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  Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural prices, lower wages, and a shortage of off-farm employment generally lead to more deforestation.
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  Appraising Workfare

  World Bank Research Observer, 1999

  Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a crisis. This article offers some simple analytical tools that can be used to rapidly appraise the cost-effectiveness of an existing workfare operation as a basis for deciding whether the program should be expanded.
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  Asia and the Pacific into the 21st Century: Prospects for Social Development

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1998

  Reviews the progress in social development in the region, and identifies priority issues requiring attention.The study contains two parts. Part One presents an overview of the prospects for social development in Asia and the Pacific region. This part examines the region's overall development context at the global, regional and subregional levels.
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  Politics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFIDPolicy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the poorStates create and shape the political opportunities for the poorThere is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poorThere is a wide range of possib
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  Education and Income Distribution: New Evidence from Cross-country Data

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  Presents empirical evidence on how education is related to income distribution in a panel data set of a broad range of countries for a period between 1960 and 1990.The findings indicate that education factors - higher attainment and more equal distribution of education - play a significant role in making income distribution more equal.The result also confirms the Kuznets inverted-U curve for
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  What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action.
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  Balancing sweatshop ethics and economics

  University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, 1999

  The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations.
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  Country Gender Profile: South Africa

  Women'sNet [South Africa], 1999

  Explores the dynamics of gender relations and the challenge of transforming gender inequalities in the broader economic and political context of South Africa’s transition to democracy and re-integration into the global economy.
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  Are Poverty Reduction and Other 21st Century Social Goals Attainable?

  PovertyNet, World Bank, 1998

  Assesses empirically how attainable are two of the goals set by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee for the year 2015-halving the incidence of poverty and reducing child mortality by two-thirds.Finds that the evidence is mixed. Some countries appear likely to achieve the poverty goal, while others do not.
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  Poverty trends and voices of the poor

  PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001

  Discusses new estimates of the extent of global income poverty and new evidence on social indicators by economic group, and reports on the finding of a major study on what poverty means to the poor.The article shows that poor people describe four pervasive and systemic problems that affect their lives adversely almost everywhere: corruption, violence, powerlessness, and insecure livelihood.

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