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    The measurement of poverty with geographical and intertemporal price dispersion: evidence from Rwanda

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005
    This paper uses data from Rwanda in 1983 to show the importance of an accurate price deflation based on local and seasonal prices.
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    Combining quantitative and qualitative methods in assessing chronic poverty: the case of Rwanda

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005
    The aim of this working paper is to demonstrate the value of and need for employing a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of chronic poverty in Rwanda.
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    Evaluation of NPA's support to Mutuelle, a voluntary health insurance scheme in Rwanda

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005
    Following the withdrawl of donor support for health services after the emergency period, the government of Rwanda introduced user fees. This led to a decrease in the demand for health services, and it is from this background that Mutuelle emerged. Introduced in 1999, Mutuelle is a community based health insurance scheme.
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    Toward a conflict sensitive poverty reduction strategy: lessons from a retrospective analysis

    World Bank, 2005
    This report aims to determine how causes and consequences of violent conflict can best be addressed within a country’s poverty reduction program. It is based on a a retrospective analysis of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) experience in nine conflict affected countries namely, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH), Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Georgia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.
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    Linking policies and budgets: implementing medium term expenditure frameworks in a PRSP context

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This briefing paper focuses on the effectiveness of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) in offering a more practical approach to the implementation of the strategies laid out in the PRSPs (Povery Reduction Strategy Papers). It is based on nine country case studies which investigated the experience of implementing MTEFs in a PRSP context.
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    A place to live: women's inheritance rights in Africa

    Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2005
    This paper examines women's differential needs and challenges for obtaining housing. The report grew out of a consultative survey of women in 10 African countries, including interviews with individuals and members of government, and workshops with local experts.
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    Increasing women’s role in food security in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Women play a key role in securing food throughout Africa, yet local customs and legal institutions often discriminate against women, denying them access to land, resources, education and public services. Healthcare is also an issue, particularly HIV/AIDS. Women have to care for themselves and for sick relatives, leaving less time to find or produce food.
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    Migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004
    This paper reports on the findings of a survey conducted on migration and pro-poor policy in East Africa. It identifies the importance of migration to the poor, discusses migration policies, key issues and policy gaps in each country, as well as the region as a whole.
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    Learning the lessons on PSIA: a synthesis of experience from the DFID Pilot Studies

    PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003
    Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) aims to improve policy formation in low-income countries and is hailed as a key element both of national PRS processes, and in the design of IMF and World Bank lending programmes. PSIA is an approach for assessing the effects of policy change on the well being of different groups in society.
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    Rwanda country assistance plan

    Department for International Development, UK, 2003
    This document sets out DFID’s plans for assistance to Rwanda during the period 2003-2006.The current situation in Rwanda includes:continuing regional instabilitya highly vulnerable rural majoritypolitical and social fragility extreme environmental degradationthe highest population density in Africa high levels of inequalityan emerging HIV/AIDS epidemicsevere

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