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    The burden of disease among the global poor

    The Lancet, 1999
    It is widely recognised that non-communicable diseases are on the rise across populations globally. But does this reflect the health concerns of the very poorest? This paper, by authors from the World Bank and the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania, compares the burden of disease suffered by the rich compared to that of the poor.
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    Measuring health and poverty: a review of approaches to identifying the poor

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2002
    Although poverty reduction is the overall goal, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include improving health and other social development objectives. But the health MDGs need to be more explicit about taking poverty into account, if the health of the poor is to be improved.
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    State of world population 2002: people, poverty and possibilities

    United Nations Population Fund, 2002
    Pointing to a “population effect” on economic growth, this report cites new data showing that since 1970, developing countries with lower fertility and slower population growth have seen higher productivity, more savings and more productive investment. They have registered faster economic growth.Investments in health and education, and gender equality are vital to this effect.
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    Dying for change: poor people’s experience of health and ill-health

    World Bank, 2001
    What can we learn from the World Bank’s (WB) Voices of the Poor study that relates specifically to poor people’s experiences of health and ill-health? This study draws on the 3 volumes published as a result of the WB’s research, and relates a variety of perspectives and experiences taken from people in 23 different countries.
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    Child mortality in Maharashtra, India

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002
    This article examines official statistics on child mortality rates in Maharashtra, and compares them against an initial set of findings on child and infant mortality that also measured extent and causes of under-reporting of child deaths.
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    Health in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): an introduction and early experience

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2002
    As Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) have become a prominent development tool it is important to consider how health is addressed in the PRSP process. This is examined in an issues paper produced on behalf the UK Department for International Development (DFID) by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC).
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    Impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector in Swaziland: the demographic, social and economicimpact on subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and business

    TAT Health Services, Swaziland, 2002
    This study attempts to determine the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector, obtain vital information on vulnerability of agriculture and the private sector to HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality; and identify strategies that can be implemented to prevent and control the epidemic. A key finding of the paper is that HIV/AIDS has not affected the profitability and product
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    Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

    Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
    Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on Southern Africa’s children: poverty of planning and planning of poverty

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
    This paper takes an approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Southern Africa region based on a 'high road' and a 'low road' response to HIV/AIDS by Save The Children UK. His main argument is based on the fact that in the absence of good planning, the toll of HIV/AIDS on the Southern Africa Development Community will result in considerable poverty and misery.
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    Becoming poverty-focused: implications for health actors

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000
    If health actors say that their work has poverty reduction at its core, what implications does this have for health sector interventions?

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