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  Reducing urban violence in developing countries

  Brookings Institution, 2006

  This brief presents an integrated framework for understanding urban violence. It is informed by the findings from participatory urban appraisals of violence undertaken in 18 poor urban communities in Colombia and Guatemala.The paper argues that evidence from Latin America challenges the popular stereotype that poverty is the main cause of violence.
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  Building homes, changing official approaches: the work of urban poor organizations and their federations and their contributions to meeting the Millennium Development Goals in urban areas

  Human Settlements Programme, 2006

  This paper discusses the current and potential role of community-driven initiatives to significantly improve the lives of slum dwellers and squatters at local, city and national levels.
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  Chronic poverty in urban areas

  Human Settlements Programme, 2005

  This briefing paper focuses on the needs of the chronic poor in urban areas.
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  Testing the Kuznets Curve for countries and households using the body mass index

  Economic Science Research Institute, University of Costa Rica / Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2006

  This paper, prepared for the WIDER Conference on Advancing Health Equity, seeks to test the claim of the Kuznets model that inequality initially increases, and then declines again, as a country develops.
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  The post-apartheid evolution of earnings inequality in South Africa, 1995-2004

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Understanding earnings inequality is a major part in understanding the inequality in total income in South Africa, where earnings constitute the main component of income.
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  Human development report 2006: Beyond Scarcity - Power, poverty and the global water crisis

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006

  For 2006 the UN's Human Development Report focuses on global access to clean water and sanitation.
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  Membership based organizations of the poor: concepts, experience and policy

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2006

  Central to achieving equitable growth and poverty reduction are organisations whose governance structures are accountable to the poor, and therefore respond to their needs and aspirations. This paper focuses on Membership Based Organisations of the Poor (MBOPs). It outlines structures and activities that characterise MBOPs, and it identifies determinants of their success and failure.
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  Why has unemployment risen in the new South Africa?

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2006

  This paper documents the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. The paper describes the likely causes of this increase and analyses whether the increase in employment is due to structural changes in the economy or to negative shocks.The authors find that structural changes in the economy are an important characteristic of unemployment in South Africa.
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  The determinants and consequences of chronic and transient poverty in Nepal

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  Policy designed to reduce both chronic and transient poverty needs to look at the root causes common to both. This study focuses on the impacts of wealth, human capital and ethnicity on both types of poverty.
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  Labor segmentation and poverty

  Making markets work better for the poor, 2006

  Since labour is the main asset of the poor, how the poor take advantage of the opportunity and benefit from growth depend critically on the functioning of the labour markets. This paper determines the extent and main causes of labour market segmentation in Viet Nam, and thus its impact on poverty.The study reveals some strong evidence of labour market segmentation.

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