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    Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya

    ActionAid International, 2013
    Collecting data on all women’s work, both paid and unpaid, is critical to improving the design of social policies and the allocation of resources to address poverty and inequality. This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda.
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    Reducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America

    Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    This working paper, produced by the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, investigates the relationship between emissions, inequality and poverty in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. Research on this topic is of particular importance, since changing global demographics mean that the majority of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries.
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    Income distribution under Latin America's new left regimes

    Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
    This paper reviews factors that have led to a decline in income inequality that has taken place over 2002–2007 in most Latin American countries against the background of its steady increase over 1980–2002. The paper then analyses the factors that could explain this trend reversal.
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    Human rights and status of older women in india - a national study

    Agewell Foundation, 2011
    India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+).  This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from the mainstream of the society. Living as second class citizen for centuries, their mindset has also developed accordingly and never enjoyed privileges of development.
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    Poverty in Asia and the Pacific: an update

    Asian Development Bank, 2011
    Despite continued poverty reduction in the region, Asia and the Pacific remains home to the majority of the world’s poor. In 2008, around 63% of the poor worldwide lived in the region. This paper updates poverty estimates for Asia from 2005 to 2008.
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    An analysis of the national budget: allocation for the ultra poor

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
    This dialogue report provides a view of poverty in Bangladesh. The country has been performing well from the growth perspective in the recent past as GDP growth rate has been on average of 5.8% per year during 2000-2010.
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    Rethinking poverty: report on the world social situation 2010

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010
    This report on the world social situation seeks to contribute to a rethinking poverty and its eradication. The paper affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking towards more sustainable development- and equity-oriented policies appropriate to national circumstances.
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    A second look at measuring inequality in South Africa: a modified Gini coefficient

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
    The distribution of income and wealth in South Africa is core to political debate in the country. At the heart of the debate is the Gini coefficient, which is the international standard for measuring the distribution of income and wealth in a country.
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    Religious mobilization for development and social change: a comparative study of Dalti movements in Punjab and Maharashtra, India

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2010
    This research focuses on the place of religion in two lower caste movements for social change in the Indian states of Punjab and Maharashtra. The paper notes that both groups faced the challenge of distancing themselves from Hinduism, whilst at the same time developing a cultural and critical system that would give coherence and legitimacy to the movements.
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    The Global Gender Gap Report 2010

    World Economic Forum, 2010
    The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, as a framework for capturing and measuring gender based disparities and tracking their progress. It seeks to highlight those countries that are role models in dividing resources equitably between women and men, regardless of their level of resources. In 2010, 134 countries were included in the index.

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