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  Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  Contrary to the popular belief that rural and urban areas are essentially separate entities, this papers examines the important links that exist between the two. Despite the many potential benefits, the importance of local and regional urban centres to rural livelihoods remains largely under-researched.
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  School feeding programs: why they should be scaled up now

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2004

  This brief discusses the effectiveness of school feeding programmes, how they address constraints to education, and how they can be scaled up.The paper argues that in-school feeding reduces short-term hunger; they provide micronutrient-fortified meals early in the school day; food can be used in several ways to address access issues; it can address health and nutrition needs of school-age child
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  Emerging trends in urban livelihoods

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005

  This paper is part of a larger research project that aims to identify indicators of upward or downward movements in the continuum of poverty in Afghanistan, and to isolate characteristics and determinants that shape and differentiate various situations of the urban poor in Afghanistan.
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  Caste discrimination and the private sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005

  This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.
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  Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate and reproduce these inequalities.
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  Medium-term effects of the Oportunidades program package, including nutrition, on education of rural children age 0-8 in 1997

  Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005

  This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Evaluation Survey.The main findings include: the age group 3 to 5 in 1997 most likely did not benefit from the early nutritional intervention and also by 2003
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  How does working as a child affect wage, income and poverty as an adult?

  World Bank, 2005

  This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour.
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  Why is mobility in India so low?: social insurance, inequality, and growth

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual insurance to their members.
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  Policy paper on social protection

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This paper, produced by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) for DFID, examines mechanisms for social protection in low income countries, clarifying the meaning of social protection and its role within poverty reduction.
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  Street vendors in Asia: a review

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  This study reviews research on street vendors in Asia in order to assess the extent of street vending across x Asian countries. It also collates information on the unionisation of the vendors as well as other organisations, comprising CBOs, NGOs & self help groups, that work for their welfare.

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