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    Are there lessons for Africa from China’s success against poverty?

    World Bank Research, 2008
    China has emerged as a major investor and aid donor in Africa. However this paper contends that, from an African perspective, it is above all a role model for successful poverty reduction. Throughout its reform period, China reduced poverty at a much higher rate than the rest of the developing world.
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    Elites can channel community knowledge of poverty into policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The knowledge of poverty gained from working with poor people is rarely given importance in policy debates relevant to poverty reduction. In Uganda and South Africa, local elites such as lawyers running legal aid centres could communicate their community-learned knowledge of poverty to inform national level pro-poor policies.
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    Can payments for environmental services help reduce poverty? An exploration of the issues and the evidence to date from Latin America

    Science Direct, 2005
    Recent years have seen considerable interest in using Payments for Environmental Services (PES) as an incentive to enhance conservation efforts. Latin America has been particularly receptive to this approach with programmes in operation in Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador and Mexico, amongst others.
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    Stimulating innovation in urban agriculture

    RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine, 2008
    Urban farming systems are in constant development as urban farmers adapt their existing practices or come up with new ones, yet are rarely given formal support for their innovations. This issue of looks at how urban farmers can be supported in their efforts to improve their livelihoods.
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    Strategy of growth for substantial reduction of poverty and reversal of trend towards increasing regional divide

    Madras School of Economics, India, 2007
    In view of the increasing regional disparity alongside high rates of growth in India, this paper argues for a new model of growth which is more inclusive and even, across India’s states. 
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    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA - Africa)

    ANSA-Africa is a new network, jointly created by the World Bank and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa, to advocate citizen involvement in demand-side governance initiativ
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    Accountability in poverty reduction strategies: the role of empowerment and participation

    Social Development, World Bank, 2007
    This paper is part of a research project analysing the participation of stakeholders beyond the drafting process of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). A number of constraints impede meaningful participation in many countries. However, exceptions demonstrate that meaningful participation in PRS processes is possible.
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    Towards wellbeing in forest communities: a sourcebook for local government

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    Local governments have an important role to play in enhancing the wellbeing of forest communities, yet often lack the capacity to understand and address local needs.
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    No place like home: house demolitions in East Jerusalem

    The Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, 2007
    Palestinian residents living in East Jerusalem are experiencing increased difficulties when building residential homes for themselves. The author argues that they face a myriad of bureaucratic hurdles when trying to obtain building permits as a result of low plot ratios in the Palestinian sectors of the city and problems with proof of land ownership.
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    Vox

    VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites, including the Italian site LaVoce (which provided i

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