Essays about: "Poverty Reduction meaning"

Found 5 essays containing the words Poverty Reduction meaning.

  1. 1. Ready to Respond to Freddy? Shock-Responsive Social Protection for Nutrition in Malawi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Cecilia Pampararo; [2023]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the increasing pace and intensity of climate-related shocks have driven the emergence of international interest around the role of national social protection systems for shock-responsiveness. An increasing number of already vulnerable people is in need of humanitarian assistance, risking to fall into poverty and malnutrition. READ MORE

  2. 2. Can the Guarantee Instrument Fight Poverty? : A Minor Field Study in the Morogoro Region in Tanzania

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Linnéa Prytz; Ida Norman; [2019]
    Keywords : Guarantee instrument; Financial access; Productivity; Welfare; Tanzania; Agriculture;

    Abstract : The role of access to finance for economic development has received extensive attention recently, which has brought the issue to the top of the policy agenda. The growing attention has resulted in several public policy initiatives to encourage access to financial services, especially in low-income countries where credit constraints are severe. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Poverty Effect of The Debt-Relief under (HIPC) Initiative: Assessing aggregate impact of the debt-relief On Poverty-reduction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Anna Khabarova; [2011]
    Keywords : HIPC initiative; debt- relief; resource-mechanism; poverty-reduction; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The main objective of this paper is to empirically assess debt-relief as a mechanism of aggregate poverty reduction in severely indebted and middle-income countries. The empirical analysis focuses on the channels connecting growth to investment and social spending that are believed to fuel the resource development gap of the heavily indebted countries that have suffered from the debt crisis. READ MORE

  4. 4. Getting one step ahead in life. A study of an adult literacy programme in Northern Malawi

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan

    Author : Hanna Appelquist; Therése Björkman; [2010]
    Keywords : literacy; development; malawi; poverty reduction; MFS;

    Abstract : The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to study the connection between literacy and development and poverty reduction in a third world country. The study is based on Mothers’ Union Literacy and Development Programme (MULDP) in Malawi, where it examines what difference literacy makes in the learners of MULDPs lives and what meaning literacy has for them. READ MORE

  5. 5. Political Conditionality in Swedish Aid (!?)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Martina Hibell; [2006]
    Keywords : Democracy; Development Assistance; Political Conditionality; Sida; Swedish Aid; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Political conditionality is when certain conditions concerning democracy, the respect for human and civil rights, and the rule of law are to be met by the recipient country either as a prerequisite for, or for keeping up aid. It may seem impossible to ethically justify aid without these kinds of conditions, but they can bring about severe complications that have to be taken into consideration in foreign bilateral aid policy. READ MORE