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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.
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  How poverty separates parents from children: a challenge to human rights

  ATD Fourth World, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of poverty on families, particularly on children. Looking specifically at case studies in Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Haiti, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines, this paper examines the way that children and families experience poverty, the way that current discourse frames this issue, and comes up with several lessons learnt on the topic.
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  Valuing children, valuing parents

  ATD Fourth World, 2004

  This paper is the English translation of Precieux enfants, precieux parents published in November 2003. The paper is a response to the European Union's commitment to fight child poverty, and discusses parents and children living in extreme poverty.
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  Proceedings of the First General Assembly of South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report provides the summary of the proceedings of the First General Assembly of South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), highlighting the key issues discussed and ideas conceived for the development of the alliance.The objectives of the meeting were to:strengthen the SAAPE alliance of civil society organisations at the regional level and develop strategies to work effecti
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  Persistent poverty in upper east Ghana

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This policy brief explores the nature of the poverty and the kinds of poverty traps faced by rural households in the Tempane-Gagbiri region of Upper East Ghana. It is based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered in 1975 and 1989.
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  Poverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper is a micro-level attempt to empirically test hypotheses of economic growth by examining risk management, marginal returns on productive assets, and asset dynamics across settings distinguished by different agroecological and market access conditions, in Kenya and Madagascar.The author claims that macroeconomic growth theories are characterized by three different hypotheses, which hav
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  Fracture points in social policies for chronic poverty reduction

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper examines the fracture points in social policy formation, from agenda setting through to policy formation and its legitimisation. The authors query the reasons as to why policy makers may still fail to generate adequate responses, despite having clearly identified severe and widespread problems.
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  Poverty in Malawi

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997-98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. The analysis develops basic needs poverty lines, using consumption-based measures of welfare to classify households and individuals as poor and non-poor. The analysis provides poverty and inequality estimates for Malawi’s population.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  What does the State do for Indian women?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  The Indian state has always had policies specially targeted at women, such as family planning policies which included measures to reduce maternal mortality, literacy and education policies, and help for widows, tribals, Muslim women, and working women.

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