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CEEG Seminar: Buying security with charityWhat is the role of security concerns of Western countries in conditioning Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Africa? How have the dynamics of relations between donors and sub-Saharan countries evolved since 1961 when ODA was first defined?...
Journal Article
Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysisTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financi...
Rural financial intermediation Poverty reduction WelfarePolicy Brief
Book Chapter
The state of knowledge about social mobility in the developing worldFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Inequality IncomeResearch Brief
Working Paper
Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in ThailandBetween 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined...
Inclusive growth Inequality Poverty reductionWorking Paper
Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in ChinaIn this paper, we analyse the relationship between China’s structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth...
Inequality Education MigrationWorking Paper
Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysisThe financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to...
Rural financial intermediation Poverty reduction WelfareBook Chapter
Building a conservative welfare state in BotswanaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Social protection Drought relief ConservatismBook Chapter
Southeast AsiaFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Agricultural productivity Investments Industrial policyResearch Brief
Working Paper
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 Vietnam’s national target programme ‘building a new countryside’: A quasi-experimental evaluationWe evaluate the impact on household income of Vietnam’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 Vietnam...
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 Foreign investments 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