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    Poverty and employability effects of workfare programs in Argentina

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2006
    Argentina's economic downturn of 11 percent in 2002 saw poverty and unemployment hit record numbers, with more than 50 percent of Argentine households living below the poverty line and a 20 percent unemployment rate. The government has responded by upgrading the existing workfare programmes by extended their benefits from 100,000 to 2 million people.
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    Poverty among women in Latin America: feminisation or over-representation?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    The concept of the feminisation of poverty (the extent and multi-faceted impacts of poverty on women) has become widely accepted among women's advocates. This paper questions the usefulness of resources invested in policies based on this concept.The prime objective of the paper is to investigate the occurrence of this feminisation.
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    Informality, gender and poverty: a global picture

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
    The devastating impact of extreme and seemingly endless poverty at the individual, household, community, national and regional level is an inescapable truism of the 21st century. The authors of this paper wonder how the populations of the developing world continue to be stuck in a poverty trap when roughly half are in employment. It doesn't appear to be very high on the poverty reduction agenda.
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    HIV/AIDS: the impact on poverty and inequality

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2006
    The devastating impacts of the global HIV and AIDS epidemic are well documented. In Africa, the disease is compounding the pre-existing problems of chronic poverty, thereby presenting a major obstacle to development. The decline in health status and life-expectancy in many countries is enormous.
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    Shocks and their consequences across and within households in rural Zimbabwe

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This brief looks at how households in Zimbabwe try to smooth consumption and assets. It looks at the empirical evidence on the churning of households in and out of poverty and the possibility that temporary shocks can have permanent consequencesThe research examines the impact of shocks by levels of asset holdings and assesses the impact on individual welfare.
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    Poverty and unemployment in South Africa

    National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2006
    Despite its status as a middle-income country, South Africa has significantly high levels of poverty and unemployment. This paper takes a critical look at the levels of poverty and unemployment in South Africa.
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    Pending issues in protection, productivity growth, and poverty reduction

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005
    This paper provides a synthesis of recent research on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) labour markets. Particular attention is paid to the impact of labour market legislation on poverty and equity.
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    Women's earning power and wellbeing

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    What goes on within households critically affects growth, income distribution and poverty in a country. Decisions within the household are assumed to be made in such a way that every individual within the household enjoys the same level of welfare - households are not, however, single decision-making entities.
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    Children and household savings in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    Understanding the role of children and family size on household savings behaviour is an important step in understanding the relationship between poverty, vulnerability and family size.Household savings are important indicators of family welfare on a number of levels including investment and income generation prospects and the protection these savings provide from income shortfalls.
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    The cultural construction of wellbeing: seeking healing in Bangladesh

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006
    The promotion of wellbeing as the ultimate goal of social, health and development policy is now well established amongst academics and policymakers alike. The relevance of culture is increasingly recognised in writings on both wellbeing and development. This paper aims to question the dominant ways that culture has figured in discussions of wellbeing and development.

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