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    Social protection in Asia and the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002
    The publication is a practical and comprehensive manual for policy-makers and professionals in the field.
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    Better livelihoods for poor people: the role of land policy

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    This DFID consultation paper examines the importance of land, land rights and land reform in developing countries, and considers how land policies can contribute to poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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    How, when and why does poverty get budget priority: poverty reduction strategy and public expenditure in five African countries

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    Summary produced by the Governance Resource Centre.It has become a part of the conventional wisdom of development policy that poverty reduction is one of the main development objectives.
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    Sector programmes and PRSP implementation: chances and challenges

    Sector Wide Approaches in the Health Sector, 2001
    Within the context of the Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA), the potentialities and inherent weaknesses of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process are being analysed and evaluated with regard to the specific circumstances in African countries. With the increasing momentum of the PRSP process the focus is moving from the preparation stage to the implementation of the PRSP.
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    Programme support and public finance management: a new role for bilateral donors in poverty strategy work

    SIDA Studies, 2002
    Development assistance provided by international donors must be administered effectively if it is to achieve a lasting reduction in poverty. This study, produced by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), highlights the importance of setting up good public finance management systems in recipient countries so this goal can be met.
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    Botswana National Land Policy

    Oxfam, 2002
    This Bostwana government report examines the linkages between land rights and both rural and urban poverty in Botswana, which constitute a strong element of the Bostwana PRSP. Its basis for this arises out of a need to adjust the land policy and land laws, administration and management to the changes being brought about by economic development and associated urbanisation in Botswana.
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    Anti-poverty programs [in the Philippines]

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Poverty is one of the perennial problems that all administrations in the Philippines had to deal with. The basic concern of this case study is to examine the nature, extent, and impact of civil society participation in both the Social Reform Council (SRC) and the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC).
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    The importance of land tenure to poverty eradication and sustainable development in Africa: Summary of findings

    Oxfam, 1997
    This paper draws out the key links between land tenure and poverty eradication.
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    Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

    Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
    Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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    Making connections: infrastructure for poverty reduction

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    A review of a range of national Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) shows recognition of the link between poverty and infrastructure services in general terms, but a tendency to treat separately, with different strategies and timescales, two levels of infrastructure.

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