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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, Household poverty, poverty inequality

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  Impact assessment of CFPR/TUP: a descriptive analysis based on 2002-2005 panel data

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006

  The Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction - Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/ TUP) programme was launched in 2002 with the vision of enhancing the sustainable economic and social capabilities of ultra poor households in Bangladesh.
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  Shifts in non-income welfare in South Africa: 1993-2004

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006

  The advent of 10 years of democratic rule in South Africa, together with the publication of recent survey sets, has sparked an interest amongst economists and development researchers. The emphasis of recent studies has been on changes in income poverty and inequality over a period of time within the 10 years of democracy.
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  Poverty dynamics, violent conflict and convergence in Rwanda

  Households in Conflict Network, 2006

  Civil war and genocide in 1990s Rwanda saw not only millions of lives lost, but a population left behind to establish a livelihood when facing serious obstacles.
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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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  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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  Impact assessment of poverty alleviation programmes from human rights perspective: a case study of Bolangir district, Orissa, India

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper applies the human rights-based approach to assess the impact of rural development programmes currently being undertaken by the government of India in the context of poverty alleviation.The paper begins with a discussion of the international human rights framework in the context of poverty alleviation.
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  Roars and whispers: gender and poverty: promises vs. action

  Social Watch, 2005

  This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and national reports from over 50 countries.The study shows that the international community has largely failed to live up to the commitments it adopted in 2000.
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  Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate and reproduce these inequalities.
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  Gender and Poverty in the context of human development, health, education and the MDG’s

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This background paper summarises the main issues around gender and poverty in southern Africa in the context of human development, health, education, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Draft of World Development Report 2006: equity and development

  World Bank, 2005

  The draft version of the World Development Report 2006 analyses the relationship between equity and development. Its key message states that equity is complementary, in some fundamental respects, to the pursuit of long-run prosperity.

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