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    Grassroots participatory budgeting process in Negros Province

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    In an effort to attain the manifold goals of inclusive growth, poverty reduction, and good governance at the local level, the Aquino administration implemented the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Process (formerly called Bottom-Up Budgeting) in 2012.
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    Bottom-up budgeting FY 2015 Assessment: Camarines Sur

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    Bottom-up Budgeting or BUB (also called Grassroots Participatory Budgeting) is a budgetary reform introduced during the PNoy Aquino administration in 2012.
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    Bottom-up budgeting process assessment: Agusan del Norte

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the bottom-up budgeting (BUB) exercise in 2012.
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    Economic Policy Monitor 2014: Effective regulations for sustainable growth

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    This fifth issue of the PIDS Economic Policy Monitor (EPM) highlights the importance of regulatory coherence and quality to realize rapid, sustainable, and inclusive growth.
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    Economic issue of the day: global value chains

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    Global value chains (GVCs) play an important role in creating a more inclusive global economy. The interconnected networks of production and services are enabling paths for small and medium enterprises to expand and grow.
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    Women and girls failed: the Burundian refugee response in Tanzania

    Refugees International, 2015
    Since April 2015, political instability and violence has rocked Burundi, forcing an estimated 220,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries. Approximately half of these refugees are women, and around half of the many women who reported gender-based violence (GBV) upon reaching refugee camps in Tanzania required post-rape care.
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    Empowered and safe: economic strengthening for girls in emergencies

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2014
    Even in times of peace and stability, adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable members of society in low-income countries. In times of emergency, this vulnerability is multiplied, with girls facing various rights violations, including high rates of gender-based violence (GBV).
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    The growth of micro and small, cluster based furniture manufacturing firms and their implications for poverty reduction in Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2012
    Micro, small, and medium manufacturing enterprises (MSMEs) offer good examples of firm clustering and incipient entry points for industrial development in Tanzania. This study analyses the growth of cluster-based, micro and small furniture-manufacturing firms located in the Keko, Buguruni-Malapa, and Mbezi Beach kwa Komba industrial clusters.
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    Mining tax in Zambia

    Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, 2013
    With some of the worst poverty statistics in Africa, Zambia appears to have  little to show for a century of mining.  But  given good policies, the country’s considerable mineral wealth clearly represents a real opportunity  to  grow  the  economy  and  tackle  poverty.
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    From deprivation to distribution: is global poverty becoming a matter of national inequality

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    The majority of the world’s poor, by income and multi-dimensional poverty measures, live in countries classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Such patterns matter beyond the

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