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  Urban poverty and development in the 21st century: towards an inclusive and sustainable world

  Oxfam, 2006

  As of 2007, more people will live in cities than in rural areas, a proportion that is set to increase in years to come. In light of this, this paper argues that urban planning and urban development policies are crucial to the creation of an environmentally stable global society and discusses what can be done to promote more inclusive and sustainable cities.
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  The impact of conflict on the intergenerational transmission of chronic poverty: an overview and annotated bibliography

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007

  This overview and annotated bibliography reviews the multi-disciplinary literature on the impact of conflict on intergenerational transmission (IGT) of chronic poverty.It addresses the following issues:the mechanisms by which conflict causes povertythe duration of the resulting povertythe likelihood that poverty will be transmitted from one generation to anotherthe types of
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  Rural poor in rich rural areas: poverty in rural Argentina

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Extreme income poverty in rural Argentina has reached exorbitant levels.
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  Reducing urban violence in developing countries

  Brookings Institution, 2006

  This brief presents an integrated framework for understanding urban violence. It is informed by the findings from participatory urban appraisals of violence undertaken in 18 poor urban communities in Colombia and Guatemala.The paper argues that evidence from Latin America challenges the popular stereotype that poverty is the main cause of violence.
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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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  The post-apartheid evolution of earnings inequality in South Africa, 1995-2004

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Understanding earnings inequality is a major part in understanding the inequality in total income in South Africa, where earnings constitute the main component of income.
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  Membership based organizations of the poor: concepts, experience and policy

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2006

  Central to achieving equitable growth and poverty reduction are organisations whose governance structures are accountable to the poor, and therefore respond to their needs and aspirations. This paper focuses on Membership Based Organisations of the Poor (MBOPs). It outlines structures and activities that characterise MBOPs, and it identifies determinants of their success and failure.
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  The determinants and consequences of chronic and transient poverty in Nepal

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  Policy designed to reduce both chronic and transient poverty needs to look at the root causes common to both. This study focuses on the impacts of wealth, human capital and ethnicity on both types of poverty.
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  Labor segmentation and poverty

  Making markets work better for the poor, 2006

  Since labour is the main asset of the poor, how the poor take advantage of the opportunity and benefit from growth depend critically on the functioning of the labour markets. This paper determines the extent and main causes of labour market segmentation in Viet Nam, and thus its impact on poverty.The study reveals some strong evidence of labour market segmentation.
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  Poverty and policy in post-apartheid South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006

  The end of apartheid heralded the beginning of an era free of the discrimination, inequity and injustice that had long pervaded the South African political economy. The chapters in this book examine the welfare shifts in post-apartheid society.The authors contextualise the paper by looking back to the sources of and constraints on long-term growth from as early as the 1970s.

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