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    A critical review of the World Bank report: World Development Report 2000/2001: attacking poverty

    Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2000
    Collection of indepth articles, produced by Norwegian researchers critically reviewing the World Development Report 2000/2001 (WDR).The introduction to the reviews indicates that the WDR presents itself as a document based on scientific knowledge. The research group has taken this position seriously and treated it as such.
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    AIDS, poverty reduction and debt relief: a toolkit for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS programmes into development instruments

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Argues that the potential benefits of giving HIV/AIDS a prominent place in PRSPs and HIPC agreements are substantial. They include greater political attention to and increased domestic funding for the national HIV/AIDS programme,as well as a focus on achieving results in implementing a national HIV/AIDS programme.
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    Dare to lead: public health and company wealth

    Oxfam, 2001
    This is the first in a series of briefing papers analysing the human development impact of transnational corporations (TNCs).
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    Poverty alleviation and sustainable development: exploring the links

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2001
    The workshop on Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Exploring the Links (organised by IISD) was held on 23 January 2001 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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    Conflict's children: the human cost of small arms in Kitgum and Kotido, Uganda

    Oxfam, 2001
    Reporting on a field study conducted in several areas and instutions in Kitgum and Kotido (Uganda), this paper presents a literature review, results of informant interviews, and assesses the impact of small arms on education.Conclusions and recommendations:Small arms have played a major role in creating the devastating poverty and misery experienced by the majority of the civilian po
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    Polices to roll-back the state and privatise? [PRSPs]

    World Development Movement, 2001
    Short paper reviewing experience with PRSPs, based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.Findings include: across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papers.
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    Inequality and economic growth: the empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data

    School of Economics, University of Nottingham, 2001
    Discusses the relationship between inequality and economic growth, and the problems of data analysis. Many studies have found evidence of a negative correlation between these two variables.
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    Labour markets and income inequality: what are the new insights after the Washington consensus?

    United Nations University, 2000
    This paper looks at some of the labour market outcomes of Washington-inspired economic reform polices in terms of inequality.
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    Do we know how much poverty there is?

    2000
    This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the existence of economies of scale in consumption, methods for treating missing and zero incomes, and different adjustments to handle income misreporting.The authors also perform sensitivity analysis to the use of different poverty lines and poverty indexes, which are issues that ha
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    Paths out of poverty: the role of private enterprise in developing coutries

    International Finance Corporation, 2000
    This article emphasises that private enterprises are essential in allowing the poor to escape poverty, and looks at which conditions encourage or discourage private firms from doing business in poorer countries.Key conditions are: the state can secure contract enforcement between private parties and between private parties and the state—most basically, clearly defined property rights.

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