Essays about: "PRO-POOR POLICY"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words PRO-POOR POLICY.
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1. Poverty and Inequality Reduction in the Case of Bolivia: What Has Impacted the Reduction during Evo Morales's Administration Period?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Bolivia has experienced a drastic decline in inequality and poverty since 2000. It coincided with the administrative period of Evo Morales between 2006 and 2019. Hence, it is debated whether poverty reduction was mainly driven by economic growth alongside the commodity boom in the 2000s or by policy implementations during Morales’s presidency. READ MORE
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2. Does Economic Growth reduce Poverty? : An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Poverty and Economic Growth across Low- and Middle-income Countries, illustrated by the Case of Brazil
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaperAbstract : Extreme poverty is a reality facing over a billion people, and a striking contradiction is that huge disparities coexist with a relatively rapid economic growth. This thesis investigates whether economic growth reduces poverty. READ MORE
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3. Indigenizing Evaluation for Development - Civil society and evaluation capacity building in Zambia
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : This thesis explores the interlinking of evaluation and development through an anthropological lens by considering the indigenization process of an evaluation culture, and how evaluation travels across boundaries as an assemblage, similar to many other global phenomena. Central to the thesis is the national evaluation capacity building trend viewed as a two-sided project; first as internal capacity building of institutions and organizations while facilitating a professionalization of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) through national evaluation associations. READ MORE
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4. Sustainable Small Scale Agriculture Transformation Process in Ribáuè District, Nampula Province, Mozambique
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Abstract : Over 80 percent of the population in Africa are smallholder peasant farmers, still predominantly engaged in subsistence farming, distinctive with low yields. The Low African agriculture productivity, according to the World Bank Report (2008) is mainly attributed to African governments as obstruction to development owing to inappropriate government policy interventions, poor governance coupled with the state’s withdrawing from investments in market infrastructure, and support services. READ MORE
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5. Risky Business - large-scale land investments and possibilities of safeguarding the rural poor in Ethiopia
University essay from Göteborgs universitet. Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : In the Global South lifting people out of poverty and ensuring food security is of crucial significance. While many hopes are drawn towards the possibilities of economic growth, rural development and production efficiencies gained by attracting investors and capital to the agricultural sector, such activities also threaten to expose vulnerable rural communities. READ MORE
