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  Poverty, pro-poor growth and simulated inequality reduction

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  With pervasive inequalities in growth throughout the developing world, this paper argues that a redistribution process is required to address this problem. The paper shows that in middle income countries a small redistribution can have a large impact on poverty reduction.
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  Zambia: poverty and vulnerability assessment

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This discussion paper documents poverty along a number of dimensions, including material deprivation, human deprivation, vulnerability, destitution, and social stigmatisation. It argues that there must be progress in all these areas if Zambia is to meet the MDGs.
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  Migration and inequality

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper focuses on case studies across Central America, Eastern Europe, West Africa and South Asia and demonstrates how the mutual causality between migration and inequality varies both between and within regions.
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  Faith, equity and development

  World Bank, 2005

  This theoretical paper, based on existing research, assesses the influence that religious movements have on the development process. The concept of identity politics is used to interpret the motivation for and principles of these movements.The paper is presented in five parts.
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  Inequality is bad for the poor

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper takes up an issue with the view that "the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth." The authors argue that there are a number of ways in which inequality and its evolution can exert an influence over the extent of poverty and prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future.In reviewing the literature that suggests that gr
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  Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?

  World Bank, 2005

  This 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.
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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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  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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  Gender and Poverty in the context of human development, health, education and the MDG’s

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This background paper summarises the main issues around gender and poverty in southern Africa in the context of human development, health, education, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Draft of World Development Report 2006: equity and development

  World Bank, 2005

  The draft version of the World Development Report 2006 analyses the relationship between equity and development. Its key message states that equity is complementary, in some fundamental respects, to the pursuit of long-run prosperity.

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