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  Churning on the margins: how the poor respond to drought in south Wollo, Ethiopia

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines the degree to which the drought of 1999-2000 affected poverty trends in rural Ethiopia, and looks at how strategies in the coping and/or recovery period can assist drought-affected households.
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  Building social capital for the ultra poor: challenges and achievements

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2005

  BRAC introduced a programme designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called, "Challenging the frontier of poverty reduction: targeting ultra poor (TUP)" programme in 2002. The programme consists of economic and health inputs designed to create sustainable livelihoods. However, it was felt that the assets they received might be vulnerable to theft and damage.
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  Internal migration to the Gauteng Province, South Africa

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2005

  This study aims to quantify and describe migration to and migrant labour in Gauteng Province, South Africa, with a view to gaining some insight into special challenges that in-migrant households may present.
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  Online database of World Bank Impact evaluations

  World Bank, 2005

  The Poverty Analysis, Monitoring and Impact Evaluation Thematic Group in the World Bank has launched a new online-searchable database of impact evaluations. This database provides access to impact evaluations of World Bank-supported interventions and impact evaluations undertaken by World Bank staff over the past few years.
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  Drought risk and development policy

  Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2005

  The principle objective of this discussion paper is to propose that drought should be managed as an aspect of development, as opposed to simply a natural hazard.
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  Inequality in Latin America: processes and inputs

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2003

  This paper analyses the multidimensional aspects of inequality by discussing the concept of inequality along three types of processes:economic, social, and political, and three different dimensions: regional, rural/urban and across population groups.
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  Labor market regulations and income inequality: evidence for a panel of countries

  2004

  This paper presents evidence on the impact of labour regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labour institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Silanes and Shleifer, 2003) and different cross-section and panel data analysis techniques for a sample of 121 countries over the 1970-2000 period.The authors find:de
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  A portrait of child poverty in Germany

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty.
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  Pro-poor growth: a review of what we know (and of what we don't)

  World Bank, 2004

  Over the past few years pro-poor growth has become a very popular topic among development practitioners. This despite the fact that in many cases we do not even know what other people mean by pro-poor growth. Is it growth that leads to income redistribution or instead growth that leads to poverty reduction? More importantly, what do we know (and what we don't) about how we can achieve it?
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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.

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