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  Options for rural poverty reduction in Central America

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  In the light of the reduction in aid for rural development (RD) during the 1990s, and only very slow improvement of conditions in rural areas, this paper asks, what can be done to identify better RD strategies?
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  Poverty reduction, equity and climate change: challenges for global governance

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper first focuses on the poverty and sustainable development issues of climate change, considering the potential and limitations of win-win poverty and environmental options. It concludes by assessing strategies for linking poverty, equity and environmental outcomes.Policy conclusions include‘Equity’ is key to future North-South cooperation in climate change ‘mitigation’.
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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.
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  Tools to support participatory urban decision making

  United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2001

  This toolkit to support participatory urban decision-making was prepared as part of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance, a campaign led by UN-HABITAT in collaboration with a whole range of partners, which seeks to contribute to the eradication of poverty through improved urban governance.The toolkit provides information on a continuously growing set of urban management tools which are relat
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  Poverty, survival and democracy in Southern Africa

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002

  The prospect of sustaining democratic government in a poor society is far lower than in a relatively wealthy one, so why does poverty appear to undermine democracy?
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  Borderline slavery: child trafficking in Togo

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report documents the trafficking of children in Togo, in particular the trafficking of girls into domestic and market work and the trafficking of boys into agricultural work.Hundreds of children are trafficked annually in Togo, either sent from, received in or transited through the country.
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  Globalisation and dimensions of poverty

  Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 2003

  What is the impact on poverty of prevailing globalisation? Is the globalisation process a neutral economic phenomenon that can be harnessed to benefit everyone, or is it a conquest-like political process intrinsically slanted to benefit the few? This report looks at these crucial questions in the present globalisation debate.
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  Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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  Thinking strategically about politics and poverty

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This synthesis of a large research exercise offers a series of guidelines for thinking about specific cases. The most general guideline is 'don't be (so) gloomy'. Political analysis does not serve only to explain why desirable outcomes are sometimes difficult to achieve. Good analysis also tells us about the wide range of opportunities that exist for pro-poor policies.
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  Social Fund: an effective instrument to support local action for poverty reduction?

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  Argues that social funding could modify existing patterns of participation and local power relations, which in turn could lead to new forms of exclusion. There are certain elements ,or conditions that need to be considered more carefully if social funds are to be designed well.

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