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    The implications of horizontal and vertical inequalities for tax and expenditure policies

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2009
    While horizontal inequality, or inequality between groups of people, is increasingly recognised as an impediment to long-term poverty reduction in multi-ethnic societies, there is less clarity still on which policy instruments are most suited to correcting group-wise resource distribution.
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    Global poverty and inequality: a brief retrospective and prospective analysis

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2009
    Over the past ten years, poverty reduction has risen up the international policy agenda as never before. This has been the outcome of a growing awareness among OECD countries of the need to address poverty, in part realised through civil society campaigning. But the task at hand is far from complete: it is currently estimated that 1.4 billion people worldwide live below the poverty line.
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    Growth without development - looking beyond inequality: does polarisation explain the divergence between growth and development?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    Several countries that have enjoyed high rates of economic growth over the last decade, particularly in Asia, have performed less well on social indicators such as health and education.
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    Inequality and cost of electoral campaigns in Latin America

    Ibmec São Paulo, 2008
    A fundamental characteristic of Latin America and the Caribbean is the region’s high level of inequality. It is also a region that has shown impressive developments in democracy over the past decades. Electoral
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    Wealth distribution, poverty and timber governance in Uganda

    Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment, Uganda, 2008
    With the increased economic value of its natural resources, Uganda has recently increased public investment in its forestry sector. For instance, both the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) and the Environment and Natural Resources Sector Investment Plan (ENR SIP) include increased budgetary allocations on forests.
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    Global aspects and implications of horizontal inequalities: inequalities experienced by Muslims worldwide

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2008
    Although studies on inequality increasingly take into account the inequalities that exist between groups, there has been little analysis so far of these kinds of inequalities – also known as horizontal inequalities (HIs) - at the global level.
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    Return to Alma-Ata

    The Lancet, 2008
    This editorial in the Lancet written by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), looks at what has happened to primary health care (PHC) in the 30 years since it was articulated in the Alma Ata declaration.
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    Inequality in mortality in Vietnam: unravel the causes

    Department of Economics, Umeå University, 2008
    This study investigates the association between socio-economic variables and mortality in Vietnam.
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    Rich meets poor – an international fairness experiment

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    While poverty-focused campaigns such as the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals argue their case in terms of charity, others, including fair trade initiatives, attempt to appeal to people’s sense of justice. But which approach is more persuasive? The Chr.
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    Elder poverty in an ageing world: conditions of social vulnerability and low income for women in rich and middle‐income nations

    Luxembourg Income Study, 2008
    In most rich countries, poverty among younger pensioners (under age 70) is no longer a major policy problem, but women typically constitute two-thirds to three-quarters or more of the elderly poor in rich countries. Poverty in rich nations is especially a problem among women aged 75 and older who live alone.

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