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The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005
UN, 2005This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.DocumentInfluence of social institutions on inequality in China
Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005This study analyses the impact of changes in social institutions, i.e. in the informal and formal social security system, on income inequality in China.DocumentA rights-based approach to poverty: the South African experience
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005This paper, presented at the International Conference: The Many Dimensions of Poverty (Brazil, 2005) uses a rights-based approach to address the problems of poverty.DocumentA framework for scaling up poverty reduction, with illustrations from South Asia
Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2005This paper develops a framework for thinking about the policy challenge of scaling up small scale interventions - both governmental and non-governmental - that address poverty reduction. The framework sees scaling up as addressing different components of market failure, government failure and civil society failure.DocumentInclusion and exclusion in South Asia: the role of religion
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004This paper, presented for the 2004 Human Development Report, argues that the building of inclusive societies requires the secularity of states. All other forms of state are exclusionary, particularly theocracies.DocumentSchool feeding programs: why they should be scaled up now
United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2004This brief discusses the effectiveness of school feeding programmes, how they address constraints to education, and how they can be scaled up.The paper argues that in-school feeding reduces short-term hunger; they provide micronutrient-fortified meals early in the school day; food can be used in several ways to address access issues; it can address health and nutrition needs of school-age childDocumentEmerging trends in urban livelihoods
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005This paper is part of a larger research project that aims to identify indicators of upward or downward movements in the continuum of poverty in Afghanistan, and to isolate characteristics and determinants that shape and differentiate various situations of the urban poor in Afghanistan.DocumentCaste discrimination and the private sector
India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.DocumentAsset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?
World Bank, 2005This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate and reproduce these inequalities.DocumentMedium-term effects of the Oportunidades program package, including nutrition, on education of rural children age 0-8 in 1997
Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Evaluation Survey.The main findings include: the age group 3 to 5 in 1997 most likely did not benefit from the early nutritional intervention and also by 2003Pages