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    The Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Indian Villages

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Continued agricultural growth and diversification into nonagricultural activities are essential if India is to continue reducing rural poverty. But policymakers hoping to alleviate rural poverty must also be aware of the causes and implications of persisting, if not increasing, inequality within villages.
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    Transient seasonal and chronic poverty of peasants : evidence from Rwanda

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate seasonal transient and chronic poverty indices,  for different poverty line, poverty indicators, equivalence scale, and with and without the corrections for price variability and for the sampling scheme. We also estimate sampling standard errors for the poverty indices. The worse poverty crises occur after the dry season at the end of the year.
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    Dualistic sector choice and female labour supply : evidence from formal and informal sectors in Cameroon

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    In developing countries, labour supply and activity choices are distorted by the existence of labour market imperfections restricting the entry in the activity sectors or rationing the worked hours. The presence of decreasing returns to labour in the informal sector is another specific characteristic of labour market dualism in LDCs.
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    Social exclusion and Africa south of the Sahara: A review of the literature

    International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1994
    Review for sub-Saharan Africa, examines the English-language literature and focuses on four important dimensions of exclusion: (i) exclusion from agricultural land; (ii) exclusion from agricultural livelihood; (iii) exclusion from formal and informal employment; (iv) exclusion from organization and representation.Paper is organized in six sections.
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    DFID White Paper on International Development: articles from Journal of International Development

    Journal of International Development, 1998
    Series of articles from issue 10(2) of the journal covering the UK White Paper. Including: British aid and the White Paper on International Development: dressing a wolf in sheep’s clothing in the emperor’s new clothes? Howard White Eliminating world poverty: a challenge for the 21st century.
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    Habari ya maendeleo ya Tanzania - 28. A bibliography on recent articles on Tanzanian development studies

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    Regularly published index to journal articles on Tanzania
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    The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.
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    Inequality and the Emergence of Non-farm Employment in Rwanda

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1997
    Examines the structure of income inequality among farm households in Rwanda. Specifically, it focuses on inequalities rooted in the distribution of and holdings and on the attendant polarization of relatively large landholders who tend to hire agricultural wage labor, on the one hand, and near-landless householders who provide this wage labor, on the other.
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    Fighting an Uphill Battle: Population Pressure and Declining Land Productivity in Rwanda.

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1996
    Report draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment: demographically-induced change in the structure of landholding: farm holdings generally become smaller as an ever-increasing number of households enter the agricultural work force and seek to derive their livelihood from th
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    Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
    The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related.

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