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    UNDP Poverty Report 2000: Overcoming Human Poverty

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
    Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries are being encouraged to launch full-scale campaigns against poverty.
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    Rural finance

    Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000
    Increasing access to financial services still has a role in combating rural poverty. In the past, the narrow focus on subsidized credit for agricultural production proved unsustainable. However, recent experiences have been more positive.
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    Engendering development

    Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
    Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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    An end to forgotten emergencies?

    Oxfam, 2000
    As Western countries have got richer in the past ten years, the proportion of their wealth spent on humanitarian aid has gone down by 30%. The number of forgotten emergencies looks set to increase. The required response is not aid alone. Oxfam continues to press for international efforts to prevent conflict, tackle poverty, and promote respect for human rights. Yet humanitarian aid remains vital.
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    Reaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.
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    Assessing Globalization: briefing papers

    Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2000
    Series of World Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization and then assesses three leading questions about globalization by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries. Is globalization increasing world poverty?
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    Budgets as if people mattered: democratizing macroeconomic policies

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
    The concept of 'budgets as if people mattered' is inspired by a large number of initiatives that have emerged around the world during the last fifteen years to examine public budgets through a poverty or gender lens.
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    Private adjustments: household responses to the erosion of work

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
    Changes in labor markets and State withdrawal from the financing and provision of social benefits and services have had a major impact on the way households organize their labor, time and other resources.
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    The status of sector wide approaches: a framework paper

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Paper is an outcome of the informal Like-Minded Donor Working Group on the Implementation of Sector Wide Approaches (SWA).
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    Rural poverty in developing countries: issues and policies

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2000
    Review of rural poverty, and suggested policy framework.Policy option considered include: stable macroenomic management; transfer of assets; investment in and access to physical/social infrastructure; access to credit and jobs; safety nets.

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