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If subsidies on fuel, electricity, and agricultural inputs were eliminated without any compensatory mechanism, such as an increase in the Social Cash Transfer program's coverage and benefit levels, the impact of fiscal policy on poverty would likely be muted. In 2015, Zambia exempted over 80 ...
According to her, relying on cooperating partners to finance development needed to come to an end, adding that the government was strengthening compliance and broadening the tax base in order to increase domestic revenue. She noted that the current tax compliance levels of below 60 percent of the...
Minister of National Development Planning Alexander Chiteme said the implementation of the Zambia Integrated Forest Landscape Project will contribute to reduction of high poverty levels in the eastern part of the country through sustainable utilization and management of natural resources. The project is a...
For all its huge natural and human resource endowments, Zambia is suffering from intolerably high levels of both rural and urban poverty. The authors explore the causes of poverty, which include government policy bias against agriculture, the negative impact of World Bank and IMF conditionality, th...
Notes:∗∗∗, ∗∗, and ∗ refer to statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively; the values in parentheses denote the t-statistics. Credit: Book authors. Technological innovation only significantly alleviates poverty in terms of energy cleanliness andaffordability...
Poverty among women in Ghana is not limited to only those in the slums but also those rural communities. However, the different dynamics in the two communities accounts for a worse situation experienced by those in the slums. Although women in rural Ghana also face high levels of poverty, ...
Tourism and poverty alleviation in Fiji: comparing the impacts of small- and large-scale tourism enterprises This paper explores the pro-poor tourism literature's proposition that businesses “at all levels and scales of operation” can contribute to poverty allev... RS&M Russell - 《Journal of...
In addition, we controlled for travel time to the nearest densely populated area, percentage of area covered by water, and average slope. Finally, we also controlled for the following variables collected by the DHS at the household level, which may influence poverty levels: age of the household...
Today, social grants in some form or another are paid to 46% of South Africans.24 But as we saw when examining poverty levels in different African coun- tries, even with this hugely expensive and expansive grant system, more than half of South Africans still live in extreme poverty (using...