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  Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

  Program on the Global Demography of Aging, 2014

  Africa’s population is expected to grow to 2.3 billion by 2050, of whom 60% will be urban. This urbanisation is an important challenge for the next few decades. According to several research papers and reports, Africa’s urbanisation was, in contrast with most other regions in the world, not associated with economic growth in past decades.
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  Improving basic services for the bottom forty percent - lessons from Ethiopia

  World Bank, 2014

  Ethiopia, like most developing countries, has opted to deliver services such as basic education, primary health care, agricultural extension advice, water, and rural roads through a highly decentralised system.
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  Growth and economic opportunities for women: literature review to inform the DFID-IDRC-Hewlett Foundation research program on women's economic empowerment, gender equality and growth in low income countries

  International Development Research Centre, 2013

  This is a background paper for a new research programme on women’s economic empowerment. It is a comprehensive literature review on the state of the field. Section 1 briefly discusses the global evidence on existing gender disparities in employment, wages, business opportunities, and the care economy.
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  A strategic agricultural sector and food security diagnostic for Burma

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2013

  Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Furthermore, given that two-thirds of the population works primarily in agriculture, low farm productivity translates into high rates of poverty and food insecurity.
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  Urban development: structured learning guide

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  The purpose of this booklet is to support advisers in DFID to strengthen their knowledge of urban development themes by providing signposts to quality assured references, grey literature and other useful learning materials.
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  Poverty and gender inequality in asset ownership among households in Southern Nigeria

  2014

  This study concerns gender inequality in the ownership of certain assets among households in Southern Nigeria. With the aid of a structured questionnaire, data were obtained from 60 households using the multistage sampling technique. Results of the analysis are presented using histograms.
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  Social protection for the elderly as a development strategy: a case study of Kenya’s old persons cash transfer programme

  2010

  Kenya has made progressive investments in social protection for the ageing, providing lessons and existing opportunities for similar programmes. In Kenya, there has been a paradigm shift from universal social protection schemes targeted at formal employees to inclusive schemes including both formal and informal sectors, corporations and individuals.
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  Centre for Micro Finance, India (CMF)

  The Centre for Micro Finance aims to improve the accessibility and quality of financial services for the poor through rigorous research, knowledge dissemination and evidence-based policy outreach.
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  BRICS-cities and the issue of social mobility: attraction of capital and the right to the city

  BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014

  The consolidation of a group of countries, like the BRICS nations, as strong global players demonstrates to the whole world that mobility is a real possibility in the international arena. What the BRICS grouping does not make clear, however, is whether this mobility will result in profound systemic changes towards a more equal and democratic world.
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  Promoting the rights of older people in the community in Mae Hong Son province

  HelpAge International, 2014

  Thailand has a national plan on ageing and national bodies aiming to promote wellbeing of older people, including promoting their rights. Still, it appears that gaining information on and accessing the rights and entitlements under the law is quite limited in scope.

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