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Development for all 2015-2020: strategy for strengthening disability-inclusive development in Australia’s aid program [PDF]

Disability-inclusive development is a priority for Australia’s international engagement. This strategy – Development for All 2015-2020: Strategy for strengthening disability-inclusive development in Australia’s aid program – responds to the agenda set ...
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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Can local institutions reduce poverty? Rural decentralization in Burkina Faso [PDF]

The authors present evidence that in Burkina Faso, certain high-performing local institutions contribute to equitable economic development. They link reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree of internal village organization.
Donnelly-Roark, Paula, Ouedraogo, Karim, Xiao Ye   +2 more
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Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth [PDF]

What is the effect of increasing life expectancy on economic growth? To answer this question, we exploit the international epidemiological transition, the wave of international health innovations and improvements that began in the 1940s.
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
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SDG 1: No Poverty – Impacts of Social Protection, Tenure Security and Building Resilience on Forests [PDF]

, 2019
Kathleen Lawlor, Erin Sills, Stibniati Atmadja, Liwei Lin, Karnjana Songwathana   +4 more
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Multidimensional measurement of poverty and its spatio-temporal dynamics in China from the perspective of development geography

Journal of Geographical Science, 2021
Yin Dong, G. Jin, Xiangzheng Deng, Feng Wu   +3 more
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Does more for the poor mean less for the poor? The politics of tagging [PDF]

Proposals aimed at improving the welfare of the poor often include indicator targeting, in which non-income characteristics (such as race, gender, or land ownership) that are correlated with income are used to target limited funds to groups likely to ...
Gelbach, Jonah B., Pritchett, Lant H.
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Evaluating the Impact of the Kishan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme on Sustainable Development Goal 1 (No Poverty) in India: A Multivariate Statistical Inquiry

Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management
An initiative by the Government of India, Kishan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme, is targeted towards alleviating rural poverty and filling the credit gap in smallholder farmers' sectors. This research examines how it plays a role in contributing towards the SDG 1-No Poverty using mixed methods, combining primary survey data collected from 500 farmers across ...
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The impact of the introduction of social welfare schemes in Ireland, (1930s-1950s) [PDF]

The relatively few studies of the Irish social welfare system have focused mainly on the forces behind the introduction of social welfare schemes rather than the impact which these schemes had in demographic and labour market terms.
Cousins, Mel
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Behavioral responses to risk in rural China [PDF]

Does risk perpetuate poverty in a credit-constrained economy? Jalan and Ravallion study portfolio and other behavioral responses to measured risk using household panel data for rural China. One-quarter of wealth is held in unproductive liquid forms.
Jalan, Jyotsna, Ravallion, Martin
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Combining extension services with agricultural credit [PDF]

India has nearly 90 million farm households. More than 80 percent of these farmers operate on a small or marginal scale, farming less than two hectares of land. They also usually have one or two buffaloes or cows, reared for milk and dung.
Mahajan, Vijay, Vasumathi, K.
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