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Author: Dominique Van de Walle
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: poverty, spending, maps, evidence, poor, transfers, morocco, services
Number of Pages: 45
Published: 2005
eBookDB-ID: GGKEY:DAU4
"In the absence of household level data on participation in public programs, spending allocations and poverty measures across regions of Morocco are used to infer incidence across poor and non-poor groups and to decompose incidence within rural and urban areas separately, as well as to decompose improvements in enrollment rates across poor and non-poor children by gender. Programs appear to be well targeted to the rural poor but not to the urban poor. Substantial benefits accrue to the urban non-poor, while benefits largely bypass the urban poor. The analysis also uncovers evidence of impressi
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Author: Judy L. Baker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: mumbai, case, transport, poverty, urban
Number of Pages: 81
Published: 2005
eBookDB-ID: GGKEY:YLRR
The poor who live in zones 1-3 (central Mumbai) live closer to the non-poor than do poor households in the suburbs. They also live closer to higher-paying jobs for unskilled workers. Workers in these households, on average, commute short distances (less than 3 kilometers), although a non-negligible fraction of them (one-third in zone 2) take public transit to work. It is true that the cost of housing for the poor is higher in central Mumbai than in the suburbs, but the quality of slum housing is at least as good in central Mumbai as in the suburbs. The poor who live in the suburbs of Mumbai, e
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Author: Shekhar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: poor, count, making, bangladesh, counting
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 1999
ISBN-10: 0821344145
ISBN-13: 9780821344149
"Reducing poverty is the central development challenge in Bangladesh. This poverty assessment addresses several basic "counting the poor" questions: Who are the poor? How numerous are they? Where do they live? What are the characteristics of poor households? How should we measure poverty? Has poverty declined? Has inequality increased? In answering these questions this poverty assessment constructs a poverty profile for Bangladesh."Although poverty has declined in Bangladesh in the 1990s, the remaining challenges are enormous. This report is part of a long-term process of capacity building and
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Author: Stephen Graham
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: america, immigrants, poor
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 2007-01-01
ISBN-10: 1429005637
ISBN-13: 9781429005630
An Englishman tries to experience the immigration process the way the poor of Russia and Europe do, traveling from NYC to Chicago (often on foot).
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Author: Stephen Graham
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: america, immigrants, poor
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2007-01-31
ISBN-10: 1429005629
ISBN-13: 9781429005623
An Englishman tries to experience the immigration process the way the poor of Russia and Europe do, traveling from NYC to Chicago (often on foot).
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Author: Unknown
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: poor, performers, dealing, government, management, performance
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 1994-01-01
ISBN-10: 078810313X
ISBN-13: 9780788103131
Discusses how the federal government identifies and deals with employees whose performance has been judged as less than fully successful (i.e. poor performers). Discusses difficulties supervisors face when dealing with certain employees who have been poor performers for lengthy periods. 20 charts and tables.
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