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    Decomposing world income distribution: does the world have a middle class?

    World Bank, 2001
    Using the national income/expenditure distribution data from 119 countries, this paper decomposes total income inequality between the individuals in the world, by continents and regions.
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    On the urbanization of poverty

    World Bank, 2001
    Is the urban share of poverty also likely to grow? There is evidence that it has been doing so. Will the poor urbanise faster than the nonpoor?
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    Aid versus trade revisited

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.
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    Income risk, coping strategies and safety nets

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    This paper discusses the different strategies households use to cope with their livelihood risk. It focuses on income-based strategies, on assets as self-insurance and on informal insurance arrangements. It states that households are constrained in using these strategies.
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    Why is Africa so poor?: a structural model of economic development and income inequality

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
    The paper extends existing work on inequality and economic development by estimating a cross-country structural model that identifies bi-directional relationships between income inequality and other indicators of social and economic development.Overall, lower inequality is associated with improvements in other development indicators, but this is the result of several complex interactions.
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    Household welfare and poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso: empirical evidence from household surveys

    World Bank, 2001
    This paper investigates the dynamics of poverty and income inequality in a cross-section of socioeconomic groups and geographical regions.
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    Poverty alleviation in Jordan in the 1990's: lessons for the future

    Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
    The purpose of this report is to draw lessons for improving the policy design of poverty alleviation schemes in Jordan.
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    The determinants of urban and rural poverty in Tunisia

    Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
    This paper explores a range of policy concerns relating to the determinants of poverty in Tunisia on the basis of the household budget survey carried out in 1990 by the Institute of National statistics.
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    The gender dimensions of poverty in Egypt

    Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
    The study addresses the following questions: Does poverty have a woman's face, in Egypt? Is poverty among women linked to their situation in the labour market, and their education levels? Are women particularly at risk in poor households?This study presents a picture of the extent of poverty at all levels of analysis.
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    Poverty and social mobility in Lebanon: a few wild guesses

    Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
    The purpose of this paper is twofold. First of all, the paper aims at describing poverty in Lebanon and second the paper aims at measuring social mobility in Lebanon.

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