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  The black sheep of Rajasthan

  GRAIN, 2004

  The Raika are a large pastoralist community predominantly found in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, India, and are one of the largest groups of livestock herders in India, living in the semi-arid areas around the Thar Desert.
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  Donors and childhood poverty in sub Saharan Africa: approaches and aid mechanisms in Ghana and Tanzania

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper study examines how selected donors approach poverty affecting children, and how they use aid to tackle child poverty through support to particular activities and through the aid instruments.
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  Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.
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  The determinants of the health status in a developing country: results from the Columbian case

  Grupo de Investigaciones, Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, 2004

  This paper describes the health system of Colombia and attempts to analyse the determinants of ‘health capital’.
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  Group Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania

  Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2004

  This paper studies indigenous insurance institutions in Tanzania and Ethiopia. These highly structured organisations provide premium-based insurance for funerals, but are increasingly offering other types of insurance as well.
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  Food security, livelihoods and HIV/AIDS: a guide to the linkages, measurement and programming implications

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This paper from Save the Children is an introduction to the links between food security, livelihoods and HIV/AIDS and is aimed at managers and technical staff who work in either of these areas. The paper looks at factors to be considered when carrying out assessments and planning interventions, with a specific focus on the economic impacts of AIDS.
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  Effective distribution of social safety nets in Arab economies

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2002

  [Document in Arabic] The paper aims to analyse the social safety net system in order to clarify the relationship between income distribution, growth and poverty in Arab economies. It attempts to determine the distributive pattern of financial aid provided by social safety net systems for the different strata of society.
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  The goal of workers’ welfare and policy challenges

  Strengthening Participatory Organization, Pakistan, 2003

  Pakistan’s recent Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) has been criticised for failing to mention any policies for redundant industrial labour.
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  International trade, livelihoods and food security in developing countries

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the links between trade reform and food security.The paper also proposes data collection methods for countries wishing to target livelihood activities and food security. The paper makes the following main points:
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  Tackling childhood poverty in Central and East Asia: donor approaches in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2003

  This report examines how donors approach poverty among children and young people in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.

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