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  An Asset-Based Approach to the Analysis of Poverty in Latin America [plus case studies]

  Economic Research and Development Policy in Latin America, IADB Research Department, 1999

  Project argues that poverty in Latin America (or at least the ‘excess poverty’ given the level of income in the region), is a problem caused mainly by high inequality. But income inequality in the region is, to a large extent, a reflection of a very skewed distribution of income-earning assets, human capital being the most important.
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  Assets, Markets and Poverty in Brazil

  Economic Research and Development Policy in Latin America, IADB Research Department, 1999

  Establishes a basis of research on the relationship between poverty, resources distribution and assets markets operation. The main objective is to help the implementation of capital enhancing policies towards the poor. The strategy followed is to analyze three different types of impacts that increasing the assets of the poor may have on social welfare.
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  The Effect of Family Planning on Women's Lives: The Case of The People's Republic of China

  Family Health International, 1998

  Fertility in China has declined dramatically over the last three decades, due in large part to government policy and a strong family planning program. In 1979, China implemented a policy advocating one child per couple, with some exceptions in rural areas, particularly, for couples having daughters only.
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  Gender and public social spending: disaggregating benefit incidence

  Gendernet, World Bank, 1999

  Describes how the gender dimension of public spending on health and education can be captured in part through benefit incidence analysis.It contains two basic messages: gender disaggregations are important in their own right, since they highlight gender differences in benefit incidence which are of policy concernthese gender differences are also important in understanding other matt
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  How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted?: Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief by running up new debts or by running down assets. And there are some signs that incremental debt relief over the past two decades has fulfilled those predictions.
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  The performance of the Lesotho credit union movement: internal financing and external capital inflow

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996

  Looks at the effects of using financial cooperatives in Lesotho as conduits for providing financial resources to the poor. The empirical study which forms the basis of this paper explores the factors that have determined the success of credit cooperatives in this country.
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  Understanding Impact: Experiences and Lessons from the Small Enterprise Foundation’s Poverty-Alleviation Programme, Tšhomišano

  Small Enterprise Foundation, 1999

  Paper produced for the Third Virtual Meeting of the CGAP Working Group on Impact Assessment Methodologies.Describes the implementation of microfinance programme and discusses the measurement of it's impact.
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  Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999

  Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.
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  Can the Poor Influence Policy? Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World

  World Bank, 1999

  Full-text of report available to download as PDF files.This new report, which revolutionizes the way the World Bank gains an understanding of poverty, offers a fresh approach that gives the poor a voice that has been absent for far too long. How can the poor, so removed from the powerful, influence national policy?
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  Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2000

  Prospects for Development [World Bank], 1999

  Annual report, reviews the recovery from the financial crisis and the prospects for developing countries; traces the impact of the crisis on poverty; analyzes the difficulties facing businesses and financial institutions in the East Asian crisis countries; and discusses the implications of the recent volatility in commodity prices, in part caused by the crisis, for commodity dependent economies.

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