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  Rural Reconstruction Nepal

  Rural Reconstruction Nepal's (RRN) strategic objective is to empower people through:
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  Structures, regimes and wellbeing

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007

  This paper explains the approach taken by the Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) ESRC research group to explore the ways in which wider societal structures manifest themselves in the social and cultural construction of wellbeing.
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  Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: impacts on inequality

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  This working paper examines whether Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
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  Dimensions of discrimination in India: a shadow report to 15th to 19th periodic reports (CERD/C/IND/19) of India to UN CERD Committee

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2007

  This paper documents the monitoring of India’s compliance with its obligations as a State party to various international human rights treaties.
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  Urban poverty and development in the 21st century: towards an inclusive and sustainable world

  Oxfam, 2006

  As of 2007, more people will live in cities than in rural areas, a proportion that is set to increase in years to come. In light of this, this paper argues that urban planning and urban development policies are crucial to the creation of an environmentally stable global society and discusses what can be done to promote more inclusive and sustainable cities.
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  Horizontal inequalities in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: issues and policies

  Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007

  This paper analyses the nature and extent of prevailing Horizontal Inequalities (HIs). The research particularly focuses on what can be done to reduce actual and perceived HIs in three West African countries, Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The authors discuss a number of specific findings in each case and then present overall findings. Some of these include:
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  The impact of conflict on the intergenerational transmission of chronic poverty: an overview and annotated bibliography

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007

  This overview and annotated bibliography reviews the multi-disciplinary literature on the impact of conflict on intergenerational transmission (IGT) of chronic poverty.It addresses the following issues:the mechanisms by which conflict causes povertythe duration of the resulting povertythe likelihood that poverty will be transmitted from one generation to anotherthe types of
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  Learning divides: ten policy questions about the performance and equity of schools and schooling systems

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006

  While international data show that socioeconomic status (SES) strongly influences student outcomes, some countries have done better than others at mitigating this effect.
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  Corruption and the inequality trap in Africa

  Afrobarometer, 2007

  What is the relationship between inequality and corruption? Using evidence from Africa, this paper argues that these two problems create an “inequality trap”, in which high inequality leads to low trust and corruption, which then leads back to higher levels of inequality.
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  Understanding regional poverty and inequality trends in China: methodological issues and empirical findings

  Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, 2007

  The March 2007 special issue of the Review of Income and Wealth focuses on regional poverty and inequality in China. This first paper provides a time profile of China's regional inequality by calculating a Theil-L index which suggests the need to tackle the urban-rural gap as a priority over regional gaps.

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