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Can social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
What effect do social safety nets have on poverty – on food security, trade, gender, and social relations? A recent Institute of Development Studies report suggests that the impact is far more wide-ranging and profound than previously thought. Even tiny transfers make a significant difference to the livelihoods of the very poor.
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Raising household energy prices in Poland : who gains? who loses?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
Programs that subsidize household energy prices in the transition economies help the rich more than they help the poor. Not only do the wealthy consume more energy in absolute terms than the poor, but they also spend a larger portion of their income on energy.Freund and Wallich examine the welfare effects of increasing household energy prices in Poland.
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Poverty alleviation in Jordan in the 1990's: lessons for the future
Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
The purpose of this report is to draw lessons for improving the policy design of poverty alleviation schemes in Jordan.