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  Migration and development: how to make migration work for poverty reduction

  UK Parliament, 2004

  This report illustrates how governments and organisations can make migration work for the poor.
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  Coordination failure and employment in South Africa

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper examines the phenomenon by which South Africa lost more than 890,000 jobs from 1989 to 1999, but still had an increase in the number of skilled workers over that period. The authors construct a model to explain this phenomenon.
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  Globalization and international inequalities: gaps and poverty in the long run

  Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, Buenos Aires, 2002

  This paper examines the historical evolution of international income inequality.
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  World Economic Situation and Prospects 2004

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2004

  This paper argues that despite setbacks in world economic growth due to SARS and the prospect of war in Iraq, the world economy is making a comeback. The authors state that the strength of the current recovery is still heavily dependent on policy ensuring low interest rates and expansionary fiscal measures.
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  Economic security for a better world

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This report is the first attempt to measure global economic security as perceived by ordinary people and was based on detailed household and workplace surveys covering over 48,000 workers and more than 10,000 workplaces worldwide. Economic security is measured on the basis of seven forms of work-related security including income, labour markets, employment, skills, work, jobs and representation.
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  Working together? The limits of local producer’s groups in Ghana

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Encouraging local producers to form co-operative groups has been an important part of development policy in Africa. Such co-operative projects can help to reduce poverty in remote areas and give members greater control over their livelihoods. However, the benefits may be short-term or not be distributed evenly, and external subsidies can make groups dependent on donors.
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  The curse of remoteness: why some African households fail to benefit from economic growth

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Economic growth in some African countries has improved the well-being of the poorest. However, in remote areas poverty remains entrenched. New research argues that Africa’s economic growth will not be translated into poverty reduction until the poor are given better access to markets and to basic infrastructure, such as roads.
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  Growth accelerations

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004

  Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, this paper focuses on turning points in growth performance.
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  Globalization, poverty and inequality: are the criticisms vague, vested, or valid?

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 2003

  This paper argues that lasting global economic integration is not the inevitable outcome of the process of globalisation. Many alternative outcomes are possible, and many of these will be far less favourable to the poor.

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