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    Poverty among women in Latin America: feminisation or over-representation?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    The concept of the feminisation of poverty (the extent and multi-faceted impacts of poverty on women) has become widely accepted among women's advocates. This paper questions the usefulness of resources invested in policies based on this concept.The prime objective of the paper is to investigate the occurrence of this feminisation.
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    Report on CPRC workshop on panel surveys and life history methods

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    This paper presents the outcomes of a workshop in which Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) members and other researchers shared experiences of combining quantitative and qualitative methods for the study of chronic poverty.
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    Chinese poverty: assessing the impact of alternative assumptions

    Institute for social and economic research and policy University of Columbia, 2006
    Poverty dynamics in China can play a significant role in determining trends in poverty worldwide. It is widely believed that substantial poverty reduction took place in China throughout the 1990s, though it is unclear whether this achievement has been comparable across regions and whether there have been corresponding national improvements in other aspects of human well-being.
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    Measuring wealth across seven Thai communities

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006
    An asset index method is a statistical method for ranking households according to their wealth. This paper outlines the methodology used to create a wealth index from household survey data.
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    Identification of the poor in Sri Lanka: development of composite indicator and regional poverty lines

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2006
    The multidimensional nature of poverty creates difficulties in both identification and definition.
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    Poverty: causes, responses and consequences in rural South Africa

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    The limitations of orthodox measures of poverty are well-documented. Measuring the incidence of poverty may be an important aspect, but does not explain the causes of poverty. This paper examines recent contributions to the analysis of poverty, particularly those emphasising the constraints on the poor posed by social relations and institutions that systematically benefit the powerful.
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    Assessing the pro-poorness of government fiscal policy in Thailand

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    Fiscal policy represents one of the key ways in which public actions can have an impact on poverty. This can occur both through its impacts on growth and on distribution. This paper focuses on assessing the impact of fiscal policy on poverty.
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    Predicting consumption poverty using non-consumption indicators: experiments using Indonesian data

    SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2006
    The most widely used data for measuring welfare or poverty is household consumption expenditure, especially in developing countries where household income data is considered more difficult to collect and less accurate. This method is not, however, without its own problems.
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    Trends in poverty and inequality since the political transition

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006
    One of the largest policy debates in South Africa currently revolves around the issue of whether or not poverty and inequality have been reduced since political transition from the apartheid regime to democracy.
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    Exploring the relationship between happiness, objective and subjective well-being: evidence from rural Thailand

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006
    Well-being is a broad concept ranging from subjective accounts of individuals' happiness to fulfilment or satisfaction of a given list of capabilities, functionings or needs.

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