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  Poverty dynamics, violent conflict and convergence in Rwanda

  Microcon, 2008

  This paper analyses household income and poverty dynamics both before and after violent conflict in Rwanda. It explores the socio-economic characteristics of households that move in and out of poverty in order to understand the impact of socio-economic shock.
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  How many struggle to get by in retirement?

  Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007

  The dramatic decline in the official poverty rate of adults age 65 and older over the last four decades in the United States leads many to assume that reducing poverty among older adults need not be a Government priority. This general observation fails to recognise the deficiencies in the official measure of poverty in the United States.
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  The practitioners' guide to the household economy approach

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008

  This document presents a guide to the Household Economy Approach (HEA). HEA is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain food, non-food goods and services, and how they might respond to changes in their external environment - for example a negative shock, such as a drought or crop failure, or a positive policy change, such as a cash transfer scheme.
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  Poverty, growth and income distribution in Lebanon - country study

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008

  This country study is a modified executive summary of the full report, which is the first to draw a comprehensive profile of poverty in Lebanon based on money-metric measurements of household expenditures. Its data source is a 2004/05 national Living Conditions and Household Budget Survey.
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  Predicting poverty for Mozambique 2000 to 2005: how robust are the models?

  Statistics Norway, 2007

  There is an increasing demand for more frequent measurements of the poverty situation. Statistics Norway has developed a method for monitoring the development in the time periods between full-fledged Household Income and Expenditure Surveys. The goal of this report is to test the method.
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  Integrating 'livelihoods' into integrated water resources management: taking the integration paradigm to its logical next step for developing countries

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007

  Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is now the dominant paradigm for water management in both rich and poor countries. This paper examines the weaknesses in the current understanding of IWRM from a livelihoods perspective. Empowering poor people, reducing poverty, improving livelihoods and promoting economic growth ought to be the basic objectives of IWRM.
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  Food and the poor: how can democratic local governments reduce food insecurity in Africa?

  United Nations Capital Development Fund, 2007

  Food insecurity dramatically affects millions of people both in rural areas and in urban centers of poor countries, with unacceptable human, economic, social and political consequences. This book highlights the specific roles that emerging democratic local governments have to play in reducing food insecurity.
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  Securing household income among small-scale farmers in Kakamega District: possibilities and limitations of diversification

  GIGA Deutsches Orient-Institut / GIGA German Institute for Middle East Studies, 2007

  This paper examines the argument presented in the sustainable rural livelihoods literature that diversification can increase incomes and food security. The case of small-scale farmers in Kakamega District, Kenya is applied. Using this approach, the paper concludes that:
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  Lessons from Ethiopia on a scaled-up national safety net programme

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007

  This brief synthesises three reports on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP). The first is on trends in programme transfers within targeted households. It analyses the economic behaviour of the beneficiaries, particularly their use of cash and food transfers delivered through ‘public works’ or ‘direct support’.
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  Transient and chronic rural household poverty: evidence from Kenya

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007

  This article serves as a toolkit for policy makers addressing transient and chronic poverty in Kenya. It urges that poverty targeting criteria must take into account household sizes, gender of household head, dependency ratios, farm sizes, education attainment and geographic characteristics.

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