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    The extent and geographic distribution of chronic poverty in Iraq’s Center/South Region

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2003
    The paper describes an analysis of chronic poverty for the Center/South region of Iraq. It finds that one in five Iraqis or 4.6 million people suffer from chronic poverty. WFP had estimated before the war that 60% of the Iraqi population were entirely dependent on the monthly food rations.
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    Public health and humanitarian interventions: developing the evidence base

    British Medical Journal, 2000
    During an emergency response, there is a tension between saving lives in the short term and promoting longer-lasting health systems development. An article in the British Medical Journal makes the case for expanding the evidence base underlying humanitarian aid.
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    Lessons from conflict: a participatory review of a Ugandan refugee project

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As violence in northwest Uganda seemed to be waning in 1994, international agencies and Ugandan authorities agreed to provide Sudanese refugees with land to grow their own food. The Ikafe project ultimately fell prey to ongoing conflict and the refugees fled back to Sudan. What can we learn from its demise?
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    Thin end of the wedge – under and over-nutrition in Indian women

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Nutrition research in India focuses on under- nutrition. However, rates of obesity are rising, along with chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. Researchers from the Carolina Population Centre, USA, looked at factors linked to under and over-nutrition in Andhra Pradesh in southern India.
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    The size of the problem: malnutrition and obesity in urban India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The World Bank estimates that malnutrition costs India over US$ 10 billion each year due to lost productivity, illness and death. But the results of the largest ever survey of urban adults in India show that there is also a significant level of obesity. Health policy- makers must develop a dual approach to tackle these problems.
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    Why wait for post-conflict reconstruction?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Conflict is a major source of poverty in many developing countries and it also affects neighbouring countries. Why not try and avoid the human and economic costs during conflict? What economic strategies would be most fruitful? Research from the University of Oxford examined how Afghanistan, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda ran their economies during war.
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    New vulnerabilities in South Asia: time for new safety nets?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are South Asia’s poor people losing the informal safety nets traditionally found in family, religious, caste, village and production relations? As the poor lose access to common property resources and customary rights, what new patterns of vulnerability are emerging? Are state and donor-driven social protection measures helping the poor?
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    Healing the scars? Tracing links between environment, food and conflict in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A University of Leeds collaborative study has probed links between environmental change and famine – two problems perceived to lie at the heart of Africa’s current crisis – in the context of another all too often linked to the continent - warfare and civil unrest.
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    Red alert! Anaemia is widespread among women in Andhra Pradesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    South Asia has some of the highest rates of anaemia in the world, mirroring overall levels of malnutrition. Researchers from the University of North Carolina, USA, studied social and economic factors linked to anaemia in Andhra Pradesh, a southern Indian state. They found that anaemia is most common among poor urban women.
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    Climbing out of chronic poverty: Success in Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As they do not own small income-generating businesses, the chronically poor are excluded from most microfinance programmes. However, services that do target the chronically poor, such as food subsidies, do not offer them any long-term opportunities to improve their household incomes and welfare. Is there another way?

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