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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Gender, Poverty

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  The missing link in growth and sustainable development: closing the gender gap

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004

  This issues paper discusses how to take gender into consideration when addressing growth issues and how to close the gender gap in African development.
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  The informal economy: fact finding study

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  This study provides an overview of the characteristics of the informal economy in developing countries, identifies reasons for the significance of the informal economy, and provides recommendations for SIDA on how to address the issues raised through its development programmes.The paper emphasises that the informal economy needs to be better understood, by both governments and donors, because i
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  Reality and analysis: personal and technical reflections on the working lives of six women

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  A group of development analysts – researchers, activists, and practitioners - engaged in an unusual exercise in early 2004. They had a dialogue about labour market, trade and poverty issues, but they preceded the dialogue with exposure to the realities of the lives of six host women in Gujarat: Dohiben, Kalavatiben, Kamlaben, Kesarben, Leelaben and Ushaben.
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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW).
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  Trickle-down, trickle-up or puddle?: participatory value chains analysis for pro-poor enterprise development

  Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service, 2003

  This paper provides a practical guide to value chains analysis, and how it can be used as part of participatory processes for strategic learning and ongoing accountability within and between enterprise sectors.
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  Gender mainstreaming in poverty eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This book explores the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first one of halving world poverty by 2015.
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  Jessore and Tongi: urban livelihoods in the slums

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This profile reports on surveys conducted by IFPRI and CARE in an examination of urban poverty in different settings in Bangladesh.
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  Failing women, sustaining poverty: gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

  Christian Aid, 2003

  More than half the poor citizens of heavily indebted developing countries are women.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  A review of development approaches to poverty reduction: a gender perspective

  Eldis Document Store, 2002

  This paper links poverty to gender inequality.

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