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  Conflict's children: the human cost of small arms in Kitgum and Kotido, Uganda

  Oxfam, 2001

  Reporting on a field study conducted in several areas and instutions in Kitgum and Kotido (Uganda), this paper presents a literature review, results of informant interviews, and assesses the impact of small arms on education.Conclusions and recommendations:Small arms have played a major role in creating the devastating poverty and misery experienced by the majority of the civilian po
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  Global poverty report 2000

  African Development Bank, 2000

  This report was prepared for the G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit Meeting 2000 by a consortium of multilateral finance organizations including African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank.The report focuses on three main topics:global poverty conditions and trendsregional poverty tr
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  Lifting the veil on institutional violence: understanding Israel's contribution to Palestinian underdevelopment

  Christian Aid, 2001

  The article points out that the most serious issue for attention is the effect of Israeli government policies which contribute to the long term underdevelopment of the economy.The article is particularly critical of:the illegal process of Israeli expanding settlement in the West Bank and Gazathe strategic control the Israelis leverage over the Palestinian water resources.
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  Central Asia: Islamist mobilisation and regional security

  International Crisis Group, 2001

  This article deals with the issue of Islamic radical activity in Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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  Uprooting the rural poor in Rwanda

  Human Rights Watch, 2001

  Reports on the human rights violations as a result of the Rwandan governments implementation of the National Habitat Policy.
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  The impact of armed conflict on children

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.
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  Anti-poverty policies: a symposium

  International Journal of Development Economics, 2000

  This is a symposium dealing with public policy toward lessening poverty in the United States and in the world. The articles in this symposium recognise the importance of five policy fields in reducing poverty. Chapters and conclusions:Introduction - economic growth and inequality.
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  Coping with uncertainty - Petty producers in postwar Mozambique

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Since the early 1990s, Mozambican society has undergone significant changes. The Peace Accord in 1992 enabled demobilisation of most former soldiers and repatriation of almost two million refugees from the neighbouring countries, and the Government has launched an extensive programme of market-oriented reform and political reconciliation.
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  Welfare in transition: trends in poverty and well-being in Central Asia

  Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1999

  Examines the impact of the transition from a planned to a market economy on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, along with the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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  Demobilization and its implications for HIV/AIDS

  Linking Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative, 2000

  Traditionally demobilization of military personnel has followed the signature of peace accords to facilitate the transition from war to peace and to preserve national and international security.

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