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Poorly implemented energy subsidies are economically costly to taxpayers and damage the environment. This report aims at providing the emerging lessons form a representative sample of case studies in 20 developing countries that could help policy makers to address implementation challenges, including overcoming political economy and affordability constraints. The sample has selected on the basis of a number of criteria, including the country's level of development (and consumption), developing country region, energy security and the fuel it subsidies (petroleum fuel, electricity, natural gas).

Energy consumption -- Developing countries. --- Energy policy -- Developing countries. --- Poor --Energy assistance -- Developing countries. --- Energy consumption --- Poor --- Energy policy --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Energy assistance --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Economic conditions --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty

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What causes a government to invest - or not invest - in poor citizens, especially mass education? In this book, Stephen Kosack focuses on three radically different developing countries whose developmental trajectories bear little resemblance to each other and offers an elegant and pragmatic answer to this question.

Education and state --- Education --- Poor --- Economic aspects --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Economic conditions --- Government policy

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Between the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to trace developments across that time span, focuses on three types of assistance: licensed begging and the solicitation of charitable alms; hospitals and almshouses for the bedridden and elderly; and the aid given by parishes. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief. The study highlights the creativity of local people in responding to poverty, cooperation between national levels of government, the problems of fraud and negligence, and mounting concern with proper supervision and accounting. This ground-breaking work challenges existing accounts of the Poor Laws, showing that they addressed problems with forms of aid already in use rather than creating a new system of relief.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1300-1399 --- 364 <09> --- Geschiedenis van de maatschappelijke voorzorg en bijstand --- 364 <09> Geschiedenis van de maatschappelijke voorzorg en bijstand --- Poor --- Poverty --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Services for&delete& --- History --- Economic conditions --- England --- Social conditions --- Services for --- History. --- Arts and Humanities

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What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope, present

Financial crises -- Social aspects. --- Poor --- Cost and standard of living --- Financial crises --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Social aspects --- Poor. --- Cost and standard of living. --- Social aspects. --- Global Economic Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Subprime Mortgage Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Comfort, Standard of --- Cost of living --- Food, Cost of --- Household expenses --- Living, Cost of --- Living, Standard of --- Standard of living --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Economic conditions --- Crises --- Consumption (Economics) --- Home economics --- Households --- Quality of life --- Wealth --- Luxury --- Prices --- Purchasing power --- Wages --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Surveys

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Ghana has pursued several programs to accelerate the growth of the economy. In 1995, the government presented “Ghana: Vision 2020,” aimed at making Ghana a middle-income country in 25 years. Vision 2020 focused on human development, economic growth, rural development, urban development, infrastructure development, and an enabling environment. It was followed by the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy. One of the main challenges to economic growth is the unemployment problem. The recent discoveries of oil and gas create tremendous opportunities for stimulating national development.

Poverty --- Poor --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Economic conditions --- Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Ghana --- Economic policy. --- E-books --- Infrastructure --- Macroeconomics --- Environmental Economics --- Natural Resources --- Education: General --- Environmental Economics: General --- Health: General --- Investment --- Capital --- Intangible Capital --- Capacity --- Labor Economics: General --- Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics --- Environmental and Ecological Economics: General --- Education --- Environmental economics --- Health economics --- Labour --- income economics --- Environmental management --- Environment --- Health --- Labor --- National accounts --- Natural resources --- Environmental sciences --- Saving and investment --- Labor economics