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  1. Library Resource

    A mixed-methods assessment in Mukono County, Uganda

    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Uganda

    In a first study of this kind, International Justice Mission has used mixed methods assessment to portray the depth of widow and orphan property grabbing problem and lack of justice system response in Mukono County, Uganda. The report demonstrates that nearly a third of widows have experienced land grabbing with virtually no criminal justice system response.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    Most efforts to trace the effects of
    income inequality on growth have focused on redistribution.
    However, empirical investigation has not substantiated
    either the positive association of income inequality with
    redistribution or the negative association of redistribution
    with economic growth. The authors analyze the effects of
    inequality in the broader context of social polarization.
    They argue that social polarization, whether rooted in

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    The performance of the East Asian
    transition economies in export and income growth has been
    strikingly better than that of countries in Eastern Europe
    and the former Soviet Union. The East Asian economies have
    achieved remarkably high growth rates in outputs and exports
    without the often large declines in output and exports
    observed in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. East
    Asian reformers have successfully made many of the parallel

  4. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Nicaragua

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
    and the World Bank introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy
    Paper (PRSP) process in 1999 to strengthen the poverty
    alleviation focus of their assistance to low-income
    countries. This report reviews Nicaragua s experience with
    the PRSP process, focusing on the effectiveness of IMF and
    World Bank support to the process and the extent to which
    the two institutions lending and non-lending activities in

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    The process by which different
    ecological conditions and historical trajectories interacted
    to create different social and cultural systems resulted in
    major differences in economic development performance within
    Southeast Asia. In the late 19th century, Indonesia, the
    Philippines, and Thailand commonly experienced
    vent-for-surplus development through exploitation of unused
    lands. Nevertheless, different agrarian structures were

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2014

    Russia and other countries in the
    commonwealth of independent states that have implemented
    voucher privatization programs have to account for the
    puzzling behavior of insiders manager-owners-who, in
    stripping assets from the firms they own, appear to be
    stealing from one pocket to fill the other. This article
    suggests that asset stripping and the absence of
    restructuring result from interactions between insiders and

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    About 50 countries have prepared interim
    and full Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). In this
    context, this paper examines Millennium Development Goal
    (MDG)7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability, its targets
    and indicators, and responds to three questions: To what
    extent do PRSPs define and adopt targets and indicators that
    align with those of MDG7? To what extent do the available
    data allow tracking of progress with respect to MDG7? When

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    The aim of this study is to improve
    understanding of how biological resource conservation
    concerns can be better incorporated into projects and
    programs that primarily address the objective of rural
    development rather than environmental conservation. A
    multi-disciplinary study team was assembled and six
    background papers produced, along with the main overview
    paper. The six papers were on: 1) measuring biodiversity,

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Vietnam

    Are the household characteristics that
    are good for transition to a more diversified
    market-oriented development process in Vietnam also
    important for reducing poverty? Or are there tradeoffs? The
    determinants of both poverty incidence and participation in
    rural off-farm activities are modeled as functions of
    household and community characteristics using comprehensive
    national household surveys for 1993 and 1998. Despite some

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    The authors analyze how property rights
    affect the allocation of firms' available resources
    among different types of assets. In particular, they
    investigate empirically for a large number of countries
    whether firms in environments with more secure property
    rights allocate available resources more toward intangible
    assets and consequentially grow faster. The authors find
    that improved asset allocation due to better property rights

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