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  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre (DFID HSRC)

  The DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC) and Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC) merged into a single resource centre in 2005.
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  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO (CMH)

  The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was launched by WHO in January 2000.
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  Social Development and Poverty Alleviation Division, UNDP (SEPED)

  SEPED is comprised of four units that are responsible for one area of focus and/or themes.
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  International Poverty Health Network (IPHN)

  The International Poverty and Health Network [IPHN] formed as a result of a series of meetings organised by the World Health Organisation [WHO] on the theme of poverty and health.The website and em
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  ACC Network on Rural Development and Food Security

  The ACC Network is a mechanism for World Food Summit follow-up.
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  Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy

  European Development Research Network, 2006

  This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries.The research finds that while there is a close relationship between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes.
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  Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

  Journal of Development Studies, 2006

  This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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  Have pro-poor health policies improved the targeting of spending and the effective delivery of health care in South Africa?

  Bureau for Economic Research, South Africa, 2006

  Since the advent of the post-apartheid era in 1994, the South African health care system has undergone numerous radical policy changes. Free primary health care was introduced in 1996, and budget allocations have largely shifted to traditionally poorly endowed provinces.
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  Making PRSP inclusive

  Handicap International, 2006

  Disabled people's organisations (DPOs) and people with disabilities rarely participate in any PRSP process, despite the professed importance of civil society involvement in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of a country's national poverty reduction strategy.
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  Using social transfers to scale up equitable access to education and health services

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This paper focuses on the impact of one form of demand-side policy option – social transfers, particularly cash transfers and vouchers - on access to health and education services by the extreme poor.

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