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    Urban livelihoods in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    Poor urban households in Afghanistan are excluded from the most basic services and are forced to live day-to-day on unreliable income flows in often health-threatening environments.
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    Urban renewal: at whose cost?

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007
    This brief article examines the draft housing policy of Maharashtra in India.
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    Urban poverty office projects: operation and maintenance

    Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 1998
    Enhancing a city's operation and maintenance (O&M) system engenders local ownership and gives people a stake in service provision. This executive summary reviews the outcomes of an O&M situation analysis in the city of Cuttack, India.
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    Group-based inequalities and political exclusion cause conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Severe inequalities between culturally defined groups can make multi-ethnic countries more prone to civil conflict. These group-based inequalities may be more likely to lead to conflict if other conditions are present. The political conditions within countries, for example, may go a long way to explaining why civil conflict takes place.
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    Should donors give aid to developing country budgets?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    As donors seek to improve the effectiveness of aid, they have turned to delivering aid directly to developing country budgets. General budget support funds are used by recipient governments according to their own priorities. It is too early to tell, however, if this is more effective in reducing poverty than project or sectoral funding.
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    Governance and pro-poor growth in Africa

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2006
    This policy brief provides conclusions emerging from an annual African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) seminar.
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    Privatising basic utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: the MDG impact

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    Has privatisation brought development to Africa? This policy brief contends that privatisation has undermined progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The authors explain that African countries find themselves in a bind. While donor and private financing of public investment has declined, many governments have had to cut public spending in order to pay back creditors.
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    Conference and call for papers: Fragile States - Fragile Groups: Tackling Economic and Social Vulnerability, Helsinki, Finland, 15-16 June 2007

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2007
    The conference is jointly organised by UNU-WIDER and the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA).Conference topics will include:fragility concepts and measurestrade and financial shocksweather and other environmental shocksstate failure and governance in fragile stateshousehold vulnerability and fragile groupspoverty dynamics and economic
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    Courts under construction in Angola: what can they do for the poor?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
    This paper examines the role that may be envisioned for the courts in Angola with respect to the poor.
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    Reducing urban violence in developing countries

    Brookings Institution, 2006
    This brief presents an integrated framework for understanding urban violence. It is informed by the findings from participatory urban appraisals of violence undertaken in 18 poor urban communities in Colombia and Guatemala.The paper argues that evidence from Latin America challenges the popular stereotype that poverty is the main cause of violence.

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