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    The people's budget?: politics, power, popular participation and pro-poor economic policy

    Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2004
    People’s budgets, alternative budgets, women’s budgets, and participatory budgeting have raised hopes and expectations that spending and revenue generation can be made “pro-poor” by increasing the participation of citizens, NGOs, and other civil society organizations. In some instances, these hopes appear to be borne out.
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    The impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
    This paper assesses whether or not the trade liberalisation process in Brazil had any effect on both the reduction in the wage differential between formal and informal workers and the fall in the proportion of formal workers.
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    Neither war nor peace

    Children and youth in Organised Armed Violence, 2005
    This study identifies a number of regions affected by children and youth in organised armed violence (COAV), exploring causes and trends of the problem as well as suggesting policy oriented guidelines for policy makers within the international forum for the implementation of practical steps to treat COAV.
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    Globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets

    Bank for International Settlements, 2005
    This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets.
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    In Focus: Celso Furtado

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
    The April 2005 issue of In Focus is dedicated to Brazilian economist Celso Furtado, who so much influenced contemporary notions of under-development. Furtado passed away November 20, 2004, at age 84. To honor Furtado’s intellectual journey and public trajectory, In Focus features contributions from a variety of prestigious contributors.
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    Can local governments generate enough revenue to deliver services?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Lack of finance greatly constrains municipalities’ ability to deliver services to poor people. Public finance literature has paid little attention to the potential for redistribution at local government level.
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    How does fiscal policy affect monetary policy in emerging market countries?

    Bank for International Settlements, 2005
    Based on empirical evidence on the relation between fiscal and monetary policy, this paper analyses how fiscal policy affects monetary policy in emerging economies (EM). The paper highlights that fiscal dominance can be, or become, an important issue for EMs, as these economies have, in recent years, experienced an increase in public debt and fiscal imbalance.
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    Exploring the structured dynamics of chronic poverty: a sociological approach

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004
    The dominant forms of international poverty research involve statistical analyses of household surveys and 'qualitative' information produced using 'participatory' techniques. The expertises of other social scientists are rarely used to inform development policy.
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    The Doha development agenda: impacts on trade and poverty

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    This series of briefing papers summarises of the principal issues of the WTO round, how the outcome might affect poverty, the progress of the negotiations, and the impact on four very different countries.Briefing papers are:“Trade liberalisation and poverty reduction” analyses potential Doha reforms and their poverty reduction effects“Principal issues in the Doha negotiations” pres
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    Impact of working time on children’s health

    Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004
    This working paper examines the relationship between the intensity of children’s work in terms of weekly working hours and children’s health outcomes. It also includes an analysis of the sector of work.

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