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  Political corruption in India's below the poverty line exercise: grassroots perspectives on BPL in perpetuating poverty and social exclusion

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  The proportion of the Indian population estimated to be below the poverty line (BPL) is a mere 25%, according to official statistics. This reflects well on the governments efforts at poverty reduction.
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  The poverty macroeconomic policy nexus: some short-run analytics

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper looks at the impact of macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes in a small open economy.The paper uses an analytical short-run macroeconomic model from which sharp policy implications can be drawn. The authors draw on the cases of Latin American and East Asian economies to demonstrate that economic expansion is invariably a result of financ
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  A normal relationship?: poverty, growth, and inequality

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Poverty reduction has, in recent years, been the foremost goal of development policy worldwide, and a rapidly expanding literature has sought to clarify whether poverty changes are driven mainly by growth in aggregate income or by growth in the relative incomes of the poor.
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  Tracking resource and policy impact: incorporating millennium development goals and indicators and poverty reduction strategy paper monitoring across sectors

  Statistics Norway, 2004

  The main aim of this report is to show how a statistical system for tracking resource and policy impact could be designed and implemented.
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  Governance, democracy and poverty reduction: lessons drawn from household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

  Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005

  In light of the flaws in the structural adjustment agenda, both domestic and international economic policies are now subject to increasing scrutiny.
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  Poor people and democratic citizenship in Africa

  Afrobarometer, 2006

  A democratic political regime has long been regarded as an attribute of high-income, industrialized economies.
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  Targeting effectiveness of CFPR/TUP in scale-up environment

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006

  Experience from many development interventions shows that unless the programme is designed and targetted specifically for the poorest, they will either be missed or they will exclude themselves.
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  The impact of trade liberalisation on household welfare and poverty in India

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2006

  With the 1990s heralding the onset of the structural adjustment era, the Indian economy underwent major policy changes. The biggest challenge of India’s economic reform programme has been the liberalisation of its trade sector.
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  Getting real about inequality: evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Differences in spending patterns across households, together with differences in the evolution of prices across goods, imply that different households face different inflation rates.
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  Headcount poverty comparisons

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This paper assesses the advantages and disadvantages of two connected poverty measures - the headcount ratio, which is the proportion of the poor in the total population, and the aggregate headcount, which is the total absolute number of the poor. These methods often provide contrary poverty rankings.

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