Ce document fait partie d’une série de documents techniques produits par l’Unité régionale du projet Dimensions sociales de l’ajustement (DSA) pour fournir des directives sur la mesure et l’analyse des...
Cette étude retrace, analyse et explique les articulations de base de la civilisation agro-pastorale sahélienne. Son objectif est de fournir une description générale et une interprétation du système agro-pastoral...
This paper suggests that there is a broad array of opportunities available to government agencies and donors with limited resources to allocate to programs addressing malnutrition which offer the opportunity...
This document is one of a series of technical documents produced by the regional unit of the Social Dimensions of Adjustment (SDA) project to provide guidelines on the measurement and analysis of the socioeconomic...
This paper looks at the pattern of public expenditure in Africa during the adjustment decade, paying particular attention to the social sectors. It concludes that the poverty focus and the poverty reduction...
This paper uses recent survey data to investigate gender differences in education and labor market participation. The authors found that the two are inter-linked. Gender related differences in education...
The Social Dimensions of Adjustment (SDA) survey instruments provide detailed information on the living conditions of households, information which is relevant to an evaluation of the microeconomic impacts...
Pendant les années 80, un grand nombre de pays en développement ont entamé un processus explicite d’ajustement structurel. Le besoin d’ajustement est imputable à la combinaison des chocs externes et internes...
The object of this paper is to establish a baseline poverty profile for Ghana using the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The profile does speak, in general terms, to current policy concerns in Ghana. It...
A crucial issue in the design of household budget surveys is the length of the recall period for recalling transactions. It is known that the longer the recall period the greater the likely recall error...
This report presents data which indicate that levels of malnutrition in Ghana remain relatively high compared to other African countries. The nutritional status of children is nevertheless improved compared...
In order to explore the causes of malnutrition, this paper estimates reduced-form nutritional status functions that include a linear combination of independent variables, which explain the household's...
During the 1980s, many developing countries have entered into an explicit process of structural adjustment. The need for such adjustment has been brought about through combinations of external and internal...