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  • Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?

    A Human Opportunity Report for Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Andrew Dabalen, Ambar Narayan, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi, Alejandro Hoyos Suarez, Ana Abras, Sailesh Tiwari ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Poverty
    Can African children achieve their full potential? This report analyzes opportunities for children in Sub-Saharan Africa, revealing key factors for their success.Do African Children Have an Equal Chance? examines how access to education, healthcare, and basic services has changed over the past decade in 20 African nations. It uncovers critical insights into poverty reduction and economic growth ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poverty in a Rising Africa

    by Kathleen Beegle, Luc Christiaensen, Andrew Dabalen, Isis Gaddis ...
    Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on "Africa rising" and an "African 21st century." Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or not they did, remains unclear given the poor quality of the data, the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pathways to Prosperity in Rural Malawi

    by Andrew Dabalen, Alejandro de la Fuente, Aparajita Goyal, Wendy Karamba, Nga Thi Viet Nguyen, Tomomi Tanaka ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Poverty
    By most accounts, rural Malawi has lacked dynamism in the past decade. Growth has been mostly volatile, in large part due to unstable macroeconomic fundamentals evidenced by high inflation, fiscal deficits, and interest rates. When rapid economic growth has materialized, the gains have not always reached the poorest. Poverty remains high and the rural poor face significant challenges in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poverty in a Rising Africa

    by Kathleen Beegle, Luc Christiaensen, Andrew Dabalen, Gaddis ...
    Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising†? and an “African 21st century.†? Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or not they did, remains unclear given the poor quality of the data, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Handbook of Agricultural Economics

    Edited by Prabhu Pingali, Robert E. Evenson ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbook of Agricultural Economics
    Advances in agriculture offer many countries the best and only chance of reducing poverty. Yet economic growth and population increases are driving higher demand for food and rising real prices. What solutions have successfully promoted agriculture? This volume examines national and international food agriculture policies and how they enhance agricultural productivity growth. It provides unique ... Read more

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  • The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales

    by Prof. Lorenzo Forni ...
    Series series Comparative Political Economy
    This lively and provocative look at the tension between economics and politics examines why so many mistakes in economic policy-making are made for political reasons and ignore the economic truths.Using short-term economic gains to ensure electoral success, argues Lorenzo Forni, inevitably spells macroeconomic disaster. Using the state budget, trade policy and monetary policy to prop up labour ... Read more

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  • Achieving Zero Hunger: The Critical Role of Investments in Social Protection and Agriculture. Second Edition

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This paper provides estimates of investment costs, both public and private, required to eliminate chronic dietary energy deficits, or to achieve zero hunger by 2030. This target is consistent with achieving both Sustainable Development Goal 2, to eliminate hunger by 2030, and Sustainable Development Goal 1, to eradicate poverty. The study adopts a reference baseline scenario, reflecting a ... Read more

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  • Africa At A Turning Point?: Growth, Aid, And And External Shocks

    by Go Delfin Sia; Page John ...
    Since the mid-1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced an acceleration of economic growth that has produced rising incomes and faster human development. However, this growth contrasts with the continent's experience between 1975 and 1995, when it largely missed out on two decades of economic progress. This disparity between Africa's current experience and its history raises questions about the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Currency Conflict and Trade Policy

    A New Strategy for the United States

    by C. Fred Bergsten, Joseph Gagnon ...
    Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, for example, China's currency manipulation practices were so flagrant that they produced a ... Read more

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  • Poverty And The Wto: Impacts Of The Doha Development Agenda

    by L. Alan Winters Thomas W. Hertel ...
    Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centerpiece of the Doha Development Agenda currently being negotiated under the auspices of the WTO. Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts of such an agreement. Some are convinced it will increase poverty, while others are equally convinced that it will lead to poverty reduction. This book brings the best scientific methods to bear on this ... Read more

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  • Post-Stabilization Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Mozambique

    by Shanaka Peiris, Jean Mr. Clément ...
    Mozambique is an economic success story in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Its remarkable achievements offer valuable lessons to other low-income countries in a post-stabilization economic phase, including how they can efficiently manage a scaling up of foreign aid aimed at poverty reduction. Of special interest to other sub-Saharan countries are the book's discussions of Mozambique's progress toward ... Read more

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