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  Is Ethiopia’s productive safety net program enhancing dependency?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  Although development intervention programs can have far-reaching impacts beyond their stated objective, there have been few careful studies of unintended outcomes of such programs. This study assesses the impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on household size and dependency ratio using the difference in differences method based on a panel data of four rounds over 12 years.
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  How moving beyond GDP may help fight poverty in Africa

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2014

  This policy brief argues that the fixation with the use of the index of gross domestic product (GDP) has misled Africa’s policy makers. This approach has led to the replacement of informal economic structures with formal market systems, the exploitation of natural resources and the increase in income inequality as signs of economic progress.
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  Reality checks in Mozambique. Building better understanding of the dynamics of poverty and well-being. Sub-report Lago. Year three.

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2013

  The “Reality Checks in Mozambique” are expected to: Inform the public discussion among key development actors on poverty reduction, especially in the province of Niassa; Contribute to a better understanding of qualitative poverty monitoring methods in Mozambique; Provide Sweden with relevant qualitative data on developments and results from its engagement in Mozambique and support f
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  Predicting poverty for Mozambique 2000 to 2005: how robust are the models?

  Statistics Norway, 2007

  There is an increasing demand for more frequent measurements of the poverty situation. Statistics Norway has developed a method for monitoring the development in the time periods between full-fledged Household Income and Expenditure Surveys. The goal of this report is to test the method.
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  Tracking resource and policy impact in Malawi: incorporating Malawi poverty reduction strategy paper indicators, millennium development goals and poverty monitoring across sectors

  Statistics Norway, 2005

  This report, prepared jointly by the National Statistical Office in Malawi and Statistics Norway, establishes a system to analyse resource-related poverty alleviation efforts.
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  Tracking resource and policy impact: incorporating millennium development goals and indicators and poverty reduction strategy paper monitoring across sectors

  Statistics Norway, 2004

  The main aim of this report is to show how a statistical system for tracking resource and policy impact could be designed and implemented.
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  Poverty in Mozambique: discourse, analysis and monitoring - suggestions for national stakeholders and the donor community

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  The aim of this report is to advise the Norwegian Embassy in Mozambique, and its partners, on how best to support poverty analysis and monitoring in Mozambique specifically and in the sectors of health, energy and fisheries in particular.
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  The polyscopic landscape of poverty research: “state of the art” in international poverty research

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2005

  This paper discusses major trends in poverty research and identifies promising research results that might form a useful base for further research on causes, processes and formations of poverty in the South.The report consists of four parts:a polyscopic landscape of poverty research, outlining the directions that some of the major actors in poverty research have taken and points to some
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  Poverty-conservation mapping applications

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Poverty-conservation mapping is a useful approach to explore linkages between development (people) and conservation (nature). Although poverty-environment mapping in biodiversity applications has been limited, there are numerous potential applications that are of use to IUCN and its members.
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  The role of participation and empowerment in income and poverty dynamics in Indonesia 1993-2000

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This study aims to assess the effects on changes in income and poverty reduction on the basis of belonging to a democratic decision making community, or belonging to a society with a higher degree of participation.To illustrate this, the authors construct an empowerment index and one participation index, and use these to test their assumptions.