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    Profits and poverty: the economics of forced labour

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    Today, about 21 million men, women and children are in forced labour, trafficked, held in debt bondage or work in slave-like conditions. This report builds on earlier ILO studies on the extent, cost and profits from forced labour. It looks at both the supply and demand sides of forced labour, and presents solid evidence for a correlation between forced labour and poverty.
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    Grounded: special report - Brazil

    The Economist, 2013
    A special country-focused edtion of The Economist magazine looks at the following topic areas:
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    Striving for excellence: mega sporting events and human rights

    Institute for Human Rights and Business, 2013
    From the perspective of human rights, "Mega Sporting Events” (MSEs),  bring both opportunities and risks.
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    Social gains in the balance: a fiscal policy challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean

    World Bank, 2014
    The proportion of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region's 600 million people living in extreme poverty, defined in the region as life on less than $2.50 a day, was cut in half between 2003 and 2012 to 12.3 percent.
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    The dynamic south, economic development and inclusive growth: the challenges ahead

    The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, 2013
    High wage inequality is a major policy concern in Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Recent literature points to the need to examine the role of minimum wages or unionisation and their links to inequality within labour markets and the role of social protection.
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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    Informality in Egypt: a stepping stone or a dead end?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2009
    In the last few decades, the informal sector has played a major role in many of the Least Developed Countries’ labour markets. This is partly because employment in the informal economy tends to expand during periods of economic adjustment or transition. By the late 1990s, more than two thirds of new workers in Egypt started work in informal employment.
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    The implications of horizontal and vertical inequalities for tax and expenditure policies

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2009
    While horizontal inequality, or inequality between groups of people, is increasingly recognised as an impediment to long-term poverty reduction in multi-ethnic societies, there is less clarity still on which policy instruments are most suited to correcting group-wise resource distribution.
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    Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico: revisiting the evidence

    LSE Research Online, 2008
    This article explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries.
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    Assessing the redistributive effect of fiscal policy

    World Bank, 2008
    How does a government’s fiscal policy, and, specifically, its tax policy, influence the distribution of economic welfare in a society? In the context of poverty and inequality, accounting for the distributional effects of public policy is essential when evaluating government intervention. One way of doing this is through expenditure and tax incidence analysis.

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