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    Poverty and social transfers in Poland

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    How well did Poland's system of social transfers help alleviate poverty in 1993, and what changes in the allocation of social transfer funds would improve the distribution of income?Since January 1990, Poland's social safety net has changed greatly. Unemployment benefits were introduced, for example, because of escalating unemployment (about 15 percent of the labor force at the end of 1993).
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    Social safety net and the poor during the transition : the case of Bulgaria

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Bulgaria's social safety net is not well targeted; too many benefits accrue to better off households rather than to the poor.
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    Educational attainment in developing countries : new estimates and projections disaggregated by gender

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Expectations are that educational attainment will grow most in the Middle East and North Africa and least in Sub Saharan Africa. It should improve greatly in South Asia, where the level of attainment is lowest. The gender gap in education may have risen in the past decade.
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    Savings and education : a life - cycle model applied to a panel of 74 countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    In the long run, education improves the national saving rate and hence growth. But this positive effect takes time to be completely realized, and it varies across regions and levels of development.Morisset and Revoredo analyze how education contributes to savings. There are many reasons to believe that education and savings may be linked, either positively or negatively.
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    The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't : an African case study

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    In urban areas of Cote d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned matters most.Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend to focus on the incidence of poverty at a particular point in time.
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    Restructuring of enterprise social assets in Russia : trends, problems, possible solutions

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    What to do about social services that Russia's state enterprises have traditionally provided is a major issue in enterprise restructuring and public policy reform.
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    How can China provide income security for its rapidly aging population? / Barry Friedman ... [et al.]

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    If China implements a partially funded multipillar pension system, that reform must go hand in hand with reform of the financial sector and restructured investment procedures that emphasize the "right" mix of competition, diversification, and regulation.
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    Poverty and Social Transfers in Hungary

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Hungary's social safety net could be improved to better target benefits to the poor. Among the possibilities for reform: abolish the child care allowance and fee, institute new child care benefits, and improve means testing for social assistance.
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    Ghana's Labor Market (1987-92)

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    The rate of return to education in Ghana increases with higher education and work experience. The return for each additional year of schooling ranges from 4 to 6 percent, quite high for a Sub-Saharan African country.
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    Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Summit of the Americas)

    Center for Hemispheric Policy, 1999

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