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  The global distribution of risk factors by poverty level

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization highlights the association between poverty and major risk factors for ill-health. Research was focused on people in low and middle income countries within each of the World Health Organization (WHO) sub-regions.
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  School meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation

  World Bank Research, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of subsidised school meals on preschool participation, educational achievement, and school finance in Kenya.Findings from the study include:the meals programme led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively experienced prior to the programmethe school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class siz
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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.
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  Forging partnership for social protection in South and East Asia

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper represents a summary of the discussions from a workshop that sought to identify useful models, case studies and best practices that would be useful in building and maintaining viable systems for social protection. The results of the workshop are intended to feed into developing strategy to rebuild social protection systems after decades of neglect.
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  A missing point in the livelihoods approach: the question of property rights

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper explores the relationship between property rights and livelihoods.
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  Option values, switches and wages: an analysis of the employment guarantee scheme in India

  School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, 2004

  This paper argues that the value of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra and its impact on workers’ behaviour do not depend so much on income supplementation as on enlargement of opportunities in an uncertain environment of the local labour market.
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  Widows, AIDS, health and human rights in Africa: case study from Tanzania

  Social Science Research Network, 2004

  Widows, in Tanzania and many other parts of the world, face discrimination on a regular basis, which often condemns women to a life of poverty.
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  Drought and farmers’ coping strategies in poverty-afflicted rural China

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper explores the nature of drought risks in southern China through estimating the cost of drought and gaining some insight into farmers’ coping strategies.
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  The role of fairness concerns in social protection and poverty reduction (Draft)

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This article studies differing notions of fairness between external and local actors and how they affect social protection systems and poverty reduction initiatives. Within social protection systems, the authors define effectiveness as being related to targeting, while within poverty reduction initiatives, effectiveness relates to the extent to which relations are maintainted with poor people.
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  Shocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  This paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. It also investigates the circumstances under which poor households are pushed into poverty traps from which recovery is not possible.

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