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  Roads towards gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  The document, prepared for the 9th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean gives an overview of achievements and challenges in relation to poverty and gender equity in the region.The present document analyses the links between equity in the world of work and women’s economic autonomy.
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  Identification of the poor: flaws in government surveys

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This article challenges the basis of poverty indicators being used to determine the levels "Below the Poverty Line" (BPL) in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  How poverty separates parents from children: a challenge to human rights

  ATD Fourth World, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of poverty on families, particularly on children. Looking specifically at case studies in Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Haiti, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines, this paper examines the way that children and families experience poverty, the way that current discourse frames this issue, and comes up with several lessons learnt on the topic.
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  Valuing children, valuing parents

  ATD Fourth World, 2004

  This paper is the English translation of Precieux enfants, precieux parents published in November 2003. The paper is a response to the European Union's commitment to fight child poverty, and discusses parents and children living in extreme poverty.
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  Skilled migration: the perspective of developing countries

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. The authors first present new evidence on the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then discuss its direct and indirect effects on human capital formation in developing countries in a unified stylised model.
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  Proceedings of the First General Assembly of South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report provides the summary of the proceedings of the First General Assembly of South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), highlighting the key issues discussed and ideas conceived for the development of the alliance.The objectives of the meeting were to:strengthen the SAAPE alliance of civil society organisations at the regional level and develop strategies to work effecti
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  Brazilian population ageing: differences in well-being by rural and urban areas

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2002

  This paper examines the familial arrangements, health condition, economic activity and income of those aged over 60 in Brazil, using data from the General Household Surveys of 1981 and 1999.Its findings include that: although fertility and mortality are much higher in rural areas compared to urban ones, the proportion of the elderly population in the total population is about the same i
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  Persistent poverty in upper east Ghana

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This policy brief explores the nature of the poverty and the kinds of poverty traps faced by rural households in the Tempane-Gagbiri region of Upper East Ghana. It is based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered in 1975 and 1989.
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  Poverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper is a micro-level attempt to empirically test hypotheses of economic growth by examining risk management, marginal returns on productive assets, and asset dynamics across settings distinguished by different agroecological and market access conditions, in Kenya and Madagascar.The author claims that macroeconomic growth theories are characterized by three different hypotheses, which hav
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  Unsustainable livelihoods, health shocks and urban chronic poverty: rickshaw pullers as a case study

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This study presents an analysis of rickshaw pullers in Bangladesh and draws evidence to suggest that there ought to better analysis given to labour intensive approaches to pro-poor growth policies. The main findings from this study are:that a rickshaw puller has a slight advantage over an agricultural labourer characterised by regularity of income flows.

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