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  Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions of Welfare

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Subjective poverty lines—based on the self-assessed adequacy of a family's food, housing, and clothing—accord closely on average with independent "objective" poverty lines.
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  Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Should child labor be banned outright? Should the World Trade Organization be given the responsibility to discourage child labor using trade sanctions? The answer to this complicated problem depends on the economic milieu.At least 120 million of the world's children aged 5 to 14 worked full-time in 1995, most of them under hazardous, unhygienic conditions, for more than 10 hours a day.
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  Participatory Project Design: Its Implications for Evaluation. A Case Study from El Salvador

  Mosaic.net International, Inc., 1995

  Draws lessons from a project designed in El Salvador based on participatory principles and how this can be applied to the field of evaluation. Indeed, evaluations using participatory approaches can be more effective when the project has been designed in a participatory manner from the beginning.
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  Welfare in transition: trends in poverty and well-being in Central Asia

  Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1999

  Examines the impact of the transition from a planned to a market economy on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, along with the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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  Guidance Notes on Increasing the Participation of the Poor in the Assessment of the Impact of Development Interventions

  Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 1997

  These guidance notes cover three areas: Objectives: Justifications for the involvement of primary stakeholders in impact assessment Identifying achievements: How efforts to do so can be assessedMethods: How it can be done. Produced for ActionAid and DFID in 1997.
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  Impact of Access to Credit on the Poor: Research Design and Baseline Survey for a Longitudinal Study

  Banking with the Poor Network, 1998

  Presents the baseline survey for a study of the impact of microfinance services offered by Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI). ASKI is a microfinance institution based in Cabanatuan City in the Philippines, and is a member of the BWTP Network.The baseline survey is the first step in a longitudinal process.
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  UNDP Human Development Report 1999

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  Focuses on issues of inter-dependence and globalisation. Considers how markets have been allowed to dominate the process, and the benefits and opportunities have not been shared equitably. Argues that while many millions of people are being further marginalized by their lack of access to new technologies, including the Internet, growing inequalities are not inevitable.
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  What's Special About Wildlife Management In Forests?: Concepts And Models Of Rights-Based Management, With Recent Evidence From West-Central Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Wildlife consumption is an integral part of the livelihood and trade patterns of many peoples in the developing world, and highly valued by them. Yet to date the dominant models of wildlife management in areas of high – and allegedly unsustainable – consumptive use have favoured the exclusion of the users from the resource and the denial of its local values.
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  Knowledge and Information for Food Security in Africa: from traditional Media to the Internet

  Communication for Development (ComDev), FAO, 1998

  Draws on experiences with a range of communication technologies in Africa - from traditional media to the Internet - to examine the important role of knowledge and information for food security.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.

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