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  Self-perceived health of ultra poor women: the effect of an inclusive development intervention

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006

  This paper reports on the health component of the BRAC project entitled "Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor" (CFPR/TUP). The paper examines changes in the self-reported health status of these ultra poor women in northern Bangladesh over a period of one and half years.
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  Human capital and unemployment in transition economies: the case of Kosova

  Internet Documents in Economics Access Service, 2005

  Human capital influences an individual's productivity and therefore earnings and it also explains to a great extent earning differentials amongst individuals in the labour market. As such, human capital influences the probability of becoming and remaining unemployed.
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  Intergenerational transmission of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  This bibliography is part of the chronic poverty research centre's (CPRC) foundation research theme "Empirical Methods for Studying Intergenerational Transmissions of Poverty" (IGT).
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  An Phu integrated community development project: final evaluation phase 1: 2000 - 2004

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This report presents the main findings of the final evaluation of the first phase of the An Phu integrated community development project.
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  Relationships, happiness and well-being: insights from Bangladesh

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  Why are people perceived as being 'happy' when their circumstances would often seem otherwise?
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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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  Chronic poverty in Uganda: the policy challenges

  Development Research and Training, Kampala, Uganda, 2005

  Chronic poverty traps individuals and households in severe and multi-dimensional poverty for many years, often being transmitted across generations.
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  "Hearing the voices of the poor": assigning poverty lines on the basis of local perceptions of poverty; a quantitative analysis of qualitative data from participatory wealth ranking in rural South Africa

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005

  The authors of this paper argue that participatory wealth ranking (PWR) may be a useful tool to generate a thorough appraisal of poverty on a scale suitable for the generation of statistics that can be used to inform policy.
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  The link between migration and poverty in Gauteng cities

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2005

  It is widely assumed that rural migrants arriving in South Africa’s cities create areas with a high concentration of poverty. This paper looks at the characteristics of urban areas which can be designated as poverty pockets – that is, localities in which the share of the population in poverty is significantly higher than what is found in the surrounding areas.

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