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  Urban water use: policy brief

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012

  There has been a global shift in the way that water provision for urban water use is viewed. Governments are increasingly choosing to invest in environmental health. By protecting river systems, governments can reduce management costs.
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  Trade and poverty in Mauritius: impact of European Union sugar reforms on the livelihood of sugar cane workers

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011

  Sugar cane remains a major contributor to the Mauritian economy.  Over the last 30 years Mauritius has benefited from the EU Sugar Protocol with net sugar revenues estimated at €4 billion over this period. However, the success of the industry and its revenue contribution to socio-economic development is under threat due to EU sugar reform.
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  The effects of the European Union-imposed livestock identification and traceback system on Botswana’s beef exports and rural poverty

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011

  In 1997 the EU introduced a requirement that beef imports be traceable through a computerised system. To ensure continued access to the EU market, Botswana introduced the livestock identification and traceback system (LITS).
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  Towards gender equality with care-sensitive social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  This policy briefing argues that unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls' uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can help alleviate the drudgery and burden that unpaid care work places upon them.
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  Women and poverty: salient findings from a gendered analysis of a quasi-anthropological study in rural Punjab and Sindh

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2004

  The report is an analysis based on a qualitative investigation of poverty in Pakistan by means of in-depth studies of six villages in six different agro-ecological zones in Punjab and Sindh.
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  Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of workers welfare fund

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012

  Government of Pakistan (GoP) has been facing challenges in ensuring workers’ welfare across the industrial entities of the country. While it has not been able to fully implement the macro-level labour reforms (e.g. the implementation of minimum wage – revised annually) however it is striving to put in place social safety nets such as Benazir Income Support Programmes.
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  Does infrastructure mitigate the effect of urban concentration on poverty in developing countries?

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013

  The paper focuses on a poorly investigated issue, although highly challenging for developing countries, which is the nexus between urban concentration, poverty and infrastructure.
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  The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

  UN, 2014

  Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline.
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  Duration to coverage: dynamics of access to social security in the Egyptian labor market in the 1998-2012 period

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014

  This paper investigates the dynamics of having access to social insurance (SI) coverage on the Egyptian labor market among wage workers throughout 1998 to 2012.
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  Living conditions of displaced persons and host communities in urban Goma, DRC

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014

  Goma has been a central point for the reception of displaced persons over the last 20 years of conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following significant waves of arrivals in 2012 and 2013, due to conflict with the M23 – a militia active in North Kivu from early 2012 to late 2013 – 1 camps around the city were grossly overcrowded.

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