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- Azerbaijan's MDG record
- ( United Nations Development Group , 2005)
- Azerbaijan launched the ”State Programme on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development” (SPPRED) in 2003 in order to reduce poverty and improve living standards of its citizens. The SPPRED...
- Statistical principles for evidence based policy recommendations and the production of human development reports
- ( J. Puri;A. Gaye;S. Kurukulasuriya / Human Development Report Office, UNDP , 2007)
- The human development approach represents a simple yet powerful idea: putting people at the centre of development. It is about enlarging people’s choices and freedoms to live a long and healthy ...
Do protected areas reduce poverty?
- ( N. Dudley;S. Mansourian;S. Stolton / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2008)
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This report looks at the role of protected areas in poverty reduction, focusing primarily on the poorest countries and on poor communities within those countries. The publication seeks to specifica...
What can poor people teach us about development?: lessons from PPAs in India
- ( S. Viswanathan;R. Srivastava / Asian Development Bank , 2007)
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Since the late 1990s, policy makers, donors, NGOs and researchers have become increasingly interested in participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) and participatory evaluation of development initiat...
- Using the household economy approach in cash transfer programmes
- ( J. Seaman;J. Acidri;M. Kachale / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2007)
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Cash transfer programmes have been proposed as a means of providing benefits to targeted
individuals or households in poorer African countries. A large programme aimed at poverty relief would... How can horizontal inequalities be reduced?
- ( A. Langer;A. R. Mustapha;F. Stewart / Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University , 2007)
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This paper analyses the nature and extent of prevailing Horizontal Inequalities (HIs). The research particularly focuses on what can be done to reduce actual and perceived HIs in three West African...
- Alternative methods of measuring poverty in Vietnam
- ( N.N. Nguyen; M. Rama / Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis , 2007)
- What is the most effective way to identify and target the poor? This paper discusses the merits and drawbacks of various poverty targeting methods, in relation to Vietnam. It compares the performance ...
- Estimates of core poverty via different methodologies
- ( D.A. Clark; M. Qizilbash / Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis , 2006)
- Amartya Sen has argued that poverty is a vague concept. This paper develops a methodology for applying a framework which uses a 'supervaluationist' account of vagueness in the context of poverty. This...
- Supporting poverty analysis and monitoring in Angola
- ( J. Isaksen; I. Tvedten; P. Ilinga / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2006)
- The lack of adequate research on poverty in Angola undermines the potential for designing effective policy for poverty reduction. This paper examines both the present status of and the institutional...
- Multidimensional poverty in Mozambique
- ( I. Tvedten; M. Paulo; C. Rosário / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2006)
- The term "opitanha", used in the title of this study, denotes the very poorest and most marginalised in the Mozambican communities referred to in this paper. With the objective to inform policy, it ex...
