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  Private sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor, service delivery?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  Looks at whether the private sector development addresses the challenges faced within pro-poor development, and draws on past experience of privatisation, especially within the context of privatisation.
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  PRSP: beyond the theory: practical experiences and positions of involved civil society organisations

  Bread for the World, 2002

  This report argues that the PRSP process is built on a 'trickle-down' theory, with ‘pro-poor growth’ being put forward as a solution to poverty reduction. The emphasis here, is that countries will strive to create a conducive macro-economic environment for investment, and that the market will take care of the rest.
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  Special allocation for poverty relief infrastructure investment and Job summit projects: an overview

  Project Literacy, 2001

  This paper is a review of the special poverty allocation mechanism that was introduced in South Africa in the wake of the structural adjustment programmes. It sheds light on the problems faced by departments in the delivery of services to the poor, which are seen to be similar across various government departments.
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  Poverty in Pakistan: issues, causes and institutional responses

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  This document represents the ADB's support for the Government of Pakistan's PRSP and puts forward interventions aimed at addressing critical bottlenecks, and promoting growth in sectors or activities that have maximum poverty reduction impact.
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  Human rights approach to poverty reduction strategies: draft guidelines

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2002

  The paper outlines a set of guidelines produced by the United Nations in collaboration with several organisations for the implementation of a human rights-based approach to poverty reduction strategies The document was compiled by three experts commissioned by the UN, professors Paul Hunt, Manfred Nowak and Siddiq Osmani.
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.
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  Research review on social security reform and the basic income grant for South Africa

  Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 2002

  This paper reviews several research papers that address social security reform in South Africa, with an emphasis on the proposal for the basic income grant.
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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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  Safety nets and opportunity ladders: addressing vulnerability and enhancing productivity in South Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' in broader development goals.
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  Good practice in the development of PRSP indicators and monitoring systems

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper, produced by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), contains the key findings of a desk study commissioned by the Poverty Monitoring Task Team of the Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA).

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