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    Do poverty traps exist?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2014
    There are (at least) three competing views of why poverty can be so persistent.
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    Rapid desk-based evidence search to support a business case for support to Afghanistan’s transport, energy and water infrastructure sectors

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This HelpDesk Report gives an overview on the evidence to found to support a business case for supporting Afghanistan’s water, transport and energy infrastructure sectors. The report contains:
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    The shadow economy in conflict-affected countries

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2013
    Targeting the shadow economy in conflict-affected contexts is a complex task about which little is known. This rapid literature review uncovered little focusing on interventions aimed at incentivising war profiteers to join the legal economy and even less on leveraging the positive social function that shadow economies can provide to conflict-affected populations.
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    Asset values: why are some households doing better than others?

    Chars Livelihoods Programme, 2014
    Research shows that two groups of previous participants of Chars Livelihoods Programme in Bangladesh (CLP) have substantially different amounts of assets. One group built up significant assets while the other group did not, and, in some cases, fell back to being assetless.
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    Social gains in the balance: a fiscal policy challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

    World Bank, 2014
    The proportion of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region's 600 million people living in extreme poverty, defined in the region as life on less than $2.50 a day, was cut in half between 2003 and 2012 to 12.3 percent.
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    The dynamic south, economic development and inclusive growth: the challenges ahead

    The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, 2013
    High wage inequality is a major policy concern in Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Recent literature points to the need to examine the role of minimum wages or unionisation and their links to inequality within labour markets and the role of social protection.
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    Inequality, economic growth, and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

    African Development Bank, 2013
    The wave of protests and unrests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2011 has continued in different forms. In addition to demands for more economic and political inclusion, the protests had been largely sparked by a refusal to any longer tolerate the gross socio-economic inequality perpetuated by long-entrenched “elite” in power.
  • Organisation

    Grail Research

    Market research organisation. Grail Research has offices in Massachusetts, New York, Beijing, Johannesburg, and Noida, a satellite town adjoining the Indian capital, New Delhi.
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    Provision and improvement of housing for the poor

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    The purpose of the Topic Guide is to stimulate thinking about the ways in which investment in the process of housing can benefit the poor.
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    TI-UP Resource Centre

    TI-UP is a key resource centre providing a one-stop shop for knowledge in the combined fields of Technology, Infrastructure and Urban Planning, serving The UK's Department for International Developmen

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