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  Choosing rural road investments to help reduce poverty

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article explores the link between rural road investments and the reduction of poverty.
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  Picking the poor: indicators for geographic targeting in Peru

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article explores geographic targeting of social programs to the poor in Peru. The potential payoffs of such targeting are large, and differences in outcomes with different targeting indicators are small.
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  The evolution of thinking about poverty: exploring the interactions

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 1999

  This paper considers the evolution of thinking about poverty since Rowntree's classic study of poverty in England at the turn of the last century.
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  Economic policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001

  This article explores the disagreements which surround debates on poverty. It discusses the gulf between how officials and NGOs understand poverty.
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  Rural poverty report 2001

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2001

  This report explores means of reducing rural poverty. Rural poverty reduction is considered to be a central aspect of achieving poverty reduction more generally (rural areas of developing countries containing over three-quarters of the world's dollar-poor'). This aim was first agreed during the UN Social Summit in Copenhagen.
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  Sources of ethnic inequality in Viet Nam

  Global Development Network, 2000

  Vietnam’s ethnic minorities tend to be concentrated in remote rural areas and typically have lower living standards than the ethnic majority. How much is this due to poor economic characteristics versus low returns to characteristics?
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  Poverty, growth and inequity in Nigeria: a case study

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2000

  This article explores a study into poverty in Nigeria.Resulting poverty profile:male-headed households contribute over 80% to the three measures of poverty and female-headed households contribute 5-16% (keeping in mind the small size of the female sample noted above) The contribution to poverty tends to be higher in the north than in the south; while the contribution to pove
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  Growth with equity is good for the poor

  Oxfam, 2000

  Review of the report written by David Dollar and Aart Kraay of the Policy Research Department of the World Bank entitled 'Growth is good for the poor'. The report argues that economic growth is closely associated with poverty reduction, and that globalisation and openness bring the same benefits to the poor as to the non-poor.
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  How did the world’s poorest fare in the 1990s?

  World Bank, 2000

  Drawing on 265 national sample surveys spanning 83 countries this article finds that there was a:Net decrease in the overall incidence of consumption poverty over 1987-98But it was not enough to reduce the total number of poor by various definitionsThe incidence of poverty fell in Asia and the Middle East—North Africa.Little change in Latin America and Sub-Saharan AfricaIt
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  PRS: poverty reduction or public relations strategies?

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2000

  As a response to the criticisms from campaigning groups and NGOs throughout the world, the Boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund commissioned the 1999 Fundamental Review of the HIPC Initiative.

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