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  Developing poverty assessment tools project: note on assessment and improvement of tool accuracy

  Poverty Assessment Tools, 2005

  This note summarizes key issues that emerge in refining and evaluating the accuracy of poverty assessment tools. This is in relation to identifying households living in extreme poverty within USAID partner countries. Through a discussion of differing approaches it emphasises the need to develop techniques that increase accuracy within measurement tools.
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  Identifying and understanding chronic poverty: beyond monetary measures

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper calls for a greater focus on chronic poverty in analysis and policy debate, that is based on a broader concept. It discusses current approaches to the analysis of chronic poverty and poverty dynamics, as well as limitations of monetary measures.
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  Subjective and objective well-being in relation to economic inputs: puzzles and responses

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004

  Well-being as a concept embraces both subjective well-being (SWB) and objective well-being (OWB). This paper confronts the problem that, up to now, income has not been satisfactorily correlated with either. Furthermore, OWB is not closely related to SWB.
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  Politics: the missing link in the G8 Africa debate

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This short position paper proposes that the political dimension of Africa’s development is the most important and the least well treated in this year’s G8 debate.
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  Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.
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  Happiness and the sad topics of anthropology

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2005

  This paper proposes a new set of engagements between anthropology and other disciplines towards the interpretation and research of happiness.
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  The loan contraction process in Africa: making loans work for the poor; the case of Tanzania

  African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2004

  This paper examines how external loans can be better utilised in order to benefit the poor. The study sought to identify existing bottlenecks that continue to perpetuate the debt crisis within the institutional and legislative framework of Tanzania.
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  In Focus: The challenge of poverty

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2004

  This bulletin from the International Poverty Centre addresses various topics related to poverty, ranging from the relationship between female household headship and poverty to the challenges posed by urban slums, the persistence of poverty traps and gaps in maternal mortality between rich and poor women, and continuing shortfalls in access to basic water and sanitation facilities for the world's p
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  Conceptual ferment in poverty and inequality measurement: the view from economics and sociology

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  This article explores the main conceptual tools that are applied in economics and sociology and are used to make sense of inequality and poverty. It discusses research problems being pursued independently by sociologists and economists but that stem from very similar underlying interests and might therefore be usefully pursued in collaboration.
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  Advance social watch report 2005: unkept promises

  Social Watch, 2005

  This paper reports on the findings of the national Social Watch coalitions in over 60 countries. The analysis of the available indicators coincide: the promises have remained largely unmet. Unless substantial changes are put in place soon, the MDG targets set for the year 2015 will not be achieved.

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