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Africa Portal
The Africa Portal is an online resource that seeks to broaden the availability, accessibility and use of policy research on issues critical to the future of Africa. - Document
Topic Guide: sub-national financing for urban infrastructure
Evidence on Demand, 2015Developing countries are growing faster than in the past, with significantly higher rates of growth than those in the developed world. Growth rates in Africa and India were well above 5% in 2014 and those in Ethiopia and Rwanda were higher than 7.5%.DocumentThe prospects and politics of social protection reform in Zambia
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015In Zambia, the general election in 2011 produced a major political change when the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), which had been in office for two decades, was defeated by the Patriotic Front (PF). The PF promised Zambians ‘pro-poor change’ as well as ‘more jobs, lower taxes, and more money in the pocket’.OrganisationWorld Centre for Sustainable Development / RIO+ Centre
The World Centre for Sustainable Development (RIO+ Centre) was established as a legacy of the Rio+20 Conference to keep the commitment to inclusive and sustainable development alive.DocumentMaking youth employment policies work
Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015Government policy and public investment in Kenya has focused disproportionately on formal private sector development and on education that is geared to urban wage employment as a solution to youth unemployment. A closer look at the figures, however, reveals that underemployment, especially in rural areas, is the greater challenge.DocumentWhere next for social protection?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda in the past ten to 15 years raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another development fad that declines and ultimately disappears.DocumentInvestigating the presence of regional economic growth convergence in the Philippines using Kalman Filter
Philippine Journal of Development, 2010This paper investigates the presence of stochastic and dynamic convergence in the 14 regional economies in the Philippines in terms of per capita gross regional domestic product (GRDP) using panel data from 1988 to 2007.DocumentPopulation growth and economic development: empirical evidence from the Philippines
Philippine Journal of Development, 2010In recent decades, new forms of the Malthusian idea of limited food supply and scarce resources have surfaced. The notion of “peak oil” in the 1970s and warnings of an impending food crisis have generated intense debates among economists and policymakers. Various concerns have been expressed about the ability of the world economy to sustain the ever-expanding world population.DocumentImpact of the rice trade policy reforms on household welfare in the Philippines
Philippine Journal of Development, 2010The effects of rice trade policy reforms on household welfare, as indicated by changes in consumer and producer prices, are analysed in this paper using nonparametric regression and density estimation. Since many households in the Philippines are consumers and producers of rice, the net benefit ratio (NBR) was used to measure the change in household welfare given changes in prices.DocumentA review of social insurance in the Philipppines
Philippine Journal of Development, 2009This paper aims to review and assess the protection afforded by the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), two of the three agencies tasked with administering social insurance in the country.Pages
