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  The human costs of the 2015 ‘business-as-usual’ scenario

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  This report provides a preliminary assessment of the potential scale of current trends towards meeting the MDGs. It draws on a global trend projection analysis that uses country-by-country data for the period 1990-2003 to build global and regional aggregates that capture changes in the distribution of poverty, child mortality, children out of school and other indicators.
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  Mekong Delta poverty analysis

  Australian Agency for International Development, 2004

  This report aims to shed light on the situation of poverty in the Mekong Delta. The analysis within this report identifies a number of groups prone to particular disadvantage, namely:landlessness - there is significant and increasing land scarcity in the Delta.
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  Theorising the links between social and economic development: the sigma economy model of Adolfo Figueroa

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2003

  The sigma economy model of Adolfo Figueroa explains how labour market segmentation and inequality is perpetuated through exclusion in the provision of formal education, financial services and social protection. This article highlights the originality of the sigma model by contrasting it with dual economy models in the tradition of Arthur Lewis, which assume eventual labour market integration.
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  Toward sustainable and equitable development: sector strategies for Latin America and the Caribbean, an overview

  2004

  The IDB’s focus on fostering growth, improving social conditions and reducing poverty has led it to reassess how the institution can best invest in the region’s sustainable and equitable development.
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  Gender and budget 2005

  International Budget Partnership, 2005

  This paper examines gender equity within the 2005 South African budget. The authors highlight that women and girls are often most vulnerable to conditions like HIV/AIDS and poverty, but that programmes to address these conditions will fail without a significant earmarking of funds.
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  Accountability upside down: gender equality in a partnership for poverty eradication

  Social Watch, 2005

  This report argues that the ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) must be linked to the review process of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as it provides a major input into the that process.
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  Targeting in health: a summary of the evidence

  Poverty and Health, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000

  This paper, published by the World Bank, examines attempts to focus health sector development programmes on the poor.
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  The polyscopic landscape of poverty research: “state of the art” in international poverty research

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2005

  This paper discusses major trends in poverty research and identifies promising research results that might form a useful base for further research on causes, processes and formations of poverty in the South.The report consists of four parts:a polyscopic landscape of poverty research, outlining the directions that some of the major actors in poverty research have taken and points to some
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  Poverty targeting in Asia: country experience of India

  ADB Institute, 2004

  This paper addresses two broad questions related to poverty alleviation in India: (1) how much in aggregate does the government spend on poverty targeted programmes? and, (2) how effective have these programs been in targeting the poor and in alleviating poverty?
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  A quantitative assessment of social exclusion in Pakistan

  Oxford Policy Management, 2005

  This briefing note aims to quantify the relationship between social exclusion and poverty in Pakistan. It offers a quantitative description and analysis of social exclusion in Pakistan through a literature review of all forms of exclusion and the analysis of datasets with information on socially excluded groups.

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