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    Poverty and employability effects of workfare programs in Argentina

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2006
    Argentina's economic downturn of 11 percent in 2002 saw poverty and unemployment hit record numbers, with more than 50 percent of Argentine households living below the poverty line and a 20 percent unemployment rate. The government has responded by upgrading the existing workfare programmes by extended their benefits from 100,000 to 2 million people.
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    Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005
    In this paper the authors document and analyse the evolution of GDP per capita in the Northeast and in other regions of Brazil. They use measures of GDP per capita at the municipality level computed in 1970 and 1996.
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    Country study: an employment-targeted economic programme for South Africa

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    At the 2003 Growth and Development Summit, South African President Thabo Mbeki singled out "more jobs, better jobs and decent work for all" as one of the country's key economic challenges. With the pledge to cut the unemployment rate by half by 2014, difficult policy changes are inevitable.
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    Has world poverty really fallen during the 1990s?

    Social Science Research Network, 2005
    This paper evaluates the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen during the 1990s in light of alternative assumptions about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the developing world.Using two international poverty lines ($1.08/day and $2.15/day 1993 PPP) the authors argue that under many assumptions, the developing w
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    Poverty among women in Latin America: feminisation or over-representation?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    The concept of the feminisation of poverty (the extent and multi-faceted impacts of poverty on women) has become widely accepted among women's advocates. This paper questions the usefulness of resources invested in policies based on this concept.The prime objective of the paper is to investigate the occurrence of this feminisation.
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    Representing poverty and attacking representations: perspectives on poverty from social anthropology

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2006
    The academic studies of international development and that of anthropology have historically been mutually exclusive, with one researched in isolation to the other.
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    How costly is it to achieve the Millenium Development Goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    The ever-rising rate of global poverty is among the foremost concerns of international development and humanitarian organisations. With populations looking to rise well into the future, all indications show that the number of people living in poverty can be expected to continue rising.
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    Integrated urban upgrading for the poor: the experience of Ribeira Azul, Salvador, Brazil

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006
    An integrated urban upgrading initiative was implemented the low-income neighbourhood of Ribeira Azul in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1999. The program combines infrastructure and social interventions and is thought to have had a positive impact on living conditions. Now forming the basis for the State's urban development strategy, the similar programmes are to be implemented state-wide.
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    Report on CPRC workshop on panel surveys and life history methods

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    This paper presents the outcomes of a workshop in which Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) members and other researchers shared experiences of combining quantitative and qualitative methods for the study of chronic poverty.
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    Constructing an international poverty assessment tool: a methodological note with illustrations

    Poverty Assessment Tools, 2006
    The IRIS/USAID project on developing poverty assessment tools has collected data on the poverty status of 12 low-income countries, adapting measurement tools for country-specific use.

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