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    Where the poor are: an atlas of poverty

    Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 2006
    This atlas brings together a varied collection of maps from many continents and countries, depicting small area estimates of vital development indicators in significant spatial detail, and discussing their many potential uses.The maps demonstrate a number of scenarios:the global spread of poverty is illustrated by the worldwide scale of infant mortality the global distribution of hunger
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    Integrating quantitative and qualitative research for country case studies of development

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2007
    This paper reviews the use of combinations of quantitative and qualitative approaches (Q-squared) for country level studies with particular reference to the work of the Global Development Network (GDN).The author discusses the main features of these approaches, examines their strengths and weaknesses, presents a framework for selecting the structure of Q-squared research programmes and presents
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    Baseline survey of the 21 ISRDP and URP nodes

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2006
    This report is the third in a sequence that gives qualitative and quantitative data from socio-economic and demographic baseline studies in 21 South African areas (nodes) making up the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme (ISRDP) and Urban Renewal Programme (URP).
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    Identifying chronically deprived countries: results from cluster analysis

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    This paper provides a classification of non-OECD countries on the basis of the level of, and the change in, their average welfare over recent decades. The aim is to improve on existing classifications and to provide a useful and policy relevant analysis,which can then feed into further research.
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    Poverty in time: exploring poverty dynamics from life history interviews in Bangladesh

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    Renewed interest in understanding the dynamics of poverty has prompted the development of combined qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis. More participatory techniques have also added to the multi-dimensional concept of poverty.
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    Poverty measurement blues: some reflections on the space for understanding 'chronic' and 'structural' poverty in South Africa

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2007
    This paper considers the difficulties that arise out of the domination of development studies and poverty research by what is called the 'econometric imaginary': an approach that frames questions of social understanding as essentially questions of measurement.Using the case of South Africa, it argues that measurement-based, econometric approaches to chronic poverty are dependent upon mystifying
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    Inequality aversion and stochastic decision-making: experimental evidence from Zimbabwean villages after land reform

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006
    Land reform has come to dictate a great deal more than simple distribution in many African countries.
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    Experience and institutional capacity for poverty and income distribution analysis in Angola

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
    The lack of adequate research on poverty in Angola undermines the potential for designing effective policy for poverty reduction. This paper examines both the present status of and the institutional basis for poverty analysis in Angola.
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    "Opitanha": social relations of rural poverty in northern Mozambique

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
    The term "opitanha", used in the title of this study, denotes the very poorest and most marginalised in the Mozambican communities referred to in this paper.
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    A menu of options for intra-household poverty assessment

    Poverty Assessment Tools, 2006
    This report offers a preliminary assessment of gender-sensitive intra-household poverty tools and provides recommendations for further research and pilot-testing to develop such tools.The report reviews the literature on intra-household inequality, providing a critical assessment of the existing literature's ability to measure intra-household dynamics accurately and at low-cost.

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