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    Inequality, poverty reduction and the middle-income trap in Vietnam

    2015
    Vietnam has experienced a remarkable period of economic growth in the past two decades. The country now sits firmly in the World Bank’s category of ‘lower middle-income countries’. Sustained reductions in poverty have also been acheived. However, the task is not yet complete.
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    Wages and inequality in the Egyptian labor market in an era of financial crisis and revolution

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper investigates the pattern of wages and wage inequality in Egypt over the period 1988-2012, a time of substantial economic and political changes, including the recent global financial crises and the January 25th 2011 revolution.
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    Building resilience to environmental change by transforming gender relations

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014
    This briefing is based on a workshop which brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss why gender relations are still largely absent from debates on climate change and disasters, what misconceptions may exist, and to define the broad lines of a forward-looking action research agenda.
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    Making youth employment policies work

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015
    Government policy and public investment in Kenya has focused disproportionately on formal private sector development and on education that is geared to urban wage employment as a solution to youth unemployment. A closer look at the figures, however, reveals that underemployment, especially in rural areas, is the greater challenge.
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    Taking Africa’s irregular migrants into account: trends, challenges and policy options

    African Development Bank, 2014
    A migrant is considered as irregular when he does not meet the immigration laws’ requirements while entering, residing or working in a given transit or receiving country.
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    Sustainable Development Goals must consider security, justice and inequality to achieve social justice

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Security and social justice have a crucial role to play in the newly proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goals, which aim to establish a safe, sustainable and just society for all, require a truly transformative approach, one that places inclusivity, safety, equity and justice at the centre of a global pursuit for sustainable development.
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    Helpdesk Report: Pro-Poor health delivery

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    Information on pro-poor health policies does not fit neatly into mutually exclusive categories and many of the themes overlap. For example, universal coverage interventions such as abolishing user fees were often discussed as pro-poor targeting. Universal targeting can appear to be targeting the poor but it may be that the less poor are paying for higher quality services.
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    Helpdesk Report: Barriers to learning

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    Despite increasing numbers of children being enrolled in school, their learning outcomes are often of poor quality. This report looks at the issues and research on poor quality student learning outcomes and what inputs can create the enabling learning environment needed to address this. The report begins with a brief section on the context of the education system in Bangladesh.
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    Helpdesk Report: education and poverty

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    This helpdesk report presents the available evidence regarding the following aspects of the relationship between education and poverty:
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    Helpdesk Report: Is investment in early childhood development or secondary education more beneficial?

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    Different estimates of returns were identified which are useful in looking at the value of early childhood interventions and secondary education but are not directly comparable.  It is difficult to draw conclusions from the different data reported due to difference in methodologies, timelines and countries. In some reports there are different data for social and private returns.

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