock market development and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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  Managing resources to build back and create a better future for Nias : Nias public expenditure analysis 2007

  World Bank Publications, 2007

  Already one of the poorest regions in Indonesia, the island of Nias was badly affected by the twin disasters of the 26 December 2004 tsunami and a devastating earthquake that struck three months later, on 28 March 2005. Almost 1,000 lives were lost in the two disasters and buildings and infrastructure were destroyed in coastal areas and across the island.
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  Budget support: as good as the strategy it finances

  Social Watch, 2007

  International aid donors have increasingly moved toward direct budget support as a means of reducing poverty and meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This article discusses the relevance of budget support to financing the MDGs, how it should be designed and what attitude civil society organisations should adopt towards it. 
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  Vietnam: increasing access to credit through collateral (secured transactions) reform

  World Bank, 2007

  This report analyses Vietnam's secured transactions framework and the decade-long reform efforts within the context of global best practices. It is based mainly on the financial sector survey, a series of individual and focus group meetings in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city, analysis of the Vietnamese laws, and international best-practice reviews.
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  United Nations Policy Notes for National Development Strategies

  The outcome document of the 2005 United Nations World Summit called on countries to prepare national development strategies, taking into account the international development goals agreed in the vario

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