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    Combating Poverty and Inequality: structural change, social policy and politics

    United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2010
    This report explores the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty, and argues that current  approaches to poverty often ignore its root causes.
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    No revolutions without equality and justice: the struggle for women’s rights in rethinking development in the Arab region

    The World We Want, 2012
    This article considers policy practice in the Arab region, highlighting some key areas for consideration in future policy making in the region.
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    The Future Asia Pacific Women Want

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2012
    This outcome statement is from the women’s and civil society networks and organisations present at the regional dialogue on sustainable development and the post-2015 development agenda in November 2012, Bangkok.
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    Mind the gender gap: accelerating gender commitments in the MDGs and shaping the post 2015 development framework

    African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2012
    This position paper from the African women’s rights regional steering group on the post-2015 development framework builds on discussion that took place at the African women’s consultation in October 2012. It contains two sections; the first is on gender in the current MDGs, and the second looks at gender within a post-2015 framework.
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    The post-2015 development framework and the realisation of women’s rights and social justice

    Rutgers University, 2012
    This paper offers the authors’ reflections on the post-2015 development framework, including the strengths and weaknesses of the MDGs, what has changed since 2000, and the challenges of the post-2015 period. While the MDGs helped people to hold their governments to account, they had a range of weaknesses which are listed by the authors.
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    Gender in times of crisis: new development paradigm needed

    Social Watch, 2010
    Despite some progress, commitments to gender equality are far from being implemented. Uneven progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – all of which have gender dimensions – as well as increasing poverty and inequality are due not only to external shocks and crises but also to underlying structural imbalances.
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    Gender based violence primer

    Gender Action, 2011
    Gender Action, International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and Gender Based Violence (GBV) Gender Action is the only civil society organization dedicated to promoting women's rights and gender justice in IFI investments in developing countries.
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    World Bank and Inter-American Bank (IDB): Haiti post-earthquake track record on gender, agriculture and rural development

    Gender Action, 2010
    The newest global food crisis has struck at an especially vulnerable time for the world’s poor, making food increasingly unaffordable and reducing incomes of impoverished farmers, the majority of whom are women.
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    Discussion note on the triple crisis

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2012
    The current global crisis is so severe and encompasses so many areas – finance, climate, food, energy – that countries have been forced, willy-nilly, to coordinate with each other. The question is who has benefited from such coordination? What about the most vulnerable, especially those countries that already faced severe fiscal constraints even before these converging crises?
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    How do women weather economic shocks? what we know

    World Bank, 2011
    Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? First-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be more prominent in this recent economic downturn than historically because of women's increased participation in the globalized workforce. Second-round impacts result from the strategies that vulnerable households use to cope with declining income, which can vary by gender.

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