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New key issues guide: Growth and equity

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This guide examines different perspectives on the interaction between economic growth, equity and human development. It introduces the key debates and provides access to a range of specially selected resources allowing the reader to gain a more in depth overview of the issues.

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Does socioeconomic status determine access to health care in Peru?: ( C. Kristiansson;E. Gotuzzo;H. Rodriguez / International Journal for Equity in Health , 2009); Good health is recognised by many as being central to individual and national development. However, there is often a disconnect between the access and utilisation of health services by the poor. In co...
Ill health in households: ( H. Lucas;G. Bloom / Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee , 2006); Ill-health is one of the most serious challenges that many households have to face. This short paper from the Institute of Development Studies provides a background to catastrophic illness, health per...
The impact of demographic transformation on the health of the urban poor: ( M. R. Montgomery / Population Reference Bureau , 2009); This bulletin, published by the Population Reference Bureau, provides a sketch of urban health in developing countries, documenting the intra-urban differences in health for a number of countries and ...
Expensive funerals cause household hardship: ( A. Case;A. Menendez / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009); In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral...
Potential development impact of the 2010 World Cup: ( U. Pillay;R. Tomlinson;O. Bass / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa , 2009); The FIFA World Cup is thought to be the biggest sport and media event in the world. It is a hugely profitable event for FIFA through the sale of television rights and sponsorship deals. The same, howe...
Structural causes of rural poverty in Latin America: ( C. Kay / Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS , 2009); Neither the state-driven development strategy of import-substitution industrialisation from the late 1940s to the 1970s nor the neoliberal market-driven strategy since the 1980s has been able to resol...
Persuading those who have little today to save for tomorrow: ( D. Uthira;H.L. Manohar / International Research Journal of Finance and Economics , 2009); The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme. It provides individual retirement accounts, product choic...
Can the new aid modalities help the poorest?: ( A. Shepherd;L. Cabral / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2008); This paper analyses three important elements of contemporary aid relations in-low income countries: poverty reduction strategies (PRSs), sector-wide approaches (SWAps) and general budget support (G...
2009 UN report on disaster risk reduction: assessing the challenge: ( PreventionWeb , 2009); There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period betwe...
Drought and vulnerability in Malawi: ( D. Makoka / Munich Personal RePEc Archive , 2008); Vulnerability to poverty in Malawi is highly associated with risk. Households face multiple shocks, most of which threaten their livelihoods and impact negatively on their welfare. Among the important...