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  Using security to indicate wellbeing

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  This paper argues for socio-economic security to be included as a key component of wellbeing.
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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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  Have pro-poor health policies improved the targeting of spending and the effective delivery of health care in South Africa?

  Bureau for Economic Research, South Africa, 2006

  Since the advent of the post-apartheid era in 1994, the South African health care system has undergone numerous radical policy changes. Free primary health care was introduced in 1996, and budget allocations have largely shifted to traditionally poorly endowed provinces.
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  Pluralism, tenancy and poverty: cultivating open-mindedness in poverty studies

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2006

  Examining poverty in a one-dimensional manner produces only a partial image. The complexities of poverty require a multi-dimensional approach in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding.
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  Global estimates of pro-poor growth

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Defining growth as pro-poor requires that it benefits the poor proportionally more than the non-poor.
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  Using change rankings to understand poverty dynamics: examining the impact of CFPR/TUP from community perspective

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006

  Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income-expenditure surveys can overestimate transient poverty and underestimate the persistence of poverty, especially for the poorest.This study makes use of an alternative approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a livelihoods programme for the ultra-poor delivered by BRAC in Bangladesh.
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  Using rapid city surveys to inform municipal social policy: an application in Cali, Columbia

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2006

  Since a wave of decentralisation in the from the 1970s onwards, local governments in many developing countries are given increasing responsibility to implement anti-poverty measures. Hence, local governments and their partners have both an opportunity and a need to analyse key local bottlenecks for poverty reduction and social development.
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  Annotated bibliography of recent Q2 analyses of poverty

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2006

  This annotated bibliography was prepared to help promote a better integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches to poverty assessment in the developing world through the facilitation of information sharing.Over 100 papers have been reviewed in this compilation and divided into three main classifications: conceptual, methodological, and those focusing on 'lessons learned'.
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  Income poverty in 2004: a second engagement with the recent van der Berg et al figures (SDS Working Paper, No 47)

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2006

  Recent poverty estimates, made by acclaimed South African academics, have become accepted as truth by a government in need of some good news. This paper makes use of the Labour Force Surveys (LFS) for 2001 and 2004 to argue that the previous poverty estimates, commonly assumed to be accurate, are in fact too low.
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  Poverty and equity: measurement, policy and estimation with DAD

  International Development Research Centre, 2006

  This book covers a relatively wide range of material relating to the analysis of poverty. Detailing a number of statistical analyses, the readers can gain an insight into the challenges posed and the insights generated by the methods used to analyse poverty and equity.The reader is introduced to the use of DAD, a software for distributive analysis.

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