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  African poverty through the lens of labor economics: earnings and mobility in three countries

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006

  To understand poverty in Africa it is crucial to understand the performance of the small scale sector, from which the vast majority of the poor earn their living.
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  What is poverty?: good question

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  This one-pager from the International Poverty Centre details the changable meanings of poverty and human development. It aims to stimulate a broader debate and lead to greater conceptual and operational clarity on poverty definition issues.The author refers back to the days of the first UN Human Development Report in 1990, with the advent of the Human Development Index (HDI).
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  Methodological Note: using micro data to understand better the intergenerational transmission of poverty in low income developing countries

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  The broad objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which intergenerational transmission of poverty (IGT) takes place in developing countries and through what processes.
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  Asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context: an introduction to asset accumulation policy and summary of workshop findings

  Brookings Institution, 2006

  This working paper provides a brief introduction to asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalised context.
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  Estimating Poverty in Burundi

  Households in Conflict Network, 2006

  Figures from the early 1990s show that Burundi suffered a poverty rate in line with average rates for Sub-Saharan Africa. A decade on, and the debilitating effects of civil war had made their mark on the country's development prospects.
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  Fighting urban poverty: which participatory approaches?

  United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, 2006

  This document is a result of a discussion held during a side event of the third annual World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Canada, June 2005.
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  Testing the Kuznets Curve for countries and households using the body mass index

  Economic Science Research Institute, University of Costa Rica / Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2006

  This paper, prepared for the WIDER Conference on Advancing Health Equity, seeks to test the claim of the Kuznets model that inequality initially increases, and then declines again, as a country develops.
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  Human development report 2006: Beyond Scarcity - Power, poverty and the global water crisis

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006

  For 2006 the UN's Human Development Report focuses on global access to clean water and sanitation.
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  Poverty and exclusion, resources and relationships: theorising the links between economic and social development

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  This paper investigates the nature of illbeing in a Latin American context, with particular reference to debates over the relationship between resource endowments and processes of social exclusion and inclusion.The paper summarises and critiques the social exclusion theory of the Peruvian economist Adolfo Figueroa - also known as the sigma model.
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  Wellbeing, livelihoods and resources in social practice

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  This paper explores the ways a concept of 'resources' can contribute to an understanding of wellbeing.

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