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    Access to formal banking and household finances: Experimental evidence from India

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    Access to formal banking is spreading across the world. Obtaining a bank account may transform how people manage their finances, and affect their savings and consumption. We report from a field experiment that randomly provides access to a bank account to a representative sample of villagers in rural India.
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    Poverty among Sudanese communities along the eastern borders: A case study from the Kassala and Gedarif States

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    The data for this paper was collected through a survey aimed at reviewing the socioeconomic conditions of the communities living along the Sudanese border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The survey was conducted during July-August 2013 (Abdel Ati, ElTayeb Mohamadain, and Faiz Hamad ElNil 2014). Its main objectives include:
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    Rural poverty in Malanje, Angola

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    This report is part of the research programme “Cooperation on Research and Development in Angola” between Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica (CEIC) at the Catholic University in Luanda, Angola and Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. The objective of the programme is to increase the quality, quantity and availability of relevant research-based knowledge on Angola.
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    Development in the 'raw': What livelihood trajectories and poverty outcomes tell us about welfare regimes and resilience in Afghanistan

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    Based on a detailed study of the lives of 64 rural Afghan households since 2002 in three contrasting parts of the country it was found that eight years on many struggle to meet day to day needs and are even worse off than before. While many have experienced improvements in access to basic services, livelihood security has declined for the majority.
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    Climate change, vulnerability, food security and human health in rural Pakistan: a gender perspective

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2015
    Pakistan is among the most vulnerable countries in the South Asian region given still overwhelming dependence of its population on agriculture which in turn mainly depends on the Indus Basin River System. The intensity and frequency of extreme climate events have increased in Pakistan during the recent decades.
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    The impact of fiscal subsidy on China's new rural pension system: a natural experiment

    AgEcon Search, 2016
    The China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) has rapidly expanded since its first implementation in 2009,and has covered all counties of China since 2012. This paper studied the impact of fiscal subsidies on the participation rate and contributions of the rural reside
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    Child Underweight, Land Productivity and Public Services: A District-Level Analysis for India

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016
    Though India’s rank has improved in the Global Hunger Index, contributed largely by the fall in the underweight rates for children, concerns of high level of undernutrition in predominantly agricultural pockets remain.
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    Qualitative research on women's economic empowerment and social protection - a research guide

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    The FAO's Social Protection and Rural Women's Economic Empowerment research programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of th e United Nations (FAO) falls under FAO's Strategic Objective 3 of Reducing Rural Poverty and is delivered through two flagship initiatives: the Rural Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative (RWEE) and the From Protection to Production (PtoP) programme.
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    Research on rural women's economic empowerment and social protection The impacts of Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP)

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation s has started a policy-oriented research programme on Social Protection and Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment which aims to:
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    Feminist Africa e-spaces:e-politics

    African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2013
    Feminist Africa (FA) is a continental gender studies journal that provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, FA is guided by a profound commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa, and seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design.

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