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  Financial diaries: investigating the financial lives of the poor in South Africa

  Financial Diaries, 2005

  This brief presents findings from a study into the financial lives of the poor in South Africa. It aims to contribute to understanding how formal and informal financial instruments are used in the struggle against poverty.
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  Iraq living conditions survey 2004; volume II: analytical report

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  This book reports on the results of the Iraq Living Conditions Survey (ILCS) survey and analyses the living conditions in Iraq as they were approximately one year after the fall of the Saddam Hussein's regime.
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  Poverty, inequality and labour markets in Africa: a descriptive overview

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2005

  This paper examines the poverty, inequality and labour market challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper illustrates that apart from levels of poverty and inequality that are inordinately high in SSA, the region is also beset with the problem of accounting for almost all of the world’s ultra-poor: namely those individuals living on less than half of the standard $1 a day poverty line.
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  Understanding urban chronic poverty: crossing the qualitative

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2005

  This paper summarises the recent quantitative and qualitative evidence on urban poverty in Ethiopia. The author contends that the analysis of poverty dynamics is difficult and has been neglected, hence most of the studies reviewed here focus on urban poverty at a particular point in time.
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  Option values, switches and wages: an analysis of the employment guarantee scheme in India

  School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, 2004

  This paper argues that the value of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra and its impact on workers’ behaviour do not depend so much on income supplementation as on enlargement of opportunities in an uncertain environment of the local labour market.
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  Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

  World Bank, 2004

  This 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.
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  Report of the meeting of experts on time-use surveys

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  This report summarises the meeting of experts on time-use surveys that was held in Santiago, Chile. The aim of the meeting was to discuss and exchange experiences in the preparation of time-use surveys (TUS) with regard to both methodological and conceptual aspects, taking into account the main difficulties and problems in their development.
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  Shocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  This paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. It also investigates the circumstances under which poor households are pushed into poverty traps from which recovery is not possible.
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  Accounting for wage inequality in India

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2005

  This paper investigates the evolution and structure of wage inequality among adult male workers engaged in regular and casual wage employment in India during a period of radical economic change. The analysis exploits data from nationally representative employment surveys and uses decomposition techniques to examine the role played by educational achievement and industry affiliation.
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  Unravelling a conceptual muddle: India’s poverty statistics in the light of basic demand theory

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  This article explores the ‘identification’ problem of India's poverty measurement and ways in which this methodology (or variants of it) may continue to mislead assessments of income poverty.The author argues that claims of a declining trend in poverty remain to be substantiated.

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