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  Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate and reproduce these inequalities.
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  Medium-term effects of the Oportunidades program package, including nutrition, on education of rural children age 0-8 in 1997

  Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005

  This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Evaluation Survey.The main findings include: the age group 3 to 5 in 1997 most likely did not benefit from the early nutritional intervention and also by 2003
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  Herding on the brink: towards a global survey of pastoral communities and conflict

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  Examining the linkages between pastoralism and conflict using a sustainable livelihoods-based conflict analysis, this paper looks at the challenges posed by conflict in pastoral regions.
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  How does working as a child affect wage, income and poverty as an adult?

  World Bank, 2005

  This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour.
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  Why is mobility in India so low?: social insurance, inequality, and growth

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual insurance to their members.
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  Lessons offered by Latin American cash transfer programmes, Mexico’s Oportunidades and Nicaragua’s SPN: implications for African countries

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2005

  This paper, published by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre, discusses and compares cash transfer programmes intended to tackle poverty in Mexico, Nicaragua, Zambia and Malawi. The paper argues that transferring cash to families has many advantages: it is simple to administer and gives the families freedom to decide how to spend the money.
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  Health and poverty linkages: perspectives of the chronically poor

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2005

  This paper from the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre maps out the linkages between ill health and chronic or long-term poverty, drawing from perspectives of the poor. It identifies factors that underpin a descent into chronic poverty, including the type, nature and timing of health shocks, who is primarily affected, types of households, and costs of treatment.
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  Policy paper on social protection

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This paper, produced by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) for DFID, examines mechanisms for social protection in low income countries, clarifying the meaning of social protection and its role within poverty reduction.
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  Street vendors in Asia: a review

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  This study reviews research on street vendors in Asia in order to assess the extent of street vending across x Asian countries. It also collates information on the unionisation of the vendors as well as other organisations, comprising CBOs, NGOs & self help groups, that work for their welfare.
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  Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.

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