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  The role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009

  The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.
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  Research briefing: explaining the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil: 1995 - 2012

  International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014

  Long one of the world’s most unequal countries, Brazil has experienced a significant reduction in income inequality since macroeconomic stabilisation around 1994-1995.
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  The urban advantage: is Kenya making progress towards improving the lives of the urban poor? Perspectives: ten years after the year 2000 Nairobi cross-sectional slum survey

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  The poor standard of living in many cities of the developing world has led researchers to question the so-called ‘urban advantage’, which assumes that urban dwellers fare better than their rural counterparts in terms of economic and health conditions.
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  Human rights and status of older women in india - a national study

  Agewell Foundation, 2011

  India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+).  This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from the mainstream of the society. Living as second class citizen for centuries, their mindset has also developed accordingly and never enjoyed privileges of development.
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  Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

  HelpAge International, 2010

  Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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  (Re)counting the poor in Peru: a multidimensional approach

  Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru, 2010

  This paper addresses the debate between the recent evolution of monetary poverty figures and the levels of deprivation of the Peruvian population. The paper relies on a multidimensional approach for poverty measurement to measure the tension between the incidence of monetary poverty and the overall level of deprivation in terms of a set of basic attributes for human development.
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  Elder poverty in an ageing world: conditions of social vulnerability and low income for women in rich and middle‐income nations

  Luxembourg Income Study, 2008

  In most rich countries, poverty among younger pensioners (under age 70) is no longer a major policy problem, but women typically constitute two-thirds to three-quarters or more of the elderly poor in rich countries. Poverty in rich nations is especially a problem among women aged 75 and older who live alone.
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  Poverty, inequality and ethnic minorities in Vietnam

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007

  This study examines how and why ethnic minorities are poorer than ethnic majorities in Vietnam using the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey VHLSS data for 2002 and 2004. The analysis is designed to throw additional light on persistent ethnic poverty and inequality. Key findings include:
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  Innocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006

  This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.
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  False starts: the exclusion of Romani children from primary education in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Amnesty International, 2006

  The low school attendance rates and poor achievement levels of Romani children in the former Yugoslavia are often explained through the use of negative stereotypes about the Roma’s "way of life" or attitude towards education.

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