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  Fractal poverty traps

  Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access, 2003

  This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the nature and causality of poverty, in order to facilitate sustained growth and poverty reduction among the poor. This paper examines two key aspects of the nature of poverty: how human well-being evolves over time, and the multi-scalar nature of poverty.
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  Investigating social vulnerability in community-based poverty monitoring in Sri Lanka: scaling down to the household level

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2004

  This paper critically examines qualitative research methodologies used for community based poverty monitoring (CBPM), as employed in two case studies in rural Sri Lanka: Hambantota district, located on the south coast, and Batticaloa district located on the east coast of the island.
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  Community based monitoring system for access to basic minimum services, Kerala

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2004

  This paper briefly outlines the approach and results so far of the Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) in Kerala, India.
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  Growth and redistribution effects of poverty changes in Cameroon: a shapley decomposition analysis

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper investigates the growth and redistribution effects of changes in poverty using Cameroon’s household surveys. Using cooperative game theory, the author develops an exact decomposition framework based on the Shapley Value.The author finds that:poverty increased significantly between 1984 and 1996.
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  Fifty years of regional inequality in China: a journey through central planning, reform, and openness

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This study makes an attempt at understanding the driving forces behind the changes in China’s regional inequality. It constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present.
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  Poverty and inequality from a gender perspective

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003

  This document reproduces chapter III of the ‘Social Panorama of Latin America, 2002-2003’, produced by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).The chapter discusses trends in poverty among women in Latin America over the 1990s.
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  Poverty by price indices

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  This paper examines in detail the premises used in the basic methodology of the Indian Planning Commission to define poverty lines in India.It examines the logistics of using available data with a view to estimating poverty transparency, while using data at a disaggregated level.
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  Poverty mapping with aggregate census data

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the loss in precision associated with using aggregated census data instead of household level data to generate poverty estimates.
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  Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: an exploratory analysis

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper addresses income inequality in the Philippines, with a special focus on the importance of spatial income inequality.
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  Bio-economic modelling for NRM impact assessment

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This paper discusses the various bio-economic modelling approaches and methods which can be used for simultaneously evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of natural resource management (NRM) technologies and policies affecting natural resource use and management in rural areas in the developing countries.

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