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    Poor health, poor women: how reproductive health affects poverty

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008
    This article stresses the importance of reproductive health of women and its role in escaping or remaining in poverty. The article refers to data showing poor households tending to be larger and poor women tending to have higher rates of fertility. However, experts debate as to whether these conditions cause poverty or are symptoms of poverty.
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    Poverty and violent conflict: a micro level perspective on the causes and duration of warfare

    Microcon, 2008
    Large-scale conflict has dire and unavoidable consequences for civilian communities. The threat of violence, and the ensuing disruption of livelihoods, frequently ensures that households must adopt ‘new’ behaviour and practices in order to survive.
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    Managing assets and vulnerability contexts: vistas of gendered livelihoods of Adivasi women in South India

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
    This paper focuses on the livelihood issues of adivasi or the scheduled tribes in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Examining the gendered vulnerability context of adivasi livelihoods, the author argues that the ability of adivasi livelihood to expand and manage productive assets is gendered. The paper explores how the vulnerability context affects men and women differently.
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    Household sample surveys in developing and transition countries

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2005
    Detailed demographic and socio-economic data have become indispensable in economic and social policy analysis, development planning, programme management and decision-making at all levels. Consequently, policy-makers and other stakeholders have turned to household surveys as an important mechanism for collecting information on populations. [adapted from the authors]
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    Food systems and the escape from poverty and illhealth traps in sub‐Saharan Africa

    Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2008
    Millennium Development Goal number 1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal has been excellent at global level, led by China and India, but largely insufficient in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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    Micro-level food insecurity in contemporary India: perspectives of the food insecure

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
    This paper examines food insecurity within contemporary India at the micro level. It focuses on the temporal dimension of food insecurity in terms of seasonality and inter-month variations in food consumed, and in the variety, palate and nutritional content of the people’s diet.
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    Poverty, inequality and ethnic minorities in Vietnam

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    This study examines how and why ethnic minorities are poorer than ethnic majorities in Vietnam using the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey VHLSS data for 2002 and 2004. The analysis is designed to throw additional light on persistent ethnic poverty and inequality. Key findings include:
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    Soaring food prices and the rural poor: feedback from the field

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
    The prices of basic food commodities have increased rapidly over the past three years and, as a result, the threat to food security in developing countries has increased significantly. This paper by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), examines what soaring food prices at the global level mean for poor rural people across the developing world.
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    High food prices: impact and recommendations

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
    Prepared by the FAO, IFAD and WEP for the meeting of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 28-29 April in Berne, Switzerland, this paper argues that the rapid price increase of basic food commodities internationally poses a serious threat to food security in developing countries.
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    Do changes in the labour market take families out of poverty? Determinants of exiting poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Regions

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    This paper examines the likelihood and the determinants of households' exit out of poverty taking into consideration the length of time the household has spent in poverty. It analyses whether short-term changes in the labour market affect the probability of exiting or remaining in poverty. The paper finds:

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