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  "title": "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Implications for Public Policy",
  "publication": "Economic Issues, March 14, 2001",
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  "summary": "Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsidies, and transfer of technology.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Author: Mahmood Hasan Khan\n- Publication date: March 14, 2001\n- Format: Economic Issues No. 2001/003\n- Summary: Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsidies, and transfer of technology. Identifies key elements for drafting a policy to reduce rural poverty."
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      "heading": "Policy framework and recommended interventions",
      "content": "- Land reform\n- Public works programs\n- Access to credit\n- Physical and social infrastructure\n- Subsidies\n- Transfer of technology"
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      "heading": "Key elements for drafting a policy to reduce rural poverty",
      "content": "- Identification of causes of poverty in rural areas\n- Design of poverty-mitigating strategies and poverty-creating process countermeasures\n- Integration of infrastructure, education, labor, and national accounts considerations into policy design\n- Consideration of policy bias and differential impacts across groups"
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    {
      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Education, Infrastructure, Labor, National accounts, Poverty, Poverty reduction\n- Keywords: EI, Infrastructure, policy, Policy bias, poverty difference, Poverty reduction, poverty-creating process, poverty-mitigating strategy, rural poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/economic-issues/issues/2016/12/30/rural-poverty-in-developing-countries-implications-for-public-policy-14783"
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    "Published: March 14, 2001",
    "Series: Economic Issues",
    "Volume: 2001",
    "Issue: 003",
    "Pages: 18",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060067.051",
    "Stock No: EIIEA026",
    "ISBN: 9781589060067",
    "ISSN: 1020-5098",
    "Author: Mahmood Hasan Khan",
    "Publication date: March 14, 2001",
    "Format: Economic Issues No. 2001/003",
    "Summary: Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsidies, and transfer of technology. Identifies key elements for drafting a policy to reduce rural poverty.",
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    "Integration of infrastructure, education, labor, and national accounts considerations into policy design",
    "Consideration of policy bias and differential impacts across groups",
    "Subject: Education, Infrastructure, Labor, National accounts, Poverty, Poverty reduction",
    "Keywords: EI, Infrastructure, policy, Policy bias, poverty difference, Poverty reduction, poverty-creating process, poverty-mitigating strategy, rural poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa"
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