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    The Prosperity Initiative (PI)

    The Prosperity Initiative's goal is to unlock the potential of select industries, creating durable economic choice and a route out of poverty for millions of people. Key strategies:
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    Financing social protection

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    Social protection helps communities, households and individuals to protect themselves against contingencies threatening their living standard. Financing has emerged as a key constraint on the extension of social protection in developing countries.
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    Strategy of growth for substantial reduction of poverty and reversal of trend towards increasing regional divide

    Madras School of Economics, India, 2007
    In view of the increasing regional disparity alongside high rates of growth in India, this paper argues for a new model of growth which is more inclusive and even, across India’s states. 
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    Institute for International and Development Economics (IIDE)

    The Institute for International and Development Economics is a web-based non-profit research institute.
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    Poverty, growth and income distribution in Lebanon - country study

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    This country study is a modified executive summary of the full report, which is the first to draw a comprehensive profile of poverty in Lebanon based on money-metric measurements of household expenditures. Its data source is a 2004/05 national Living Conditions and Household Budget Survey.
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    Poverty reduction for profit? A critical examination of business opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2007
    The author examines C.K Prahalad’s idea that selling to four billion poor people at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) generates both profits for big business and eliminates poverty. A welcome, innovative and influential perspective, but an opportunity missed, he argues.
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    A proposed strategy for growth, employment and poverty reduction in Uzbekistan

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    What is an appropriate plan for growth, employment and poverty reduction in Uzbekistan? This paper offers such a strategy. It calls for achieving a rapid and sustainable rate of economic growth based on the expansion of domestic public and private investment. Achieving such an objective entails a heterodox package that involves:
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    Low-income households’ access to financial services

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    Formal financial sectors in most developing economies serve only a minority, often no more than 20–30 percent of the population. Most households and particularly low-income households in rural areas do not have access to basic financial services.
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    Vox

    VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites, including the Italian site LaVoce (which provided i
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    Global imbalances and developing countries: remedies for a failing international financial system

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    A major risk for the world economy, and especially for developing countries, is an abrupt unwinding of global imbalances. This volume compiles the perspectives of several authorities on international finance and macroeconomics. It has a regional focus on Africa and East Asia, and is structured into three main sections:

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