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  Pulling apart: facts and figures on inequality in Kenya

  Society for International Development, 2004

  This paper examines various types of inequality in Kenya. The authors suggest that while inequality is staggering across Kenya, it is also very little discussed. They intend this paper to lay a foundation for a national debate on inequality.The authors examine several dimensions of inequality in Kenya, including:how inequalities in Kenya are manifested in different forms.
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  Child malnutrition, social development and health services in the Andean region: second progress report

  Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 2004

  The authors suggest that child malnutrition severely jeopardises, reduces or impairs prospects for productive social participation in adulthood. The authors propose that it is a major hindrance to human development (defined as a process of enhancing human capabilities).
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  Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper examines different poverty measures, and questions to what extent these different concepts are measurable, to what extent they are competing versus complementary, and whether it is possible for them to be accommodated within an encompassing framework?The author identifies two gaps in the literature on subjective well-being, which this paper attempts to address:that, reflectin
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  Poverty in Tanzania: comparisons across administrative regions

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2004

  This paper is an interim report on a three pronged research project. The project’s overarching objectives are: to rank the administrative regions in Tanzania on the basis of povertyto use stochiastic dominance test to check the consistency of previous rankings.
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  Exploring changes in the lives of the ultra poor: an exploratory study on CFPR/TUP members

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2004

  This paper reviews a BRAC programme in Bangladesh which targets the ultra poor who are either bypassed or fail to benefit and subsequently drop out from existing development programme. The programme uses an asset-based approach where physical assets are provided to the selected ultra poor women as grants. The intervention strategy also includes health and social development components.
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  Livelihoods (un)employment and social safety nets: reflections from recent studies in KwaZulu-Natal

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper considers some methodological and substantive issues in the fields of livelihoods, unemployment and social safety nets in South Africa. This report focuses on the extent to which work and employment are reported in different types of surveys.
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  Towards a profile of the ultra poor in Bangladesh: findings from CFPR/TUP baseline survey

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2004

  This report is a baseline study of the ultra poor population living in some of the poorest districts of Bangladesh. The baseline study was carried out as a part of BRAC's new targeted programme for the ultra poor, called Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) introduced since 2001. The programme aims to reach 70,000 ultra poor households by 2006.
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  Seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal: a preliminary overview

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal.
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  The reach of the South African child support grant: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This article examines changes in social welfare policies in South Africa after Apartheid. The authors examine the government’s new Child Support Grant programme using data collected at a demographic surveillance site in KwaZulu-Natal to examine the effects of such policy changes.
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  Child allowances and allocative decisions in Romanian households

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2003

  This paper examines the phenomenon of government subsidies for children, and explores whether there is an "intra-household flypaper effect" associated with child allowances in Romania.

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