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  Extending the household economy approach to support the design of cash transfer programmes in Zambia

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007

  Cash transfer programmes have been proposed as a means of providing benefits to targeted
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  Child labour in Venezuela: children's vulnerability to macroeconomic shocks

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2006

  What is the extent of children’s work and children’s vulnerability to work involvement in Latin America? This study provides a profile of working children in Venezuela for the 2000 reference year and examines the impact on children’s work produced by the economic crisis which hit the country during the period 2002-2003.
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  The urban informal sector and poverty: effects of trade reform and capital mobility in India

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007

  According to conventional wisdom, economic reform is likely to reduce informal sector wages.This paper examines the contrary case of post-liberalisation India where real wages in the informal manufacturing sector have risen significantly across most states.It offers detailed empirical evidence how this wage change has affected poverty at the state level.
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  Textiles protection and poverty in South Africa

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007

  An important debate is underway in South Africa, on whether it should protect its deteriorating textile industry. This paper examines whether implementing trade barriers will result in better domestic policy objectives. It provides a dynamic analysis on the link between textile protection and poverty.
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  Are all labor regulations equal? Assessing the effects of job security, labor dispute and contract labor laws in India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007

  Are labour laws important constraints to income and job growth in the manufacturing and registered sectors of India? This paper studies the economic effects different types of labour laws, as well as of the increasing use of contract labour in India.Key findings include:
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  Innocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006

  This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.
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  False starts: the exclusion of Romani children from primary education in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Amnesty International, 2006

  The low school attendance rates and poor achievement levels of Romani children in the former Yugoslavia are often explained through the use of negative stereotypes about the Roma’s "way of life" or attitude towards education.
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  The intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007

  This paper argues that a person’s family background is likely to have crucial impacts on his or her later-life socio-economic achievement, regardless of the level of development of the country within which they live.
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  Savings for what?

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2007

  This article outlines how asset building can enhance microfinance programmes. It argues that without savings and productive assets it is difficult for the poor to achieve financial security, especially across generations. Instead the authors suggest that
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  Urban poverty and development in the 21st century: towards an inclusive and sustainable world

  Oxfam, 2006

  As of 2007, more people will live in cities than in rural areas, a proportion that is set to increase in years to come. In light of this, this paper argues that urban planning and urban development policies are crucial to the creation of an environmentally stable global society and discusses what can be done to promote more inclusive and sustainable cities.

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