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  A project framework for a development strategy targeting the ultra poor

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This paper aims to provide a project framework based on features of poverty described by the 'ultra poor' themselves.
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  Trade, inequality, and poverty: what do we know?: evidence from recent trade liberalization episodes in developing countries

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004

  This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the relationship between trade liberalisation, inequality, and poverty based on the analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years.The authors find a number of patterns that seem common across countries and trade liberalisation episodes, and may be informative as to how developing cou
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  Poverty and inequality from a gender perspective

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003

  This document reproduces chapter III of the ‘Social Panorama of Latin America, 2002-2003’, produced by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).The chapter discusses trends in poverty among women in Latin America over the 1990s.
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  Poverty mapping with aggregate census data

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the loss in precision associated with using aggregated census data instead of household level data to generate poverty estimates.
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  Possible causes of poverty within a group of land reform beneficiaries in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal: analysis and policy recommendations

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This study investigates possible causes of poverty afflicting a community of land reform beneficiaries in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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  Spatial inequality and development in Central Asia

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper addresses inequality in living standards across regions within Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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  Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: an exploratory analysis

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper addresses income inequality in the Philippines, with a special focus on the importance of spatial income inequality.
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  Pathways from poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper gives an overview of the current state of knowledge on poverty dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that neither cross-country studies nor cross-sectional studies provide good explanations as to why some African households and individuals escape poverty.
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  How have the world’s poorest fared since the early 1980s?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  This report presents new estimates of the extent of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard, they find that there were 1.1 billion poor in 2001: almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier.Over the same period, the number of poor declined by more than 400 million in China, though half of this decline was in the first few years of the 1980s.
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  Choice among different job search channels: evidence from Russian labor market

  Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2004

  How do people look for a job in Russia? Are their search methods random or dependant on any observable factors? How do search methods differ across social and demographic groups?

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