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    Choices for the poor: lessons from national poverty strategies

    United Nations Development Programme, 2001
    This paper is the result of independent country evaluations commissioned by UNDP in order to assess the results and impact achieved by the Poverty Strategies Initiative (PSI) and assist in determining the nature and extent of absolute poverty. The purpose of the PSI evaluation was twofold.
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    Economic reform, growth and the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia

    Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2001
    Using micro-level panel data from villages in rural Ethiopia, this paper uses standard decompositions of income changes and develops a new decomposition of poverty changes to analyse the determinants of growth and poverty changes during a period of economic reform in Ethiopia (1989-95).
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    Asian Development Outlook 2001: publication highlights

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
    The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) features:an assessment of economic trends and prospects for the world and for the developing economies of Asia and the Pacificeconomic profiles, economic management issues, development policy concerns and a forecast for the coming two years for 39 DMCs including newly independent East Timor (N.B.
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    African poverty at the millennium: causes, complexities, and challenges

    Documents and Reports, 2001
    Paper addresses the following questions:Who are the poor?What are the causes of poverty?Why have both states and markets failed the poor?Why do the poor have inadequate capital?How can we sustain improvements in social indicators?How are household and population dynamics changing?What are the roles for donors and governments in poverty reduction?Conclusio
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    Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

    World Bank, 2001
    This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.
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    Redistribution does matter: growth and redistribution for poverty reduction

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2000
    This paper situates itself in a recent debate within the development literature. The literature is ambiguous. On the one hand poverty reduction is prioritised as is possible growth enhancement from a more equal distribution of assets and income.
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    Strengthening pastoral institutions in North-West China pastoral area to access improved extension services for risk management and poverty alleviation

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001
    This report documents the in-depth situation assessment on Pastoral Risk Management and Poverty Alleviation, in Dari County.
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    World Labour Report 2000: income security and social protection in a changing world

    International Labour Organization, 2000
    Increasing globalization and trade liberalization are creating greater insecurity for many income earners.
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    Gender inequality, income, and growth: are good times good for women?

    Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
    This paper asks what macroeconomic data reveal about three specific questions:is lower investment in girls' education simply an efficient economic choice for developing countries?does gender inequality reflect different social or cultural preferences about gender roles?is there evidence of market failures that may lead to under-investment in girls, failures that may decline as coun
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    Microfinance strategies for HIV/AIDS mitigation and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    The paper is intended to expose a more comprehensive range of product, service and operational services that can be incorporated into a mitigation strategy as well as to offer some insights into how best to configure the most appropriate product/service mix. This involves not only offering a broader array of products and services (e.g.

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