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  Fractal poverty traps

  Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access, 2003

  This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the nature and causality of poverty, in order to facilitate sustained growth and poverty reduction among the poor. This paper examines two key aspects of the nature of poverty: how human well-being evolves over time, and the multi-scalar nature of poverty.
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  Investigating social vulnerability in community-based poverty monitoring in Sri Lanka: scaling down to the household level

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2004

  This paper critically examines qualitative research methodologies used for community based poverty monitoring (CBPM), as employed in two case studies in rural Sri Lanka: Hambantota district, located on the south coast, and Batticaloa district located on the east coast of the island.
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  Poverty traps and safety nets

  Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access, 2003

  This paper examines the intersection between risk and poverty, concluding that poverty-focused research needs to pay greater attention to how risk can exacerbate poverty.
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  Engaging elite support for the poorest: BRAC's experience with the ultra poor programme

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2004

  This paper describes and draws lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in Bangladesh in supporting the ultrapoor and suggests that motivations behind the elite support are likely to be based on:the overlap between wealth, influence and the requirements of local social and political leadership.ways in which the Gram Shahayak Committees (GSC) helped foster a sense of local
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  Have Labour Market Outcomes Affected Household Structure in South Africa? A Preliminary Descriptive Analysis of Households

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper engages in an academic debate on the exogeneity of household size and composition from income flows and labour market outcomes. This paper examines household size and structure from the October Household Survey 1995, 1997, 1999 and the Labour Force Survey September 2001 and 2002.
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  Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.
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  Modelling pro-poor agricultural growth strategies in Malawi: lessons for policy and analysis

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper pulls together insights from related farm-household and CGE modelling for Malawi to suggest wider methodological and policy lessons for pro-poor policy analysis in poor agrarian economies.
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  The impact of inequality in Latin America

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2004

  This paper argues that development policies in Latin America (and in other developing regions) should focus not only on eliminating poverty and deprivation but also on preventing and reducing economic, social and political inequalities.
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  Multidimensional inequality: an empirical application to Brazil

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2004

  This paper illustrates two empirical approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality. The first approach is based on the analysis of the independent distribution of monetary and nonmonetary welfare attributes.
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  Growth and redistribution effects of poverty changes in Cameroon: a shapley decomposition analysis

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper investigates the growth and redistribution effects of changes in poverty using Cameroon’s household surveys. Using cooperative game theory, the author develops an exact decomposition framework based on the Shapley Value.The author finds that:poverty increased significantly between 1984 and 1996.

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