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  Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting: how much does disaggregation help?

  World Bank, 2004

  Using recently completed poverty maps for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their relative poverty status.The authors findings include:that there are large gains to be achieved from targeting smaller administrative units, such as dist
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  Summary of the Regional Conference on Poverty Monitoring in Asia

  Regional Conference on Poverty Monitoring in Asia, 2004

  This paper presents a summary of key discussions and findings from a Regional Conference on Poverty Measurement in Asia.
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  Identification of the poor: flaws in government surveys

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This article challenges the basis of poverty indicators being used to determine the levels "Below the Poverty Line" (BPL) in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  Poverty in Malawi

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997-98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. The analysis develops basic needs poverty lines, using consumption-based measures of welfare to classify households and individuals as poor and non-poor. The analysis provides poverty and inequality estimates for Malawi’s population.
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  Globalization, poverty, inequality, and insecurity: some insights from the economics of happiness

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the relationship between globalisation, poverty and inequality by subjective well being or happiness studies, as well as the literature on the economics of happiness.The studies in Latin America and Russia examine how the dynamics of poverty and inequality affect well-being.
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  Methodological innovations in research on the dynamics of poverty: a mixed-method longitudinal study in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

  Conference: Q-Squared in Practice: Experiences of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal, May 2004, 2004

  This technical paper examines the methodology used in the qualitative component of a longitudinal study of poverty dynamics in rural and urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa.
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  The rise or fall of world inequality: a spurious controversy?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper explores the divergence of opinion on whether inequality in the world is rising or falling. The authors here attempt to pinpoint what drives the two extreme positions apart.
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  Economic growth and poverty reduction: do data from Indonesia support the positive correlation hypothesis?

  Center for Industrial Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, Indonesia, 2004

  Faced with poverty and economic stagnation caused by bad macroeconomic management and domestic political instability, the government of Indonesia adopted import substitution strategies to develop the capacity of domestic industries in 1969.
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  Do structural reforms always succeed?: lessons from Brazil

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper discusses Brazil’s attempts to improve sustainable growth through stabilisation programmes over the last twenty years, and more recently, structural reforms in line with the Washington Consensus Agenda.
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  Pulling apart: facts and figures on inequality in Kenya

  Society for International Development, 2004

  This paper examines various types of inequality in Kenya. The authors suggest that while inequality is staggering across Kenya, it is also very little discussed. They intend this paper to lay a foundation for a national debate on inequality.The authors examine several dimensions of inequality in Kenya, including:how inequalities in Kenya are manifested in different forms.

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