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    African Development Bank Data Portal

    The AFDB Statistical Data Portal has been developed in response to the increasing demand for statistical data and indicators relating to African Countries.
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    International Development Policy

    International Development Policy is a peer-reviewed e-journal that promotes cutting-edge research and policy debates on global development.
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    Lakshya: cash-flow game for rural households

    2013
    Evolving from an action research project conducted in the Vidarbha areas of Maharashtra, India, the need for a comprehensive yet simple participatory cash-flow toolkit was realised to help rural households in recognising patterns, shortfalls and strengths of their cash-flow profiles.
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    International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD)

    The ICTD is a global policy research network, devoted to improving the quality of tax policy and administration in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Pension coverage in China and the expansion of the New Rural Social Pension Scheme

    HelpAge International, 2013
    In just over 60 years, the pension system in China has changed from a residual policy issue in the shadow of major economic reform, to one that is now intrinsically linked to socio-economic transformation in China and underpins the transition from an export-driven to a consumption-based economy.
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    Social protection floors and pension systems: the role of a "citizen's pension"

    HelpAge International, 2012
    There is increasing recognition of the role of social protection floors in eradicating poverty, reducing inequality and sustaining equitable economic growth in developing countries.
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    Department of Economics, Strathclyde University

    University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
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    Expanding microfinance in Latin America’s rural areas

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Rural finance has the potential to help poor people out of poverty, and Latin America has met that challenge in some unique ways.This Brief by discusses impacts of microfinance’s in rural areas, presenting evidence on rural poverty as well as on microfinance’s positive effects on consumption and investment in education.
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    Final Impact Evaluation of the Saving for Change Program in Mali, 2009-2012

    2013
    Saving for Change (SfC) is a community savings group programme designed and implemented by Oxfam America, Freedom from Hunger, and the Strømme Foundation. SfC operates in 13 countries in West Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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    How best to measure pension adequacy

    Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 2013
    Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the fore.

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