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Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives
South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.DocumentThe missing link in growth and sustainable development: closing the gender gap
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004This issues paper discusses how to take gender into consideration when addressing growth issues and how to close the gender gap in African development.DocumentPoverty studies in Peru: towards a more inclusive study of exclusion
Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2003This paper presents an overview of published literature on poverty and related concepts in Peru. Its goal is to facilitate a broader, interdisciplinary understanding of poverty, while also exploring discipline-specific and local understandings.DocumentGroup Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania
Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2004This paper studies indigenous insurance institutions in Tanzania and Ethiopia. These highly structured organisations provide premium-based insurance for funerals, but are increasingly offering other types of insurance as well.DocumentImpacts of Community Health Insurance Schemes on Health Care Provision in Rural Tanzania
Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2004This study examines community health funds (CHF) in Tanzania to evaluate the role of community health funds in lowering the barriers to access health care. The authors found that protection by the community schemes drastically increases participants’ demand for health care.DocumentAge and security: how social pensions can deliver effective aid to poor older people and their families
HelpAge International, 2004This report focuses on social pension programmes (involving non-contributory pensions targeted at the poor). It sets out the economic and political issues,provides case study evidence (including the views of older people already receiving pensions) and puts forward an agenda for action based on sound research and experience.DocumentDifferences in wages between men and women in Argentina today. Is there an “inverse” gender wage gap?
Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, Buenos Aires, 2003Previous research in Argentina has, unexpectedly, appeared to show that female hourly wages were higher than male hourly wages.DocumentThe poor in the Indian labour force in the 1990s
Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, India, 2004This paper presents all-India estimates of the number of poor people in the Indian labour force for 1993-94 and 1999-2000 and analyses the gender, activity and rural-urban composition of this group for the two points in time.DocumentLongevity in Russia’s regions: do poverty and low public health spending kill?
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic panel data model is used as a tool for the empirical analysis. The model is estimated using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data estimator.DocumentRural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary debates and implications for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004This CMI working paper provides an overview of rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa outlining the major strands of contemporary academic debates on this issue. There author identifies two interrelated debates for discussion.Pages