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  Economic Report on Africa 2004

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004

  The Economic Report on Africa (ERA) 2004 examines general and regional statistics on economic growth in Africa and concludes that while African countries have marked significant economic growth, they are far from meeting their Millennium Development Goal targets. Additionally, they are not growing fast enough to eliminate poverty.
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  World Economic Situation and Prospects 2004

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2004

  This paper argues that despite setbacks in world economic growth due to SARS and the prospect of war in Iraq, the world economy is making a comeback. The authors state that the strength of the current recovery is still heavily dependent on policy ensuring low interest rates and expansionary fiscal measures.
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  Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2004

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004

  This report proposes that despite economic growth in the Asia and Pacific region in 2003, driven largely by intraregional trade and domestic demand, there remain many obstacles to poverty reduction in the area. The authors examine various countries' poverty reduction strategies within the Asia and Pacific region, in light of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
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  Civil society budget monitoring for national accountability

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This report is based on a three day budget tracking workshop held in Malawi in February 2004 which brought together individuals and representatives of organisations involved in budget monitoring, or developing monitoring processes and tools, with a view to developing a supportive community of practice.Issues highlighted in this report include:budget making is where the real prioritisat
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  Pro-poor growth strategies in Africa: a proposed easy reference guide (ERG) to engender national accounts and national budget

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This document argues for the integration of women's non- market work (NMW) into the system of national accounting accross Africa.
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  The Uganda Budget 2003/2004: what relevance to the poverty situation?

  Uganda Debt Network, 2003

  This paper analyses how Uganda's current budget policies conform to the poverty eradication policies as enshrined in the revised Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP).
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  Argentina: a decade of currency board: an analysis of growth, employment, and income distribution

  Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, 2002

  The macroeconomic regime in Argentina underwent major changes in the 1990s, including the introduction of the convertibility exchange rate regime; privatisation of publicly-owned firms; and a move towards more openness of trade and finance.This paper uses macroeconomic models and microeconomic simulations to assess the ways in which the various changes in the macroeconomic climate impacted on e
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  Decentralisation and poverty in developing countries: exploring the impact

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper finds that the link between decentralisation and poverty reduction cannot be clearly established. It argues that in some of the poorest countries characterised by weak institutions and political conflicts, decentralisation could actually make matters worse.
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  Differences in wages between men and women in Argentina today. Is there an “inverse” gender wage gap?

  Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, Buenos Aires, 2003

  Previous research in Argentina has, unexpectedly, appeared to show that female hourly wages were higher than male hourly wages.

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