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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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  Globalization and poverty

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This paper explores the effects of globalisation on the poorest people in developing countries through the analysis of cross-sectional data.Findings include:the case for trade openness improving growth is a reasonable one for generalisationthe case for a linkage between liberalisation policies and trade is mixedthe case for trade exacerbating inequality (which could impact the p
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  Making markets work for the poor: challenge to Sida's support to private sector development

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This report provides a basic descriptive framework and a source of knowledge on poverty focused private sector development.
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  Trickle-down, trickle-up or puddle?: participatory value chains analysis for pro-poor enterprise development

  Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service, 2003

  This paper provides a practical guide to value chains analysis, and how it can be used as part of participatory processes for strategic learning and ongoing accountability within and between enterprise sectors.
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  Tackling poverty: a proposal for European Union aid reform

  British Overseas NGOs for Development, 2002

  EU aid to low-income countries has fallen to an all-time low: from 70 percent in 1990 to 39 percent in 2000. This paper argues that by focusing on middle-income countries, EU aid is not poverty-focused, and its effectiveness and reputation is suffering as a result.
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  The political economy of chronic poverty

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper argues that far from globalisation providing widespread opportunities for the poor in the short to medium term, the level of global poverty is likely to increase in absolute terms, in terms of incidence and depth.
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  Informal economy: safety valve or growth opportunity?

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2001

  This paper examines the informal sector in the light of the dynamic growth opportunities it presents.
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  Imagine there's no country: poverty, inequality, and growth in the era of globalization

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2002

  This book attempts to evaluate the data and draw conclusions on four related subjects: the nature and level of economic growth; the level and change in world income distribution; the level and change in absolute poverty; and the effect of globalisation on all of the above.Conclusions:poor people do much better than the average with globalisation.
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  Stop the traffic!

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This paper discusses the current child trafficking situation in the UK, trafficking trends across different international regions and proposes necessary interventions to prevent future trafficking and to protect and rehabilitate victims of trafficking.The primary cause of child trafficking is the demand, both for cheap labour in growing economies and in the commercial sex industry.
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  Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2003

  This year's report proposes a policy approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by addressing the structural constraints that impede economic growth and human development.

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