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    Using change rankings to understand poverty dynamics: examining the impact of CFPR/TUP from community perspective

    Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006
    Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income-expenditure surveys can overestimate transient poverty and underestimate the persistence of poverty, especially for the poorest.This study makes use of an alternative approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a livelihoods programme for the ultra-poor delivered by BRAC in Bangladesh.
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    Poverty and policy in post-apartheid South Africa

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006
    The end of apartheid heralded the beginning of an era free of the discrimination, inequity and injustice that had long pervaded the South African political economy. The chapters in this book examine the welfare shifts in post-apartheid society.The authors contextualise the paper by looking back to the sources of and constraints on long-term growth from as early as the 1970s.
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    Chronic poverty and the environment: a vulnerability perspective

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    The relationships between poverty and the environment are highly contested. This paper highlights some of the key thinking on poverty-environment relationships, and introduces a framework focusing on the importance of environmental vulnerability in explaining poverty dynamics. The relationship between environmental sustainability and poverty is two-fold.
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    Does Chronic Poverty Matter in Uganda?

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    This policy brief describes the circumstances of the chronically poor in Uganda, and offers a range of suggestions on programmes and areas for attention to support the Ugandan government's social protection agenda.The paper specifically notes the need for efforts to target very poor households.
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    A note on measuring unemployment

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    In developing countries, official measures of unemployment are often low due to the extent of informal employment , whose workers consider themselves to be employed.
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    Impact assessment of CFPR/TUP: a descriptive analysis based on 2002-2005 panel data

    Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006
    The Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction - Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/ TUP) programme was launched in 2002 with the vision of enhancing the sustainable economic and social capabilities of ultra poor households in Bangladesh.
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    Shifts in non-income welfare in South Africa: 1993-2004

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006
    The advent of 10 years of democratic rule in South Africa, together with the publication of recent survey sets, has sparked an interest amongst economists and development researchers. The emphasis of recent studies has been on changes in income poverty and inequality over a period of time within the 10 years of democracy.
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    Remittances, poverty reduction and the informalisation of household wellbeing in Zimbabwe

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006
    The term "Brain Drain" seems to be the latest development catch phrase. Cited in journalism and academia alike, its meaning is somewhat ambiguous.
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    Pathways out of rural poverty and the effectiveness of poverty targeting

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006
    The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) foremost goal is the eradication of poverty in Asia and the Pacific. In order to achieve this, the Bank has undertaken a number of programmes directly targeting the poor.
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    Poverty dynamics, violent conflict and convergence in Rwanda

    Households in Conflict Network, 2006
    Civil war and genocide in 1990s Rwanda saw not only millions of lives lost, but a population left behind to establish a livelihood when facing serious obstacles.

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