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    Balancing development and conservation? an assessment of livelihood and environmental outcomes of non-timber forest product trade in Asia, Africa and Latin America

    Ecology and Society, 2006
    This article evaluates the extent to which Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. The analysis is based on a standardised expert-judgment assessment of the livelihood and environmental outcomes of 55 cases of NTFP trade from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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    Wild resources and livelihoods of poor households in Democratic Republic of Congo

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    Wild foods including bushmeat have long been recognised as important famine foods underpinning coping strategies for poor people. Yet there is mounting pressure from conservation agencies to limit the extraction of wild resources, particularly bushmeat.
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    Determinants of knowledge of HIV status in South Africa: results from a population-based HIV survey

    BioMed Central, 2009
    With over 30% of women and men in the South Africa's 2005 national HIV household survey indicating that they had previously been tested for HIV (of which 91% were aware of their test results), this paper published by BioMed Central seeks to describe the associations between socio-demographic, behavioural and social characteristics and knowledge of HIV status among a nationally representati
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    Poverty and disability among Indian elderly: evidence from household survey

    Australia South Asia Research Centre, 2009
    In India, more than one quarter of the Indian aged population (age 60 upwards) is disabled.  Age-specific disability rates and the severity of disablement increases with age.  Indian data also suggests that that 40 percent of the elderly live below the poverty line and 90 percent are neither covered by any state pension nor have any family to take care of them.
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    Household expenditure on food at home in Malaysia

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008
    This paper analyses the food expenditure patterns of different income groups and the relationships between household characteristics and expenditure patterns in Malaysia. Rising income is expected to lead to a diversification in consumption patterns, as staple foods like rice are replaced by higher value grain based foods like wheat and wheat-based products.
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    Requiescat in pace? The consequences of high priced funerals in South Africa

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
    In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral.  Loans might be taken out with money  lenders, if need be, in order to have a funeral that befits the status of the household and of the person who has died.
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    Economic growth, employment and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

    Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
    Despite steady growth in most Arab Middle East and North Africa countries, the region has achieved very modest gains in reducing poverty or increasing employment. In fact, poverty and unemployment, especially among the young, are widespread. This paper provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region.
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    Moving out of poverty in Tanzania: evidence from Kagera

    Journal of Development Studies, 2009
    In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are able to escape from poverty, while others are not. This kind of research is most insightful when it is focuses on pathways out of poverty under particularly trying circumstances.
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    Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)

    Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the famil
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    How to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design

    Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics, 2009
    Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole.

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