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Southeast AsiaFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Agricultural productivity Investments ForeignResearch Brief
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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up: A tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMODThis paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country’s Seventh National Devel...
Economic inequality Poverty Social cash transfersBlog
Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in IndiaImplementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you carry out these programmes successfully?...
Conflict management Development Poverty reductionWorking Paper
The welfare impact of Viet Nam’s national target programme ‘building a new countryside’: A quasi-experimental evaluationWe evaluate the impact on household income of Viet Nam’s national target programme to build a new countryside for the period from 2010 to 2015. The purpose of the programme is to modernize rural Viet Nam...
Poverty reduction Impact evaluation Household incomeWorking Paper
Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus threeSix Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand) defied Gunnar Myrdal’s pessimistic prognosis in his 1968 volume, Asian Drama, regarding their prospects for devel...
Agricultural productivity Investments, Foreign Industrial policyWorking Paper
Building a conservative welfare state in BotswanaBotswana’s welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east)...
Social protection Drought Relief Conservatism