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  Organic agriculture and poverty reduction in Asia: China and India focus

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2005

  The primary goal of this report is to enable a better understanding of organic agriculture in Asia, particularly India and China, and to clarify how organics can serve or hinder poor, small farmers and rural communities.
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  Inequality is bad for the poor

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper takes up an issue with the view that "the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth." The authors argue that there are a number of ways in which inequality and its evolution can exert an influence over the extent of poverty and prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future.In reviewing the literature that suggests that gr
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  The effect of China and India's growth and trade liberalisation on poverty in Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  Despite the fact that trade between China, India (Asian Drivers) and Africa has grown significantly since 1990, it is only recently that attention has been paid to their impact on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.
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  Cracking down on the HIV/AIDS crisis: can global targets work?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Globally, 40 million people live with HIV/AIDS; 5 million people were infected with HIV in 2001. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 to halt and reverse the spread of the disease is critical to other aspects of human development. However, this goal must consider how the disease develops in different regional and national contexts.
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  Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.
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  Textile and clothing trade rules prevent poverty alleviation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Textiles and clothing exports from developing countries continue to undermine poverty alleviation despite current changes to trade rules. Since 1974, rich countries have used the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas to restrict entry of these goods to their markets.
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  Organic agriculture and rural poverty alleviation: potential and best practices in Asia

  Poverty and Development Division, UNESCAP, 2002

  This document studies the rapidly developing organic farming sector in Asia. It looks at concepts and practices, export potential, market developments and, first and foremost, success cases where small and marginal farmers in the rural areas were able to increase their livelihood through organic agriculture.
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  Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world)

  United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2003

  This paper empirically explores the contradictions and inadequacies of measurements of growth and inequality between national accounts and surveys. It explores the reasons as to why there is divergence of results from national accounts and survey-based estimates of consumption.
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  Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002

  This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.

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