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  Economic growth and poverty reduction: measurement and policy issues

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  The aim of this Working Paper is to broaden the debate on pro-poor growth.
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  Exploring the quality of life of people in north eastern and southern Thailand

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2005

  Improvements in quality of life is a cornerstone of development, and is a focal point of any intervention programme.
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  Poverty in Mozambique: discourse, analysis and monitoring - suggestions for national stakeholders and the donor community

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  The aim of this report is to advise the Norwegian Embassy in Mozambique, and its partners, on how best to support poverty analysis and monitoring in Mozambique specifically and in the sectors of health, energy and fisheries in particular.
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  Emerging trends in urban livelihoods

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005

  This paper is part of a larger research project that aims to identify indicators of upward or downward movements in the continuum of poverty in Afghanistan, and to isolate characteristics and determinants that shape and differentiate various situations of the urban poor in Afghanistan.
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  Poverty traps, aid, and growth

  World Bank, 2005

  Why are some countries seem trapped in poverty? Why do poor countries remain poor? Can aid help?
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  Politics: the missing link in the G8 Africa debate

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This short position paper proposes that the political dimension of Africa’s development is the most important and the least well treated in this year’s G8 debate.
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  In Focus: The challenge of poverty

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2004

  This bulletin from the International Poverty Centre addresses various topics related to poverty, ranging from the relationship between female household headship and poverty to the challenges posed by urban slums, the persistence of poverty traps and gaps in maternal mortality between rich and poor women, and continuing shortfalls in access to basic water and sanitation facilities for the world's p
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  Conceptual ferment in poverty and inequality measurement: the view from economics and sociology

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  This article explores the main conceptual tools that are applied in economics and sociology and are used to make sense of inequality and poverty. It discusses research problems being pursued independently by sociologists and economists but that stem from very similar underlying interests and might therefore be usefully pursued in collaboration.
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  The human costs of the 2015 ‘business-as-usual’ scenario

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  This report provides a preliminary assessment of the potential scale of current trends towards meeting the MDGs. It draws on a global trend projection analysis that uses country-by-country data for the period 1990-2003 to build global and regional aggregates that capture changes in the distribution of poverty, child mortality, children out of school and other indicators.
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  Theorising the links between social and economic development: the sigma economy model of Adolfo Figueroa

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2003

  The sigma economy model of Adolfo Figueroa explains how labour market segmentation and inequality is perpetuated through exclusion in the provision of formal education, financial services and social protection. This article highlights the originality of the sigma model by contrasting it with dual economy models in the tradition of Arthur Lewis, which assume eventual labour market integration.

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