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  Iraq living conditions survey 2004; volume II: analytical report

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  This book reports on the results of the Iraq Living Conditions Survey (ILCS) survey and analyses the living conditions in Iraq as they were approximately one year after the fall of the Saddam Hussein's regime.
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  The welfare effects of farm household activity choices in post-war Mozambique

  Households in Conflict Network, 2004

  This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war-affected developing country, and identifies pro-poor reconstruction policies. The study uses household survey data from Mozambique and controls for the endogeneity of activity choices with instrumental variables.
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  Understanding urban chronic poverty: crossing the qualitative

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2005

  This paper summarises the recent quantitative and qualitative evidence on urban poverty in Ethiopia. The author contends that the analysis of poverty dynamics is difficult and has been neglected, hence most of the studies reviewed here focus on urban poverty at a particular point in time.
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  Gender and energy for sustainable development: a toolkit and resource guide

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2004

  This toolkit and resource guide is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well as other types of development programmes.The guide outlines the linkages between gender and energy in the context of sustainable development and provides suggestions and materials on how to
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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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  Gendered analysis of the working for water programme: a case study of the Tsitsikama Working for Water project

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  Governments have attempted to mitigate the effects of high unemployment in various ways, particularly through targeted interventions such as public works programmes. The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) of the South African government aims to address unemployment by creating labour intensive jobs through government expenditure.
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  Citizens, politicians and providers: the Latin American experience with service delivery reform

  World Bank, 2005

  This report argues that inspite of an increase in primary school enrollment rate, life expectancy and provision of water services, the countries' performance in service delivery has been inadequate, coupled with an inability to eliminate inequalities apparent in many basic indicators.
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  Female headed households in Tigray, Ethiopia; a study review

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004

  This study aims to document the existence of studies and available information sources relevant to increasing knowledge and understanding about the situation of female headed households in Tigray, Ethiopia, with a particular focus on household livelihoods.Specific objectives were to:Produce a report summarising and synthesising information gatheredwithin currently available informat
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  Civil society perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Programme, 2004

  This compilation of short articles explores four primary topics relating to civil society perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals:women's movements and gender perspectives on the Millennium Development Goalsimplications of some WTO rules on the realisation of the MDGsMDGs: linking poverty and environment for sustainable and equitable growthindigenous peoples and the Mi
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  Informalisation and women's workforce participation: a consideration of recent trends in India

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  In mainstream discussion, the importance of women's work generally receives marginal treatment simply because so much of the work regularly performed is "invisible" in terms of market criteria or even in terms of socially dominant perceptions of what constitutes "work". This obviously matters, because it leads to the social underestimation of women's productive contribution.

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