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    DAC scoping study of donor poverty reduction policies and practices

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
    Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender analysis are more widespread.
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    Impact of the Asia crisis on children: Issues for social safety nets

    Australian Agency for International Development, 1999
    Report is based on a survey carried out in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand on the impact of the Asia crisis on children.
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    Assessing the Poverty and Vulnerability Impact of Micro-credit in Bangladesh: A case study of BRAC

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Presents the main argument that micro-credit contributes to mitigating a number of factors that contribute to vulnerability, whereas the impact on income-poverty is a function of borrowing beyond a certain loan threshold and to a certain extent contingent on how poor the household is to start with.This argument is illustrated by complementing the existing literature with some empirical
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    Thailand Social Monitor

    World Bank Office, Thailand, 1999
    Regular report on the social effects of the crisis, eash issue profiling a specific issue.These have includedSocial capital: what should be the role of family and community in providing social safety net services to Thais in need? What kind of social protection system should Thailand build in preparation for future downturns or other economic shocks.
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    An analysis of the poverty orientation of current Danida policies

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandingsthe attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines and proceduresthe concrete programmes and projects undertaken in Uganda.
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    Inter-temporal Changes in Welfare: Preliminary Results from Nine African Countries

    Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 1999
    Looks at changes in living standards over time using the comparable Demographic Health Surveys.
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    Income Distribution And Development

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
    Income distribution is extremely important for development, since it influences the cohesion of society, determines the extent of poverty for any given average per capita income and the poverty-reducing effects of growth, and even affects people's health.The paper reviews the connections between income distribution and economic growth.
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    Anti-poverty Policy: Screening for Eligibility Using Village-level Evidence

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
    In the context of targeting of state transfers based on income poverty lines, this study is concerned with the identification of households that may have been wrongly included in the target group.Authors investigate the relationship between self-declared private income and some 478 household variables obtained in a village level survey (in Tamil Nadu, India).
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    International financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000

    International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
    Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,
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    The Ageing and Development Report: Poverty, Independence and the World’s Older People

    HelpAge International, 1999
    Reviews the state of knowledge of the situation of older people in developing and transitional countries. It seeks to examine the impact which social and economic development policies have had – and could have - on older people struggling to overcome poverty and disadvantage.Executive summary only available online.

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