Lessons from Uganda on Strategies to Fight Poverty

Countries receiving debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative will be among the first to benefit from the new World Bank -- International Monetary Fund approach to strengthening the impact on poverty of concessional assistance in low-income countries. The new approach features...

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Main Authors:	Mackinnon, John, Reinikka, Ritva
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	absolute poverty absolute terms adjustment policies agricultural exports agricultural extension agricultural production agricultural trade assessing poverty budgetary commitments capital goods civic education civil society clinics commercial banks commodities CPI debt debt relief development indicators Development Research distributional pattern donor agencies donor community economic analysis economic consequences economic growth economic reform economic reforms economic sectors economic structure Economics employment equilibrium Eradication Action Plan exchange rate expenditure data export taxes financial assets financial liberalization financial services fiscal policies fish foreign exchange gender inequality Gini coefficient growth rate growth rates health services Health Survey health workers high growth high inflation home-produced food household behavior household income household level household survey human development Import liberalization income countries income growth income taxes Infant mortality inflation input use institutional reforms labor market Life expectancy living standards Local people long-term trends low-income countries macro stability macroeconomic policies macroeconomic policy macroeconomic stability market power mean consumption mean incomes medical services nongovernmental organizations participatory approach participatory methods participatory poverty participatory poverty assessment per capita income policy changes policy objective policy research political stability poor community poor countries poor households poor people Poverty Eradication Poverty Eradication Action Plan poverty impact poverty issues poverty line poverty profile poverty reduction poverty reduction strategies Poverty Reduction Strategy poverty trends price changes primary education private consumption producers productive assets productivity public action public enterprises public expenditure Public expenditures Public health Public health services public information public policies public policy public sector public sector management public service public service delivery public services public spending quantitative analysis real exchange rate real terms reducing poverty reform program representative sample rural areas rural households sampling method savings service delivery Social Indicators social sectors structural adjustment Tax reform tax regime tax system taxation tertiary education trade liberalization Trade policy transport infrastructure urban areas urban ones water supply youth access to credit fiscal policy primary health care education sector transport legal services land rights land titles
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