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G-20 Declaration blog: disappointments and hopes

Dissapointed with the assumption that promoting growth will lead to poverty reduction. On the other hand, some more concrete points are made regarding development helping the poorest. What do you think?

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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges: R. Holzmann / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2012; Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide finan...
Working together for better safety nets: 2012; Safety net programmes have proved to be a useful instrument to tackle hunger and malnutrition in Bangladesh. However, insufficient co-ordination between the manifold initiatives causes inefficiencies ...
Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion – A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries: I. Ortiz / 2011; This Unicef Social and Economic Working Paper * provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Euro...
Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh : evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project: 2010; Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regula...
Developing Asia’s Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support: Asian Development Bank Institute , 2012; Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pens...
Tackling chronic poverty: The policy implications of research on chronic poverty and poverty dynamics: Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011; The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was founded in 2000 to challenge, through research, the apparent omission of almost a billion people from the 2015 poverty target of the Millennium Developme...
Living on a Spike: N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011; The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in glo...
Policy planning for an ageing population: World Economic Forum, 2012; If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburde...
Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion - A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries: I. Ortiz / United Nations Children's Fund, 2011; This working paper: (i) provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; (ii) discusses the ...
Prioritizing Expenditures for a Recovery for All: A Rapid Review of Public Expenditures in 126 Developing Countries: I. Ortiz / United Nations Children's Fund, 2010; This working paper examines the extent to which fiscal consolidation is occuring in 2010-11 among 126 low and middle-income countries, and the potential risks for children and poor households at a tim...