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  People
  
  Population 11.92 mln
  
  Population growth 2%
  
  Life expectancy 42 years
  
  Net migration -81,713
  
  Economy
  
  GDP $11.36 bln
  
  - per capita $953
  
  - growth rate 6%
  
  FDI, net inflows $0.98 bln
  
  Infrastructure
  
  Cellphone users 22%
  
  Internet users 4%
  
  High-tech exports 2%
  
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Poverty-oriented planning and reporting for development partnership

star-inwent.org –

Increasing poverty orientation in development partnerships - a tool for partnership practitioners. This document provides a practical and userfriendly tool for poverty-oriented planning and reporting of development partnerships. It has been developed to assist partnership managers to understand the necessity and rationale for analysing poverty impacts and guide them through such an analysis.

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D C on May 17, 2012

Poverty and vulnerability in DRC

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Identify and summarise key national and localised information in Democratic Republic of Congo, on who are the extreme poor and vulnerable, what the causes of poverty are, and how people move in and out of poverty. Include an overview of how poverty is defined, key indicators used and quality of data.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 17, 2012

Reality Check in the Rural and Health sectors in Nicaragua

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Study on three communities: urban, semi urban and rural / This reality check was conducted to consider the perspective on development of the population living in conditions of poverty, particularly related to health care services and support for rural development. It was conducted within the context of the principles of participation, non-discrimination, transparency and responsibility. The reality check surveys the opinions and experiences of poor people and provides information about how more...

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D C on May 17, 2012

Sources of Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria

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The paper contributes to the empirical research on the micro-determinants of income inequality in Southeast European transition countries. The analysis utilizes data from a representative survey of 3,300 Bulgarian households conducted in 2007 and quantifies income differentiation effects related to certain socio- demographic characteristics. Quantile regression analysis reveals positive net effects of the degree of urbanization and the number of employed in the household as well as negative more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Enhacing the IMF’s focus on growth and poverty reduction in Low-income countries

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The report makes clear that the IMF is not, and should not be, a long-term development lender. However, it has committed to enhancing its focus on growth and poverty reduction through the PRGT, and donors have provided concessional funding to the IMF to support the PRGT on this basis: the facilities should therefore be judged on whether they are achieving this goal. The report also makes clear that it is analysing trends resulting from IMF-government agreements, not ascribing “responsibility” more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

We Won’t Accept Hunger Ambassadors’ Toolkit

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This toolkit is for you. It is for anyone who has an interest in helping stop hunger. You can use as little or as much of it as you want to. It also has specially adapted chapters for We Won’t Accept Hunger champions, called ‘ambassadors’, to help them design campaign actions or train other people in campaigning techniques. Again, it is important to underline that you need use only the parts of this toolkit that you are comfortable with.Hunger is the world’s biggest killer but it can be more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

A comparison of model-based and design based impact evaluations of interventions in developing countries

okonomi.foi.dk –

Alongside the call for more impact evaluations of development interventions there is an ongoing debate about evaluation designs and more generally about what constitutes rigorous quantitative evidence of causal impact. The core of the discussion centers on the role and design of social experiments as several researchers argue that only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can deliver rigorous proof of causal effects of interventions.One argument for RCTs is the theoretical purity of the more...

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D C on May 08, 2012

Protecting the Poor: A microinsurance compendium

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Protecting the Poor: A microinsurance compendium, volume II , is a unique collection of recent practices and emerging ideas in microinsurance. It covers the numerous innovations that have emerged in recent years to meet the challenges of providing insurance to low-income people, from new products and delivery channels to consumer education tools, while examining institutional changes in regulations, providers and schemes. As the microinsurance community dramatically evolves and millions more more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 14, 2012

Fast Facts: Public-Private Partnerships for Service Delivery

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Effective delivery of basic services, particularly to the poor, is a key to success in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). UNDP's programme Public-Private Partnerships for Service Delivery (PPPSD) supports developing countries in their efforts to create a conducive environment for pro-poor PPPs which increase access to basic services. By promoting inclusive partnerships between local government and various non- state actors including businesses, community groups, NGOs, more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 15, 2012

Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction

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Environmental conditions are likely to have an effect on people’s sense of life satisfaction, both directly and indirectly. In recent years there has been a burgeoning literature assessing the relationship between measures of environmental quality and subjective well-being. This type of studies can be a useful input into the setting of policy priorities. In this paper, the effects of individual and contextual factors on satisfaction with environmental quality and life satisfaction are assessed, more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 13, 2012

2011 Failure report: Engineers without borders

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Read as 14 members of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada, from every level of the organization, share their stories with humility, self-reflection and dedication to learning - fundamental components of EWB’s culture and values. The role of failure within EWB’s culture continues to evolve. Some authors chose to write about program- and team-level failures; some involved partners and other stakeholders in assessing and writing their stories and learnings.Learning from failure is a ubiquitous more...

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D C on April 23, 2012

Too poor to care? The Salience of Aids in Africa

afrobarometer.org –

Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world that is most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. Yet, surveys of attitudes to AIDS across African countries show that most people do not attach great importance to the issue. Given the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS, this appears paradoxical. This paper argues that the salience of AIDS is low in Africa because many people are too poor to consider the disease important. This means that AIDS is crowded out by other issues – such as poverty, hunger, and more...

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D C on May 08, 2012

Inclusive Wealth Report

ihdp.unu.edu –

There have been recent advances in addressing the weaknesses in contemporary measures of welfare that are used to judge the progress and regress of nations. In this realm, a prominent indicator of well-being is ‘wealth’. The wealth indicator relies on the stocks of and ecosystem services, etc.); Produced Capital (machinery, buildings, etc); Human Capital (education, health, skills, etc.); and Social Capital (institutions, networks among people, etc.).While considerable progress has been made more...

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D C on May 02, 2012

Poverty and Inequality 2011: Latin America Report

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Latin America Report’ highlights the causes of extreme inequality, territorial achievement gaps and lack of opportunities in Latin America’s rural sector, analysing socio-economic indicators in health, education, economic dynamism and employment, income and poverty, citizen security, and gender equality from 10 Latin American countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. The report was produced by the RIMISP - Latin American more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 14, 2012

Writing terms of reference (TOR) for an evaluation: A how-to guide

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The terms of reference (ToR) document defines all aspects of how a consultant or a team will conduct an evaluation. It defines the objectives and the scope of the evaluation, outlines the responsibilities of the consultant or team, and provides a clear description of the resources available to conduct the study. Developing an accurate and well-specified ToR is a critical step in managing a high-quality evaluation. The evaluation ToR document serves as the basis for a contractual arrangement more...

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D C on March 15, 2012

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