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Improving the targeting of social programs in Ghana / edited by Quentin Wodon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington D.C. : World Bank, [2012]Copyright date: copyright 2012Description: x, 163 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780821395936
  • 0821395939
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV41 .I4277 2012
Contents:
Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Improving targeting in Ghana: a brief overview -- Synthesis of the study -- How well targeted are Ghana's social programs? -- Analysis by social program -- Principles of targeting : a brief review -- Poverty map -- Food insecurity map -- Geographic impact of higher food prices -- School uniforms -- Conditional cash transfers for education -- Tax cuts for rice and fertilizer subsidies -- Electricity subsidies -- Benefit incidence of public education spending -- School lunches -- National health insurance scheme -- Livelihood empowerment against poverty -- National youth employment program -- Labor intensive public works -- References -- List of tables.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة HV41 .I4277 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط 30010011108718
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة HV41 .I4277 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 30010011130561

Includes bibliographical references (pages159-163) and index.

Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Improving targeting in Ghana: a brief overview -- Synthesis of the study -- How well targeted are Ghana's social programs? -- Analysis by social program -- Principles of targeting : a brief review -- Poverty map -- Food insecurity map -- Geographic impact of higher food prices -- School uniforms -- Conditional cash transfers for education -- Tax cuts for rice and fertilizer subsidies -- Electricity subsidies -- Benefit incidence of public education spending -- School lunches -- National health insurance scheme -- Livelihood empowerment against poverty -- National youth employment program -- Labor intensive public works -- References -- List of tables.

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