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  Emerging trends in urban livelihoods

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005

  This paper is part of a larger research project that aims to identify indicators of upward or downward movements in the continuum of poverty in Afghanistan, and to isolate characteristics and determinants that shape and differentiate various situations of the urban poor in Afghanistan.
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  Caste discrimination and the private sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005

  This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.
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  Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate and reproduce these inequalities.
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  Medium-term effects of the Oportunidades program package, including nutrition, on education of rural children age 0-8 in 1997

  Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005

  This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Evaluation Survey.The main findings include: the age group 3 to 5 in 1997 most likely did not benefit from the early nutritional intervention and also by 2003
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  How does working as a child affect wage, income and poverty as an adult?

  World Bank, 2005

  This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour.
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  Why is mobility in India so low?: social insurance, inequality, and growth

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual insurance to their members.
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  Street vendors in Asia: a review

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  This study reviews research on street vendors in Asia in order to assess the extent of street vending across x Asian countries. It also collates information on the unionisation of the vendors as well as other organisations, comprising CBOs, NGOs & self help groups, that work for their welfare.
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  Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.
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  HIV Aids and gender impact report

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This report summarizes the findings of a household livelihood survey in Zambia. The aim was to gain a clear understanding of the dynamics of assets and livelihood strategies that are induced by the presence of HIV/AIDS in communities and households in Northern Province.The report is divided into two sections.
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  Process deficits or political constraints? bottom-up evaluation of non-contributory social protection policy for rural labourers in India

  Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin, 2005

  Often, the implementation of anti-poverty programmes has been evaluated on the basis of their outcomes rather than the process of implementation. Such methods of evaluation assume that good outcome indicators are the result of good implementation.

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