inequality
- 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...
- Quantifying social exclusion in Pakistan
- L. Carraro / Oxford Policy Management, 2005
- This briefing note aims to quantify the relationship between social exclusion and poverty in Pakistan. It offers a quantitative description and analysis of social exclusion in Pakistan through a literature review of all forms of exclu...
- Overview of gender and poverty issues in Southern Africa
- B. Lopi / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
- This background paper summarises the main issues around gender and poverty in southern Africa in the context of human development, health, education, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It concludes with key issues to facilit...
- WDR: Equity must complement prosperity
- World Bank, 2005
- The draft version of the World Development Report 2006 analyses the relationship between equity and development. Its key message states that equity is complementary, in some fundamental respects, to the pursuit of long-run prosperity....
- Feminist analysis of the Millennium Development Goals
- B. Neuhold / United Nations [UN] Non-Governmental Liaison Service, 2005
- This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of huma...
- Redistributive effects of labour regulations come from trade union membership, public employment and mandated benefits
- C. Calderón; A. Chong; R. Valdes 2004
- This paper presents evidence on the impact of labour regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labour institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Sila...
- Factors of inequality in Brazil and Peru
- P. Justino; A. Acharya / Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2003
- This paper analyses the multidimensional aspects of inequality by discussing the concept of inequality along three types of processes:economic, social, and political, and three different dimensions: regional, rural/urban and across po...
- What do we know about pro-poor growth?
- J. H. Lopez / World Bank, 2004
- Over the past few years pro-poor growth has become a very popular topic among development practitioners. This despite the fact that in many cases we do not even know what other people mean by pro-poor growth. Is it growth that leads t...
- Shifting the focus of development policy
- R. Sobhan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005
- This paper aims to shift the focus of development policy by relocating poverty eradication processes within the growth sector. It also emphasises the need to empower the poor to participate in the market on equitable terms as the priv...
- Why do some population groups pull ahead, while other equally large groups lag behind?
- B. Milanovic / World Bank, 2004
- This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality. Through an exploration of regional inequality in five m...
- Quantifying social exclusion in Pakistan
- L. Carraro / Oxford Policy Management, 2005
- This briefing note aims to quantify the relationship between social exclusion and poverty in Pakistan. It offers a quantitative description and analysis of social exclusion in Pakistan through a literature review of all forms of exclu...
- Overview of gender and poverty issues in Southern Africa
- B. Lopi / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
- This background paper summarises the main issues around gender and poverty in southern Africa in the context of human development, health, education, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It concludes with key issues to facilit...
- WDR: Equity must complement prosperity
- World Bank, 2005
- The draft version of the World Development Report 2006 analyses the relationship between equity and development. Its key message states that equity is complementary, in some fundamental respects, to the pursuit of long-run prosperity....
- Feminist analysis of the Millennium Development Goals
- B. Neuhold / United Nations [UN] Non-Governmental Liaison Service, 2005
- This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of huma...
- Redistributive effects of labour regulations come from trade union membership, public employment and mandated benefits
- C. Calderón; A. Chong; R. Valdes 2004
- This paper presents evidence on the impact of labour regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labour institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Sila...
- Factors of inequality in Brazil and Peru
- P. Justino; A. Acharya / Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2003
- This paper analyses the multidimensional aspects of inequality by discussing the concept of inequality along three types of processes:economic, social, and political, and three different dimensions: regional, rural/urban and across po...
- What do we know about pro-poor growth?
- J. H. Lopez / World Bank, 2004
- Over the past few years pro-poor growth has become a very popular topic among development practitioners. This despite the fact that in many cases we do not even know what other people mean by pro-poor growth. Is it growth that leads t...
- Shifting the focus of development policy
- R. Sobhan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005
- This paper aims to shift the focus of development policy by relocating poverty eradication processes within the growth sector. It also emphasises the need to empower the poor to participate in the market on equitable terms as the priv...
- Why do some population groups pull ahead, while other equally large groups lag behind?
- B. Milanovic / World Bank, 2004
- This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality. Through an exploration of regional inequality in five m...
- Poverty indicators in South Africa
- H. Bhorat; L. Poswell; P. Naidoo / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
- This survey of poverty in post-apartheid south Africa defines and examines poverty in the South African context. The aim of this report is to provide a picture of asset and services deprivation, economic activity, and health and safet...
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
