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  Residential segregation and social exclusion in Brazilian housing markets

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2003

  This paper seeks to analyse the characteristics of slums (favelas) in Brazilian cities, using data from the 1999 National Household Survey.
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  Demand for housing and urban services in Brazil: a hedonic approach

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2003

  This paper attempts to estimate demand for housing and urban services in ten major metropolitan areas of Brazil using data.
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  Fracture points in social policies for chronic poverty reduction

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper examines the fracture points in social policy formation, from agenda setting through to policy formation and its legitimisation. The authors query the reasons as to why policy makers may still fail to generate adequate responses, despite having clearly identified severe and widespread problems.
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  Poverty in Malawi

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997-98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. The analysis develops basic needs poverty lines, using consumption-based measures of welfare to classify households and individuals as poor and non-poor. The analysis provides poverty and inequality estimates for Malawi’s population.
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  Assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper examines the determinants of assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Globalization, poverty, inequality, and insecurity: some insights from the economics of happiness

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the relationship between globalisation, poverty and inequality by subjective well being or happiness studies, as well as the literature on the economics of happiness.The studies in Latin America and Russia examine how the dynamics of poverty and inequality affect well-being.
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  Distributional effects of optimal commodity taxes combined with minimum income programs in Brazil

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2003

  Commodity taxes play an important role in Brazil, accounting for around 60 per cent of total tax revenue, and providing a major tool for the redistribution of income in one of the most unequal societies in the world.
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  Do borrowing constraints decrease intergenerational mobility?: evidence from Brazil

  Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, 2003

  Theory suggests that borrowing constraints may influence intergenerational economic mobility because families that are unable to borrow only have access to their own resources to fund investments such as children’s education.
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  Poverty, livestock, and household typologies in Nepal

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper examines Nepal’s economic stagnation in the fact of global economic growth. This paper aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the features that characterise the poor in Nepal and to determine the role livestock plays in and for the household’s income and income sources.

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