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  One kind of freedom: poverty dynamics in post-Apartheid South Africa

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000

  This article explores the legacy of apartheid, which had much to do with the extraordinary levels of inequality and human insecurity. It investigates this subject through the first ever nationally representative living standards survey undertaken in South Africa in 1993.
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  Recent developments in the debt situation of developing countries

  Financing for Development, 1999

  The present report analyses recent developments in the debt situation of developing countries, as well as new initiatives introduced by the international community to tackle the debt problems of developing countries.Policy recommendations:Review the list of HIPCs in order to ensure that all poor countries facing debt servicing difficulties will be considered under the initiative
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  Selling to eat: petty trading and traders in peri-urban areas of sub-saharan Africa

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  This article explores the increasing proliferation of petty traders, in Africa's sprawling peri-urban areas.Conclusions:The proliferation of petty traders in most peri-urban areas can be interpreted as an unhealthy symptom of economic underdevelopment.
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  Public opinion and development aid: is there a link?

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000

  The current international debate on aid to Africa seems to assume that public opinion matters, i.e. it presupposes the existence of a ‘bottom-up’ relationship between public opinion and aid policy.This paper shows that it is in fact the other way round. It is only possible to understand the relationship between decision-making on aid and public opinion as a ‘top-down’ relationship.
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  The effect of IMF and World Bank programs on poverty

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000

  Paper suggests there is no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. The poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By the same token, the poor suffer less from an output contraction in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans.Why would this be?
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  How to face an adverse geography?: the role of public and private assets

  Global Development Network, 1999

  The paper asks: what role do geographic variables, both natural and manmade, play in explaining per capita expenditures differentials across regions within Peru? How have these influences changed over time?Through what channels have they been transmitted?Has access to private and public assets compensated for the effects of an adverse geography?The research finds that h
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  The evolution of poverty during the crisis in Indonesia, 1996-99

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article looks critically at poverty within the context of the Indonesian crisis.
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  Quantifying vulnerability to poverty: a proposed measure, applied to Indonesia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article suggests that vulnerability is an important aspect of households' experience of poverty.
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  Measurements of poverty in Indonesia, 1996, 1999, and beyond

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article indicates that Indonesia's economic crisis has caused a consumption expenditures deterioration in the welfare of Indonesians.
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  Lessons from Uganda on strategies to fight poverty

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Paper draws lessons from the drafting of Uganda's PEAP, an early precursor to PRSPs. First, the PEAP plan made extensive use of existing data and research about Uganda to refocus a range of public policies and interventions relevant to poverty reduction.

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