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  School meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation

  World Bank Research, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of subsidised school meals on preschool participation, educational achievement, and school finance in Kenya.Findings from the study include:the meals programme led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively experienced prior to the programmethe school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class siz
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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.
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  Forging partnership for social protection in South and East Asia

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper represents a summary of the discussions from a workshop that sought to identify useful models, case studies and best practices that would be useful in building and maintaining viable systems for social protection. The results of the workshop are intended to feed into developing strategy to rebuild social protection systems after decades of neglect.
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  A missing point in the livelihoods approach: the question of property rights

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper explores the relationship between property rights and livelihoods.
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  Option values, switches and wages: an analysis of the employment guarantee scheme in India

  School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, 2004

  This paper argues that the value of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra and its impact on workers’ behaviour do not depend so much on income supplementation as on enlargement of opportunities in an uncertain environment of the local labour market.
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  Non-contributory pensions and poverty reduction in Brazil and South Africa

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper considers the incidence of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using comparable datasets the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes.
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  Doing business with the poor: a field guide

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2004

  This guide presents a number of practical guidelines for businesses intending to engage in business with the poor. It primarily seeks to inform how to develop and engage in these new business opportunities and how to "do well by doing good".
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  Widows, AIDS, health and human rights in Africa: case study from Tanzania

  Social Science Research Network, 2004

  Widows, in Tanzania and many other parts of the world, face discrimination on a regular basis, which often condemns women to a life of poverty.
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  Winners and losers as Indian villages enter the wider economy

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The opening up of the village economy is irrevocably altering rural livelihoods in village India. Market forces are drawing many rural households out of relative poverty. However, the transformation of patron-client relationships into fluid business transactions has caused simultaneous movements into and out of poverty.
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  Drought and farmers’ coping strategies in poverty-afflicted rural China

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper explores the nature of drought risks in southern China through estimating the cost of drought and gaining some insight into farmers’ coping strategies.

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