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  HIV/AIDS: the impact on poverty and inequality

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2006

  The devastating impacts of the global HIV and AIDS epidemic are well documented. In Africa, the disease is compounding the pre-existing problems of chronic poverty, thereby presenting a major obstacle to development. The decline in health status and life-expectancy in many countries is enormous.
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  Oxfam GB’s experience with cash for work: summaries of evaluations in Bangladesh, Uganda, Kenya, Afghanistan and Haiti

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper gives an overview of Oxfam’s experience with cash for work programmes in five countries as part of their recovery programmes following natural disasters or conflicts.
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  Making city growth work for poor people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.
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  Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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  Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY): providing social support, savings, and microcredit opportunities for young women in areas with high HIV prevalence

  Population Council, USA, 2006

  Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) is a multiphase initiative whose overall aim is to reduce adolescents' vulnerabilities to adverse social and reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection, by improving their livelihoods options. The project operates in low-income and slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya, where rates of HIV infection are high and where young women are disproportionately affected.
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  Indigenous and tribal peoples: an ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less than others from overall declines in poverty.
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  Linking sanitation, water and livelihoods in Nairobi slums

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Nairobi’s slums are among the most unsanitary in the world. Women are more affected by these conditions than men. Kenyan policymakers are becoming more aware of women’s role in providing, managing and safeguarding water and sanitation services. However, they lack knowledge of how access varies by gender and across wealth groups.
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  Understanding rural poverty and investment in agriculture: an assessment of integrated quantitative and qualitative research in Western Kenya

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005

  This article attempts to analyse how and when to combine quantitative and qualitative research methods to improve understanding of how to identify the poor, the nature of poverty, its causes, and its consequences for agricultural practices.
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  Making European aid democratic

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  European Community (EC) development aid claims to be focused on poverty reduction, human rights, participation and democracy. But it is debatable how much civil society organisations influence the Country Strategy Papers that determine how this aid is distributed. 
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  The triad of poverty, environment and child health in Nairobi informal settlements

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002

  This paper explores how community members from Nairobi’s informal settlements understand the linkages between urban poor environments and childhood illnesses.Key findings include: children’s illnesses is mainly due to their impoverished status and environment rather than mothers’ lack of biomedical conceptualization of disease processescommunity’s knowledge of their children’s illne

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