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Gender and budget 2005
International Budget Partnership, 2005This paper examines gender equity within the 2005 South African budget. The authors highlight that women and girls are often most vulnerable to conditions like HIV/AIDS and poverty, but that programmes to address these conditions will fail without a significant earmarking of funds.DocumentA quantitative assessment of social exclusion in Pakistan
Oxford Policy Management, 2005This briefing note aims to quantify the relationship between social exclusion and poverty in Pakistan. It offers a quantitative description and analysis of social exclusion in Pakistan through a literature review of all forms of exclusion and the analysis of datasets with information on socially excluded groups.DocumentFocus on human rights and gender justice: linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action
United Nations [UN] Non-Governmental Liaison Service, 2005This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of human rights, poverty eradication and the empowerment of women.The paper begins with a critical examination of CEDAW, the BFPA, and the MDGs.DocumentPro-poor growth: a review of what we know (and of what we don't)
World Bank, 2004Over the past few years pro-poor growth has become a very popular topic among development practitioners. This despite the fact that in many cases we do not even know what other people mean by pro-poor growth. Is it growth that leads to income redistribution or instead growth that leads to poverty reduction? More importantly, what do we know (and what we don't) about how we can achieve it?DocumentHalf a world: regional inequality in five great federations
World Bank, 2004This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.DocumentDimensions of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa 1996-2001
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004This survey of poverty in post-apartheid south Africa defines and examines poverty in the South African context. The aim of this report is to provide a picture of asset and services deprivation, economic activity, and health and safety, and to illustrate and crime.DocumentGlobalization, poverty, inequality, and insecurity: some insights from the economics of happiness
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004This paper looks at the relationship between globalisation, poverty and inequality by subjective well being or happiness studies, as well as the literature on the economics of happiness.The studies in Latin America and Russia examine how the dynamics of poverty and inequality affect well-being.DocumentThe rise or fall of world inequality: a spurious controversy?
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004This paper explores the divergence of opinion on whether inequality in the world is rising or falling. The authors here attempt to pinpoint what drives the two extreme positions apart.DocumentSocial groups and economic poverty: a problem in measurement
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004This highly technical paper examines conflicts between claims of interpersonal and intergroup justice. This conflict is manifested in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty. The authors indicate how "group-sensitive" poverty measures, such as the Gender Adjusted Human Development Index and the Subramanian-Majumdar Group-Disparity Adjusted Deprivation Index, may be constructed.Pages