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  Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyse the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala.
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  How does poverty affect migration choice?: a review of literature

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2003

  This paper takes a sustainable livelihoods approach to understanding the relationship between migration and poverty, and it explores the effects of poverty on people’s decision and ability to migrate.A livelihood approach to poverty and migration emphasises that: whilst migration does occur in response to crisis for some, it is also a central livelihood strategy for many people in the face of p
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  Globalization, local ecosystems and the rural poor

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at how globalisation leads to poverty via the degradation of local ecosystems on which the poor depend for their livelihood.It uses models on ecosystem dynamics from ecology and links them to models in New Institutional Economics that examine how institutions and technologies evolve.
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  Globalization and rural poverty

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the impact of globalisation on rural poverty, in both the agricultural and non-agricultural sector.The paper analyses the processes through which globalisation, in terms of openness to foreign trade and long-term capital flows, affects the lives of the rural poor.
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  Textile and clothing trade rules prevent poverty alleviation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Textiles and clothing exports from developing countries continue to undermine poverty alleviation despite current changes to trade rules. Since 1974, rich countries have used the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas to restrict entry of these goods to their markets.
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  Poverty and the welfare costs of risk associated with globalization

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the risks of globalisation and their impacts on poor households, by examining the variation in consumption expenditures across countries.
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  Globalization, poverty, inequality, and insecurity: some insights from the economics of happiness

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the relationship between globalisation, poverty and inequality by subjective well being or happiness studies, as well as the literature on the economics of happiness.The studies in Latin America and Russia examine how the dynamics of poverty and inequality affect well-being.
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  Workshop and policy forum on the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2004

  This paper reports on a conference on internal displacement held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 2004.
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  Globalisation, institutional arrangements and poverty in rural Cameroon

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003

  This paper examines changes in the global and national institutional environment in Cameroon since the 1980s and describes their effects on rural poverty.
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  Globalisation and social security in low-income countries: the case of Côte d’Ivoire

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003

  This paper argues that the impacts of globalisation have created new challenges for social security systems in developing countries, and looks at ways in which these systems could be redesigned in order to alleviate poverty and guarantee economic security.

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