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  Rethinking Inequality Decomposition, with Evidence from Rural China

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Introduces a new, integrated regression-based approach for decomposing inequality indices with household-level data, and examines the strengths and weaknesses of inequality decompositions by income source in light of the way that they are commonly interpreted. The approach uses estimated income flows from variables in linear income equations to decompose aggregate inequality indices.
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  Promises to the Poor: the Record of European Development Agencies

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  All the European development cooperation agencies subscribe to the international goal of reducing poverty by one half by 2015 but they have different strategies for achieving it.
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  Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.
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  The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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  Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.
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  Population and Poverty: the Policy Issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998

  Discussion paper aims at a policy-relevant understanding of the population-poverty relationship.
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  How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

  OECD Development Centre, 1998

  In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.
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  Unemployment Insurance and Emergency Employment Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

  1999

  A sort of conventional wisdom seems to be coalescing around the notion that unemployment insurance and emergency employment programs should be the tools of choice to deal with economy-wide shocks.
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  Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.
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  The Poor and their Money: what have we learned?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Money markets ought to allocate finance where it is most needed, and thus contribute to greater productivity, employment and the reduction of poverty. Yet in practice they have not performed this function at all well. Vast segments of the population are still unserved, inappropriate financial services are offered and inflexible contracts are extended.

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