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Focus on human rights and gender justice: linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action
United Nations [UN] Non-Governmental Liaison Service, 2005This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of human rights, poverty eradication and the empowerment of women.The paper begins with a critical examination of CEDAW, the BFPA, and the MDGs.DocumentInequality in Latin America: processes and inputs
Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2003This paper analyses the multidimensional aspects of inequality by discussing the concept of inequality along three types of processes:economic, social, and political, and three different dimensions: regional, rural/urban and across population groups.DocumentLabor market regulations and income inequality: evidence for a panel of countries
2004This paper presents evidence on the impact of labour regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labour institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Silanes and Shleifer, 2003) and different cross-section and panel data analysis techniques for a sample of 121 countries over the 1970-2000 period.The authors find:deDocumentPro-poor growth: a review of what we know (and of what we don't)
World Bank, 2004Over the past few years pro-poor growth has become a very popular topic among development practitioners. This despite the fact that in many cases we do not even know what other people mean by pro-poor growth. Is it growth that leads to income redistribution or instead growth that leads to poverty reduction? More importantly, what do we know (and what we don't) about how we can achieve it?DocumentA macro policy for poverty eradication through structural change
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005This 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.DocumentHalf a world: regional inequality in five great federations
World Bank, 2004This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.DocumentDimensions of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa 1996-2001
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004This 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.DocumentTrade liberalisation, poverty and inequality: evidence from Indian districts
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004This paper investigates the impact of trade reforms on poverty and inequality in Indian districts. It explores the question whether trade liberalisation affects everyone equally or whether it helps those who are already relatively well off while leaving the poor behind.DocumentRemittances and poverty in Guatemala
World Bank, 2004This paper uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyse the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala.