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  Will growth halve global poverty by 2015?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  Examines progress towards meeting the international development targets set by OECD/DAC in 1996: to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.The authors forecast that: In developing countries as a whole, extreme poverty can be more than halved by 2015 provided that currently forecast GNP growth rates (higher than past growth rates) are realised.
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  Progress of the World's Women 2000

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  Examines the progress of the world's women from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. It concentrates on the economic dimensions of gender equality and women's empowerment in the context of globalization.
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  Trade, income disparity and poverty

  World Trade Organization, 2000

  Report argues that trade liberalization helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones and that this faster economic growth helps to alleviate povertyThe report finds that:To alleviate poverty, developing economies need to grow faster, and the poor need to benefit from this growth.
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  Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Good governance (in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors) is crucial for the sustained and rapid growth of per capita incomes in poor countries.
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  Microenterprise and poverty: evidence from Latin America

  2000

  There are many unanswered questions regarding poverty in the microenterprise sector: Are microentrepreneurs and their workers poor? Who are the poor within the sector? Are households with a high dependency upon microenterprise-generated income poorer than other households?It analyes both household income per capita and individual earnings.
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  African Journals Online (AJOL)

  International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999

  The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as review papers.
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  Asian Development Outlook 2000

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2000

  Looks at the social challenge facing developing Asia as it enters the new millennium: improving the quality of life of the hundreds of millions who still live in abject poverty. It reviews the record of social progress so far, and analyzes the various dimensions of the social challenge and the policies necessary to confront it.
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  Attacking Poverty: World Development Report 2000/2001

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2000

  The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health.
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  How does public spending affect growth and poverty? The experience of China

  Global Development Network, 2000

  This paper uses province-level data for 1978-1997, to develop a simultaneous equation model to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on rural poverty and productivity growth in rural China.
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  The World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package

  Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000

  The article critically examines the World Bank's and IMF's new approach to poverty alleviation and debt relief, as it is to be carried out via the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).

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