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Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence
World Bank, 2004This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labour in the total manufacturing labour force.The authors use a sample of 76 countries to find:there is a strong association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita growththis relationship, hoDocumentPRSP annual progress reports and joint staff assessments: a review of progress
Overseas Development Institute, 2004This paper reflects on the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) four years after its inception. Forty one countries are implementing full PRSPs, and eleven more are using an interim PRS.DocumentGender budgeting analysis: a study in Maharashtra’s agriculture
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004This paper analyses the impact that state budgets of Maharashtra, India had on women in agriculture between 1998 to 2002.DocumentTurning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ActionAid International, 2004This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.DocumentPoor relations?: PRSPs and the response to HIV/AIDS and children
Tearfund, 2004This Tearfund paper examines the use of the Poverty Reduction Strategy process (PRSP) in response to HIV/AIDS. It summarises the relationships between poverty and HIV/AIDS, highlights some of the key features of the PRSPs, and analyses the vision and reality of PRSPs in responding to HIV/AIDS. It then considers the future of PRSPs in increasing responses to HIV/AIDS.DocumentCombining methodologies for better targeting of the extreme poor: lessons from BRAC’s CFPR/TUP programme
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2004This paper aims to assess the effectiveness and draw lessons from a targeting strategy used in identifying the ultra poor.DocumentDonors and childhood poverty in sub Saharan Africa: approaches and aid mechanisms in Ghana and Tanzania
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004This paper study examines how selected donors approach poverty affecting children, and how they use aid to tackle child poverty through support to particular activities and through the aid instruments.DocumentGovernment spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes
Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.DocumentThe missing link in growth and sustainable development: closing the gender gap
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004This issues paper discusses how to take gender into consideration when addressing growth issues and how to close the gender gap in African development.