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    Challenges and opportunities for gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

    World Bank, 2003
    This study highlights that while women in the Latin America and the Caribbean have made significant advances with regard to equality, traditional social patterns continue to undermine their participation in the labour market, and hinder the ability of households to escape from poverty.
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    Briefing paper on the "feminisation of poverty"

    BRIDGE, 2001
    This paper considers the definition and reality of the "feminisation of poverty." The authors consider the role of female headed households (FHH), labour force participation, different conceptions of poverty, in order to create a picture of how men and women experience poverty differently.
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    Development as freedom - contributions and shortcomings of Amartya Sens's development philosophy for feminist economics

    Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2002
    This paper questions to what extent Amartya Sen’s ideas on freedom and especially his conceptualisation of development as freedom can enrich feminist economics.
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    Accounting for wage inequality in India

    Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2005
    This paper investigates the evolution and structure of wage inequality among adult male workers engaged in regular and casual wage employment in India during a period of radical economic change. The analysis exploits data from nationally representative employment surveys and uses decomposition techniques to examine the role played by educational achievement and industry affiliation.
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    Assessing quality of life in a mining region

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005
    This paper reports on an exploratory exercise to assess quality of life (QOL) in a mining region. The paper explores whether mining influences the QOL of the local people.
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    Productivity, wages and employment in South Africa’s manufacturing sector, 1970-2002

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
    This paper investigates the relationship between labour productivity, average real wages and employment in South Africa’s manufacturing sector, using cointegrating VAR and VECM econometric techniques.The author found a long-run equilibrium relationship between real wages and productivity, with an elasticity of 0,38 – indicating that productivity has grown more rapidly than wages.
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    Dimensions of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa 1996-2001

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
    This survey of poverty in post-apartheid south Africa defines and examines poverty in the South African context. The aim of this report is to provide a picture of asset and services deprivation, economic activity, and health and safety, and to illustrate and crime.
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    Going from bad to worse: Malawi’s maternal mortality

    Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2004
    This paper, from the Health Systems Trust, is an analysis of the clinical, health systems and underlying reasons for the drastic deterioration in maternal health in Malawi.
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    Women and men in the informal economy: a statistical picture

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    The report provides a statistical picture, using the available data, of the informal economy worldwide.
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    Unravelling a conceptual muddle: India’s poverty statistics in the light of basic demand theory

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005
    This article explores the ‘identification’ problem of India's poverty measurement and ways in which this methodology (or variants of it) may continue to mislead assessments of income poverty.The author argues that claims of a declining trend in poverty remain to be substantiated.

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