inequality
- DFID strategies for combating social exclusion
- Department for International Development, UK, 2005
- Social exclusion deprives people of choices and opportunities to escape from poverty and denies them a voice to claim their rights. This policy paper describes how DFID intends to build upon the work it has undertaken tackling social ...
- Will the MDGs ever be achieved?: poverty from a gender perspective
- Social Watch, 2005
- This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and national reports from over 50 countrie...
- The role of human rights in defining a new anti-poverty agenda
- P. Townsend / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
- The first millenium development goal - to halve global poverty by 2015 - has become an unlikely prospect. If poverty is to be significantly reduced, its terms of definition, measurement, explanation and resolution need to be re-examin...
- Development efforts to be focused on reducing inequality
- K. Watkins / Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005
- Will the MDG targets be met if current development trends continue? Not according to the 2005 Human Development Report (HDR), which cites inequality as the issue of prime concern in the fight against poverty. The report argues that ec...
- Redistribution is necessary to address inequality
- R. Fuentes / Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005
- With pervasive inequalities in growth throughout the developing world, this paper argues that a redistribution process is required to address this problem. The paper shows that in middle income countries a small redistribution can hav...
- Recommendations for reduced vulnerability of the poor in Zambia
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005
- This discussion paper documents poverty along a number of dimensions, including material deprivation, human deprivation, vulnerability, destitution, and social stigmatisation. It argues that there must be progress in all these areas i...
- Relationship between inequality and migration
- R. Black; C. Natali; J. Skinner / World Bank, 2005
- This paper focuses on case studies across Central America, Eastern Europe, West Africa and South Asia and demonstrates how the mutual causality between migration and inequality varies both between and within regions. It emphasises the...
- How do religious movements influence the anti-poverty agenda?
- V. Pinglé / World Bank, 2005
- This theoretical paper, based on existing research, assesses the influence that religious movements have on the development process. The concept of identity politics is used to interpret the motivation for and principles of these move...
- Is economic growth all that is required to reduce absolute income poverty?
- M. Ravallion / World Bank, 2005
- This paper takes up an issue with the view that "the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth." The authors argue that there are a number of ways in which inequality and its evo...
- How does differential access to productive assets affect inequalities in agricultural outcomes?
- R. Sabates-Wheeler / World Bank, 2005
- This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate a...
- Will the MDGs ever be achieved?: poverty from a gender perspective
- Social Watch, 2005
- This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and national reports from over 50 countrie...
- The role of human rights in defining a new anti-poverty agenda
- P. Townsend / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
- The first millenium development goal - to halve global poverty by 2015 - has become an unlikely prospect. If poverty is to be significantly reduced, its terms of definition, measurement, explanation and resolution need to be re-examin...
- Development efforts to be focused on reducing inequality
- K. Watkins / Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005
- Will the MDG targets be met if current development trends continue? Not according to the 2005 Human Development Report (HDR), which cites inequality as the issue of prime concern in the fight against poverty. The report argues that ec...
- Redistribution is necessary to address inequality
- R. Fuentes / Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005
- With pervasive inequalities in growth throughout the developing world, this paper argues that a redistribution process is required to address this problem. The paper shows that in middle income countries a small redistribution can hav...
- Recommendations for reduced vulnerability of the poor in Zambia
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005
- This discussion paper documents poverty along a number of dimensions, including material deprivation, human deprivation, vulnerability, destitution, and social stigmatisation. It argues that there must be progress in all these areas i...
- Relationship between inequality and migration
- R. Black; C. Natali; J. Skinner / World Bank, 2005
- This paper focuses on case studies across Central America, Eastern Europe, West Africa and South Asia and demonstrates how the mutual causality between migration and inequality varies both between and within regions. It emphasises the...
- How do religious movements influence the anti-poverty agenda?
- V. Pinglé / World Bank, 2005
- This theoretical paper, based on existing research, assesses the influence that religious movements have on the development process. The concept of identity politics is used to interpret the motivation for and principles of these move...
- Is economic growth all that is required to reduce absolute income poverty?
- M. Ravallion / World Bank, 2005
- This paper takes up an issue with the view that "the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth." The authors argue that there are a number of ways in which inequality and its evo...
- How does differential access to productive assets affect inequalities in agricultural outcomes?
- R. Sabates-Wheeler / World Bank, 2005
- This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate a...
- How gender is being factored into the South African budget, 2005
- International Budget Partnership, 2005
- This paper examines gender equity within the 2005 South African budget. The authors highlight that women and girls are often most vulnerable to conditions like HIV/AIDS and poverty, but that programmes to address these conditions will...
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
