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    Inequality and polarization in the Arab World

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This policy perspective examines why levels, changes and determinants of inequality are at the heart of the development agenda and feature prominently in the concerns of the Arab region.
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    Preventing suicide: a global imperative

    World Health Organization, 2014
    Suicide impacts on the most vulnerable of the world’s populations and is highly prevalent in already marginalised and discriminated groups of society.
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    Poverty and gender inequality in asset ownership among households in Southern Nigeria

    2014
    This study concerns gender inequality in the ownership of certain assets among households in Southern Nigeria. With the aid of a structured questionnaire, data were obtained from 60 households using the multistage sampling technique. Results of the analysis are presented using histograms.
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    BRICS-cities and the issue of social mobility: attraction of capital and the right to the city

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    The consolidation of a group of countries, like the BRICS nations, as strong global players demonstrates to the whole world that mobility is a real possibility in the international arena. What the BRICS grouping does not make clear, however, is whether this mobility will result in profound systemic changes towards a more equal and democratic world.
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    Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2010
    Using the example of old age poverty in the Indian city of Chennai, formerly Madras, this research situates old age poverty and inter-generational relations within a multi-level framework that ranges from global economic forces to household resource allocation, taking in government policy, public discourse and gender and age discrimination.
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    Ageing, well-being and development: A comparative study of Brazil and South Africa

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2011
    Brazil and South Africa represent different models of social policies for addressing ageing. Their success in promoting the well-being of older people in disadvantaged settings shows that there is no single “best practice” approach.
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    Hosting the 2010 World Cup: what have we learned? Some South African reflections

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2012
    This policy brief provides a brief glimpse into the complexities and contradictions that often emerge in the run-up to, and the hosting of, mega-events in ‘rising powers’ of the South.
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    BRICS and the challenges of fighting inequality

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2014
    The BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa  - are protagonists in the spread of hopes throughout the globe to reduce poverty and social inequality, as well as the construction of a new world order.
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    What you need to know about the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil

    2014
    Produced by the Secretariat for Social Communication (SECOM) of the Office of the Presidency of Brazil, this document offers a brief overiew of the current and expected benefits that Brazil will receive from hosting the 2014 Football World Cup.
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    Profits and poverty: the economics of forced labour

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    Today, about 21 million men, women and children are in forced labour, trafficked, held in debt bondage or work in slave-like conditions. This report builds on earlier ILO studies on the extent, cost and profits from forced labour. It looks at both the supply and demand sides of forced labour, and presents solid evidence for a correlation between forced labour and poverty.

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