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Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security, Poverty

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  Aid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.
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  The politics of poverty: aid in the new cold war

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report sets out mistakes that have been made in the past in relation to the politicisation of aid. Based on case studies in Afghanistan and Uganda, it also shows how they are being repeated. The authors argue that the growing politicisation of aid threatens to obscure the goal of poverty reduction.
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  Rebuilding after war: micro-level determinants of poverty reduction in Mozambique

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This report examines household and community characteristics linked to poverty and develops a microeconometric model to measure the influence of education, employment, demographics, agricultural technology, and infrastructure on consumption.
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  Livelihoods, chronic conflict and humanitarian response: a synthesis of current practice

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  A large part of the populations of several countries (including the more remote and agriculturally ‘difficult’ areas) live in situations of chronic conflict or political instability.
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  Moldova's transition to destitution

  SIDA Studies, 2000

  Reviews and analysis of events and issues which have led to Moldova’s severe peacetime decline in economic performance and living standards during the past decade.
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  An assessment of the effects of Norwegian development assistance on poverty reduction and conflict prevention

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2001

  This study assesses the impact of Norwegian aid assistance. Recent research into aid effectiveness has shown that aid is most effective in poverty reduction when it is targeted to countries that are very poor and (among those countries) when it is focused on those that have made substantial progress reforming economic institutions and policies.
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  Impact of liberalisation on social security arrangements in India

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper addresses the impact of liberalisation on social security arrangements in India and measures the effect of opening up various sectors to private participation. It looks at the growth of informal economy after liberalisation and its effect on the individual and ageing populations.
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  Losing ground: Israel, poverty and the Palestinians

  Christian Aid, 2003

  Based on Christian Aid's work with local organisations in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories over the last five decades, this report looks at how and why ordinary Palestinians find themselves in conditions of deepening poverty.The paper demonstrates that today's acute impoverishment is in danger of destroying Palestinian society.
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  Tackling poverty by reducing armed violence: recommendations from a Wilton Park Workshop

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This paper reports on a DFID sponsored conference at which small arms experts and development agency representatives discussed ways and means of integrating arms controls into development policy and programmes.Key findings and recommendations that emerged from that workshop include:small arms availability and use is a development issue but more needs to be done to document its impact on
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  Does informal credit provide security? rural banking policy in India

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  This paper addresses rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and its effect on credit portfolios of rural workers. It explores major directions of rural banking and credit policy and indicators of performance of this activity in India since 1969, when 14 major commercial banks were nationalized.

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