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  Poverty, institutions, peasant band conservation investment in Northern Ethiopia

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This PhD thesis provides an econometric analysis of various aspects of the rural economy in Northern Ethiopia.The thesis consists of five papers:an in-depth analysis of poverty, its distribution, dynamics and its correlates within the framework of the role of economic reforms on poverty reduction in a remote, unstable and environmentally troubled regionlooks at the issue of the effi
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  Health, shocks and poverty persistence

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper, published by World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), reviews the evidence on the impact of droughts and other serious “shocks” (transitory events which worsen the economic situation of a household) on child and adult health, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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  Poverty and social impact analysis Indonesia rice tariff

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This study explores the poverty impacts of an increase in rice tariffs in Indonesia.
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  Growth, distribution and poverty in Africa: messages from the 1990s

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper reviews recent evidence on the trends in household well-being in Africa during the 1990s.
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  Risk-sharing networks among households in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper tests the role of informal risk-sharing networks by setting up a limited commitment model and using panel data on informal credit transactions from Ethiopia.Findings:enforcement problems limit the direct role of credit transactions in risk sharing arrangements between rural households, whether the villages are ethnically homogenous or nothouseholds with more land have bet
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  Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper revisits the role of targeted transfers in poor countries in light of theories on the social costs of uninsured risks and unmitigated inequalities. It offers a perspective on social protection policies in poor countries, suggesting that there is scope for using these policies to compensate for the market failures that help perpetuate poverty, particularly in high-inequality settings.
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  Child poverty, child socio-economic rights and Budget 2003 - The ‘right thing’ or a small step in the ‘right direction’?

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2003

  This budget brief assesses the extent to which the 2003 South African Budget addresses widespread child poverty and the delivery of children's socio-economic rights.
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  There is more to a decent income in lengthening old age than individual savings: a discussion of income security for old age in Singapore and Malaysia

  International Social Security Association, 2003

  This paper compares the approaches to income provision for old age taken by both Singapore and Malaysia.Findings:individual savings alone do not represent the best option for income security into old ageincreased access to savings prior to retirement, through dedicated accounts and specified schemes, lessens the ability of provident funds to meet their primary objective, namely secu
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  The inequality of social capital: agency, association and the reproduction of chronic poverty.

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper draws on research in Tanzania to question ideas that building social capital through getting institutions right in development can overcome poverty .
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  Risk and vulnerability in Ethiopia: learning from the past, responding to the present, preparing for the future

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This paper aims to learn from the household survival strategies in Ethiopia that have evolved to manage diverse disaster hazards with a view that such strategies can inform more effective disaster preparedness, relief, recovery and prevention, policies and interventions.This report describes the systems that are in place that are designed for the early detection of crisis, the nature of humanit

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