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  Growth is good for the poor

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000

  This paper investigates the link between income of the poor and overall income (per capita GDP).
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  Environmental change and human health in countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 1999

  Aims to first briefly describe the broad global, economic, political, social, institutional context in which ACP countries currently find themselves. Describes the health status and key health threats in ACP countries in an environmental context and reviews environmental developments in the region and the ways in which they are influencing health.
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  Which health policies are pro-poor?

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1999

  How can health policies and health system developments improve the health of poor people? This initial working paper for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC) is their first output on pro-poor health policies.
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  A review of experience concerning household ability to cope with the resource demands of ill health and health care utilisation

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000

  Policy has been generally ineffective in reaching the poor who have problems accessing health care. Much of international health policy has focused on identification of interventions to reduce the burden of ill-health in the most cost-effective way, rather than on the barriers to the poor seeking and obtaining care.
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  Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Among the conclusions Wagstaff and Watanabe reach about malnutrition rates among different economic groups in the developing world:Inequalities in malnutrition almost always disfavor the poorIt's not just that the poor have higher rates of malnutrition.
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  AIDS and agriculture in Africa: can agricultural policy make a difference?

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2000

  Focussing on sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spread rapidly over the past 15 years, this article highlights the effects of the pandemic on farm households and discusses some policy issues arising from it.Effects of HIV/AIDS infection on agriculture:Reduction in area of land under cultivation, as land is often allocated by community authorities to families on the basi
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001

  This article begins by emphasising that HIV/AIDS cannot be considered solely as a health problem and sufficient efforts are needed to address its social, economic and institutional consequences. Indeed the report suggests that increasingly, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies in many countries.
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  International perspectives on health inequalities and policy

  British Medical Journal, 2001

  While it is important to target "the poor", inequalities and inequities are not simply about the most deprived members of society. In low-income countries a large minority or even majority of the population live in poverty. In developed countries there are fine inequalities in health status that span the full socioeconomic spectrum.
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  Poverty, human capital and gender: a comparative study of Yemen and Egypt

  Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001

  The objective of this study is to examine the impacts of poverty on children's health status and educational attainment in Yemen and Egypt. The hypothesis is children from poor families, particularly girls have lower health status, lower educational attainment, and are most likely to engage in child labour.
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  The State of the World’s Children 2001

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2001

  Drawing on reports from the world over, The State of the World’s Children 2001 details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving – in the face of war, poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic – to protect the rights and meet the needs of these young children.

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