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  Macroeconomic adjustment, socio-demographic change, and the evolution of income distribution in Cote d'Ivoire: a decomposition by microsimulation

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cote d'Ivoire in the 1990s. This allows for the disentangling of the simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income.
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  Impact of globalization and liberalization on growth, employment and poverty: a case study of Pakistan

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This paper examines how globalization and liberalization effect economic growth, employment and poverty in Pakistan.
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  Rights, claims and capture: understanding the politics of pro-poor policy

  Overseas Development Institute, 2001

  Paper addresses the ways in which politics and power affect pro-poor policy.
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  Restocking and poverty alleviation: perceptions and realities of livestock-keeping among poor pastoralists in Kenya

  Livestock Development Studies Group, 2001

  This article investigates the development of decision support tools for pastoral restocking projects.
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  Enhancing rural Livelihoods through Participatory Watershed Development in India

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  India is remarkable not only in the scale of its wastelands, and in the volume of government funds committed to reversing degradation, but especially in the attempt to link environmental improvement and poverty reduction.
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  Making less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks.Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out in Malawi in 1999.Key finding is that informal transfers, either between rich and poor or the poor themselves, appear to be declining over time, partly as a general co
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  Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: evidence and policy implications

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas.
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  Aquaculture, poverty impacts and livelihoods

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  Aquaculture is often viewed narrowly as intensive culture of salmon and shrimp to provide high value products for luxury markets and is often associated with environmental degradation. The promotion of aquaculture for rural development has had a poor record in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: inception report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  This inception paper reviews recent trends in poverty, vulnerability and extension, and the policy context in which extension is located. The paper concludes that:
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  Non-farm rural livelihoods

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000

  Paper suggests that poor rural people seek livelihoods in the non-farm sector: (a) to complement seasonal agricultural incomes; (b) to supplement inadequate (or absent) agricultural incomes; and (c) to take advantage of opportunities arising in the non-farm sector.

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