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    Informality in Egypt: a stepping stone or a dead end?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2009
    In the last few decades, the informal sector has played a major role in many of the Least Developed Countries’ labour markets. This is partly because employment in the informal economy tends to expand during periods of economic adjustment or transition. By the late 1990s, more than two thirds of new workers in Egypt started work in informal employment.
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    ‘Mucupuki’: social relations of rural-urban poverty in central Mozambique

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    The objective of this study on poverty in Mozambique is to support the government in monitoring and evaluating the ongoing "Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty". The paper focuses on social relations of poverty in the interface between rural and urban life, paying special attention to the district of Buzi in central parts of the country.
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    The three concepts of inequality defined

    Princeton University Library, 2005
    There are three concepts of world inequality that need to be sharply distinguished, as they are often confused. This report does just that.
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    Tools for analysing growth and poverty: An introduction

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    How to make pro-poor growth a reality? This report is part of a larger programme that aims to provide better advice to governments on policies that facilitate the participation of poor people in the growth process. Specifically, it seeks to give an intuitive explanation for non-specialists as to why pro-poor growth analysis tools can be useful in practice. The three sets of tools are provided.
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    Closing the gap in a generation

    World Health Organization, 2008
    Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, and are themselves influenced by policy choices.
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    Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: the recent Brazilian experience

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2009
    Known since the 1960s as one of the most unequal countries in the world, poverty and inequality in Brazil have recently declined in spite of negative growth. What factors explain what has occurred in Brazil?
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    A Poverty-Inequality trade-off?

    World Bank Publications, 2005
    When inequality rises, does poverty also rise? This paper examines this question using both absolute and relative measures of inequality. Relative inequality is based on ratios - the higher the ratio between the income of the rich and the poor, the higher the relative inequality.
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    The Vast Majority Income (VMI): A new measure of global inequality

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Does GDP per capita (or the average wealth per person in a country) reflect the amount of wealth that the vast majority of the individuals have? This briefing argues that this is not the case, as averages conceal the distribution of wealth in a society. It proposes an absolute measure of income and inequality, called the Vast Majority Income (VMI).
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    Economic growth, inequality and poverty reduction: Does pro-poor growth matter?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Conventional wisdom is that growth is the most important and maybe the easiest driver of poverty reduction. This briefing argues that various factors influence the magnitude of the poverty reduction that growth can achieve, including initial inequality, the how growth is distributed across groups of people, the composition of public expenditure, the role of labour markets, etc.
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    Income inequality revisited: Can one bring sense back into economic policy?

    Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
    The importance of reducing inequities has become widely recognised as necessary for development. Yet a coherent set of policies to address income inequality has not. This speech reviews various themes on income inequality to show how academic analysis and debate can be strengthened to stem the growing tide of income inequality.

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