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  The role of participation and empowerment in income and poverty dynamics in Indonesia 1993-2000

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This study aims to assess the effects on changes in income and poverty reduction on the basis of belonging to a democratic decision making community, or belonging to a society with a higher degree of participation.To illustrate this, the authors construct an empowerment index and one participation index, and use these to test their assumptions.
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  A macro policy for poverty eradication through structural change

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper aims to shift the focus of development policy by relocating poverty eradication processes within the growth sector. It also emphasises the need to empower the poor to participate in the market on equitable terms as the privileged segments of society.
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  Non-contributory pensions and poverty reduction in Brazil and South Africa

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper considers the incidence of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using comparable datasets the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes.
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  Forgotten by the highway: globalisation, adverse incorporation and chronic poverty in a commercial farming district of South Africa

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper explores the nature and dynamics of poverty in the context of continued and relatively sustained economic development and growth in a Western Cape district (Ceres), one of the centres of South Africa’s deciduous fruit export industry.
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  Drought and farmers’ coping strategies in poverty-afflicted rural China

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper explores the nature of drought risks in southern China through estimating the cost of drought and gaining some insight into farmers’ coping strategies.
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  The role of fairness concerns in social protection and poverty reduction (Draft)

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This article studies differing notions of fairness between external and local actors and how they affect social protection systems and poverty reduction initiatives. Within social protection systems, the authors define effectiveness as being related to targeting, while within poverty reduction initiatives, effectiveness relates to the extent to which relations are maintainted with poor people.
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  Shocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  This paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. It also investigates the circumstances under which poor households are pushed into poverty traps from which recovery is not possible.
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  Buffering inequalities: the safety net of extended families in Cameroon

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2004

  This paper investigates the role of extended family systems in buffering socioeconomic inequality in African societies, notably through fosterage of children across nuclear family units. Previous study has raised concerns that this support system would be likely to collapse under pressures of globalisation and economic crises.
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  Drivers of escape and descent: changing household fortunes in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004

  This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty.
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  Untapped connections: gender, water and poverty. Key issues, government commitments and actions for sustainable development

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This paper presents an overview of the relationship between gender, poverty and water. This includes men's and women's differential access to water and differential water uses, different experiences of health and sanitation, and how men and women are differently affected by public versus private services.

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