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  Testing the Kuznets Curve for countries and households using the body mass index

  Economic Science Research Institute, University of Costa Rica / Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2006

  This paper, prepared for the WIDER Conference on Advancing Health Equity, seeks to test the claim of the Kuznets model that inequality initially increases, and then declines again, as a country develops.
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  Poverty and exclusion, resources and relationships: theorising the links between economic and social development

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

  This paper investigates the nature of illbeing in a Latin American context, with particular reference to debates over the relationship between resource endowments and processes of social exclusion and inclusion.The paper summarises and critiques the social exclusion theory of the Peruvian economist Adolfo Figueroa - also known as the sigma model.
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  The determinants and consequences of chronic and transient poverty in Nepal

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  Policy designed to reduce both chronic and transient poverty needs to look at the root causes common to both. This study focuses on the impacts of wealth, human capital and ethnicity on both types of poverty.
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  Have pro-poor health policies improved the targeting of spending and the effective delivery of health care in South Africa?

  Bureau for Economic Research, South Africa, 2006

  Since the advent of the post-apartheid era in 1994, the South African health care system has undergone numerous radical policy changes. Free primary health care was introduced in 1996, and budget allocations have largely shifted to traditionally poorly endowed provinces.
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  Income poverty in 2004: a second engagement with the recent van der Berg et al figures (SDS Working Paper, No 47)

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2006

  Recent poverty estimates, made by acclaimed South African academics, have become accepted as truth by a government in need of some good news. This paper makes use of the Labour Force Surveys (LFS) for 2001 and 2004 to argue that the previous poverty estimates, commonly assumed to be accurate, are in fact too low.
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  Azerbaijan's household survey data: explaining why inequality is so low

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Azerbaijan has enjoyed one of the highest rates of economic growth among the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) since the late 1990s. Macroeconomic stability, rises in oil income and sound financial management have all contributed to the improved economic performance. The impact of numerous positive economic developments on wealth distribution and poverty remains largely unclear, however.
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  Employment status, security and the management of risk: a study of workers in Kwamsane, KwaZulu-Natal

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2006

  The changing nature of employment and labour patterns, on domestic and global scales, translates into rising economic and social insecurity for a great number of people. No more so, perhaps, than in the case of South Africa, given its long history of divisive employment and economic policies.
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  Local inequality and project choice: theory and evidence from Ecuador

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Should resource allocation decisions of anti-poverty programmes be taken at the local level, or should they remain centralised?
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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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