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  Global poverty report 2000

  African Development Bank, 2000

  This report was prepared for the G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit Meeting 2000 by a consortium of multilateral finance organizations including African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank.The report focuses on three main topics:global poverty conditions and trendsregional poverty tr
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  Children in Bulgaria: growing impoverishment and unequal opportunities

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000

  The paper investigates the changes that occurred over the last decade in three dimensions of child welfare recognised as fundamental child rights - economic well-being, health and education.
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  World Labour Report 2000: income security and social protection in a changing world

  International Labour Organization, 2000

  Increasing globalization and trade liberalization are creating greater insecurity for many income earners.
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  Grandmothers and granddaughters: old age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000

  This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for the black population.
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  The impact of armed conflict on children

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.
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  PRSPs: should they carry a health warning?

  International Poverty Health Network, 2001

  This article investigates whether the World Bank and IMF's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) have been successful or not.The article indicates that:there has been criticism that there has been a lack of local ownership in the PRSP generation processthere has often been little, or occasionally no, participationalthough monitoring of the quality of participation in PRSPs i
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  Global hunger and food security after the World Food Summit (ODI)

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999
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  Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action (FAO)

  World Food Summit, FAO, 1999
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  Protecting the Poor During Adjustment (World Bank)

  HNPFLASH, 1999
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  The ecoregional factor: new perspectives on malnutrition and poverty (HCD Dissemination Note)

  HNPFLASH, 1995

  This exploratory research provides strong initial evidence of the linkages between the natural environment, socioeconomic factors and the incidence of malnutrition and poverty. Exploitation of these linkages has the potential to improve both targeting and interventions against malnutrition endemic in so many areas.

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