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  1. Library Resource
    Human capital accumulation, migration, and the transition from urban poverty cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2009
    Global

    This paper examines determinants and consequences of migration from urban slums using panel data from two Nairobi slums. We analyze migration behavior of both adults and children. First, empirical analysis of labor market dynamics shows that schooling is complementary with experience (measured by duration in Nairobi) in slums jointly increasing the probability of migration to non-slum urban areas, and that labor-market returns to schooling and experience are low within slums.

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2016
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper assesses the relation between
    access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa.
    Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades
    (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly
    improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant
    positive association between increased market accessibility
    and local cropland expansion. It also finds that cropland
    expansion, in turn, is associated with a small but

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2016
    Nigeria

    Over the last 20 years, poor rural
    farmers in Nigeria have seen the benefits of community
    organization as a tool for local economic development under
    the National Fadama Development Project series. They have
    witnessed improvements in rural areas that have embraced a
    more inclusive and participatory model of local economic
    decision making. Many communities have come together under
    the umbrella of new institutional arrangements for

  4. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Bolivia

    This note is a summary of a report that
    considers urban areas as the complement to rural areas that
    will allow the Plurinational State of Bolivia to achieve the
    goals set forth in its Patriotic Agenda for the Bicentennial
    2025. The report uses data available at the national level
    from censuses and household surveys from the National
    Statistics Institute (INE) and the Social and Economic
    Policy Analysis Unit of the Ministry of Development Planning

  5. Library Resource
    Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor : Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World cover image
    Reports & Research
    April, 2012
    Global

    Poor people living in slums are at
    particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change
    and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable land
    within cities, typically areas deemed undesirable by others
    and thus affordable. This study analyzes the key challenges
    facing the urban poor, given the risks associated with
    climate change and disasters, particularly with regard to
    the delivery of basic services, and identifies strategies

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This book suggests how that exploration
    should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a
    solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and
    reasonable in cost can then be put into practice. Long the
    ideal of many scholars and observers of urban problems, such
    a system may now be close to realization. In this book,
    examples of Latin American cities are used as case studies.
    As argued in the first chapter, there are good reasons to

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor
    Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate
    poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries
    that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor
    growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia,
    Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. It integrates growth analytics
    with the microanalysis of household data to determine how
    country policies and conditions interact to reduce poverty

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    A decade and a half of relative peace and political stability, broad economic reforms, and far-reaching political decentralization have brought Ethiopia back from one of its lowest levels of income per capita to one of its highest levels over the past forty years. At the same time, Gross Domestic Product per capita today is still only slightly above the levels reached in the early 1970 underscoring the deep-rooted and complex nature of poverty in Ethiopia.

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Afghanistan

    This report analyzes some key aspects of
    food security, namely production, trade, markets and food
    aid at the national level, and consumption at the household
    level. In doing so it aspires to make a contribution to the
    on-going work in Afghanistan regarding the attainment of the
    poverty and hunger Millennium Development Goal. The major
    findings of the report can be summarized as follows: Food
    security (at the national level) does not necessarily

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    This report examines poverty issues in the Kyrgyz Republic, focusing on three areas. First, it provides a summary of the trends in poverty over the period 2000-2003 by drawing upon comparable data from the Household Budget Surveys from those years. Second, based upon the Kyrgyz Integrated Household Survey (KIHS ) it presents the new estimates of absolute and extreme poverty by applying updated poverty analysis methodology.

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