This policy note is based on a project
on financial services and trade agreements in the Latin
America and Caribbean Region. It emphasizes that the
liberalization of...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 42855Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Stephanou,Constantinos
The objective of this report is to
contribute towards institutional capacity building for
regular monitoring and analysis of poverty, as well as other
indicators of...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 40120Date: November 1, 2007
Cambodia's changing distribution of
income-related outcomes is consistent with the process of
transition from a planned to an open market economy, and the
accompanying...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 39809Date: June 4, 2007
This report is part of the Armenia
Programmatic Poverty Assessment work. It is jointly produced
by the National Statistics Service (NSS) of the Republic of
Armenia and...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 41181Date: June 1, 2007
Building on a retrospective assessment
of the experiences with the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS)
processes in nine conflict-affected countries,
Bosnia-Herzegovina...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 69164Date: June 1, 2007Author:
Wam, Per
Drawing from a variety of data sources
and utilizing a common empirical framework and estimation
strategy, this study identifies patterns and statistical
profiles of...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 40007Date: May 1, 2007Author:
Liwinski, Jacek ;
Paci,Pierella ;
Stoilkova,Maria M. ;
Tiongson,Erwin H. R. ;
Walewski, Mateusz
This report focuses on a central element
of Ethiopia's challenge: the urban labor market. The
headlines, which are detailed in the report, are dramatic,
and include...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 38665Date: March 1, 2007
This report focuses on a central element
of Ethiopia's challenge: the urban labor market. The
headlines, which are detailed in the report, are dramatic,
and include...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 38665Date: March 1, 2007
This paper analyzes the potential
economic impact of changes to the labor laws proposed in
2006. The economic logic behind these reforms is reviewed,
and the conditions...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 69827Date: November 1, 2006
Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor
Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate
poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries
that have been...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 37894Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Besley, Timothy [editor] ;
Cord, Louise J. [editor]
This report on the decentralized service
delivery for the poor is structured in two volumes. Volume
one is a cross-sectoral report, the core report. The first
part includes...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 35692Date: August 1, 2006Author:
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C. ;
Webb,Steven Benjamin
This report on the decentralized service
delivery for the poor is structured in two volumes. Volume
one is a cross-sectoral report, the core report. The first
part includes...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 35692Date: August 1, 2006Author:
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C. ;
Webb,Steven Benjamin
This report examines the implications of
spatial heterogeneity - the uneven distribution of poverty,
growth, and environmental assets - for policy. Its goal is
to inform...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 36793Date: April 1, 2006
By all measures, poverty in Africa as a
whole has increased and deepened. But in fact, Africa
contains a number of undocumented success stories of poverty
reduction....
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 35522Date: March 10, 2006Author:
Fox, Louise M. [editor] ;
Liebenthal, Robert B. [editor]
The papers in this volume examine the
links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan
Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty
to include...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 34944Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Blackden, C. Mark [editor] ;
Wodon, Quentin [editor]
This Poverty report is aimed at
improving the understanding of poverty in Ukraine, and
providing linkages between growth, the evolution of economic
sectors, and poverty....
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 34631Date: December 1, 2005
This report is about balanced economic
development in the Northeast of Thailand. It is about growth
and poverty reduction, cities and villages, enterprises and
workers,...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 35353Date: November 1, 2005
The study focuses on analyzing and
assessing some main features of the situation and the
implementation results of Comprehensive Poverty Reduction
and Growth Strategy...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 69415Date: September 1, 2005
Half of the moderately poor, and one
third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in
Mexico. While cities offer a number of opportunities and
specific challenges...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 32869Date: August 1, 2005
This study is part of the second phase
of a long-term programmatic work on poverty in Mexico, in
three phases being carried out by the Bank at the request of
the Government...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 32867Date: August 1, 2005
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