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  Winners and losers as Indian villages enter the wider economy

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The opening up of the village economy is irrevocably altering rural livelihoods in village India. Market forces are drawing many rural households out of relative poverty. However, the transformation of patron-client relationships into fluid business transactions has caused simultaneous movements into and out of poverty.
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  Coping with conflict: livelihoods and development in Nepal

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Worsening conflict in Nepal is having a detrimental effect on the lives of the rural poor. As instability undermines existing policies aimed at improving rural livelihoods, development agencies have been slow to respond to the realities of working in a conflict situation. New research proposes best practice guidelines for agencies operating in similar contexts.
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  Drought and farmers’ coping strategies in poverty-afflicted rural China

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper explores the nature of drought risks in southern China through estimating the cost of drought and gaining some insight into farmers’ coping strategies.
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  The role of fairness concerns in social protection and poverty reduction (Draft)

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This article studies differing notions of fairness between external and local actors and how they affect social protection systems and poverty reduction initiatives. Within social protection systems, the authors define effectiveness as being related to targeting, while within poverty reduction initiatives, effectiveness relates to the extent to which relations are maintainted with poor people.
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  Shocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  This paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. It also investigates the circumstances under which poor households are pushed into poverty traps from which recovery is not possible.
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  Buffering inequalities: the safety net of extended families in Cameroon

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2004

  This paper investigates the role of extended family systems in buffering socioeconomic inequality in African societies, notably through fosterage of children across nuclear family units. Previous study has raised concerns that this support system would be likely to collapse under pressures of globalisation and economic crises.
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  Drivers of escape and descent: changing household fortunes in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004

  This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty.
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  Can conditional cash transfer programs improve social risk management?: lessons for education and child labor outcomes

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines whether or not shocks adversely affect child schooling and labour choices, and to what extent Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes can help mitigate these effects.
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  Chronic poverty report 2004-2005

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This major report from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) examines what chronic poverty is and why it matters, who the chronically poor are, where they live, what causes poverty to be persistent and what should be done about it.
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  More for the poor is less for the poor: the politics of targeting

  World Bank, 1997

  This World Bank study assesses the welfare properties of targeted income support transfers when a basic political feasibility condition is imposed on the levels of targeting and taxation. Both economists and political scientists have long recognised the possibility that targeting could undermine political support for redistribution and hence reduce the available budget.

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