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  Poverty, voice and advocacy: a Haitian study

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  Over the past ten years, Fonkoze (a non-profit organisation in Haiti) has adapted the 'graduation' model of lifting families out of extreme poverty through its Chemen Lavi Miyò (CLM) or 'pathway to a better life' programme. Yet despite international recognition for this approach, Fonkoze’s work is little known within Haitian policy circles on social protection and poverty.
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  Micro-level food insecurity in contemporary India: perspectives of the food insecure

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007

  This paper examines food insecurity within contemporary India at the micro level. It focuses on the temporal dimension of food insecurity in terms of seasonality and inter-month variations in food consumed, and in the variety, palate and nutritional content of the people’s diet.
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  Urban poverty and development in the 21st century: towards an inclusive and sustainable world

  Oxfam, 2006

  As of 2007, more people will live in cities than in rural areas, a proportion that is set to increase in years to come. In light of this, this paper argues that urban planning and urban development policies are crucial to the creation of an environmentally stable global society and discusses what can be done to promote more inclusive and sustainable cities.
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  Urban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

  Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006

  This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".
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  "Hearing the voices of the poor": assigning poverty lines on the basis of local perceptions of poverty; a quantitative analysis of qualitative data from participatory wealth ranking in rural South Africa

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005

  The authors of this paper argue that participatory wealth ranking (PWR) may be a useful tool to generate a thorough appraisal of poverty on a scale suitable for the generation of statistics that can be used to inform policy.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Investigating social vulnerability in community-based poverty monitoring in Sri Lanka: scaling down to the household level

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2004

  This paper critically examines qualitative research methodologies used for community based poverty monitoring (CBPM), as employed in two case studies in rural Sri Lanka: Hambantota district, located on the south coast, and Batticaloa district located on the east coast of the island.
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  Priorities of the poor in Papua New Guinea

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  This participatory poverty assessment provides an overview of the nature, trends and causes of poverty in Papua New Guinea.Priorities which the poor identified for future poverty reduction programmes include:access to jobs and other ways to earn cashaccess to land for farmingaccess to education, water supply, health care, transport and marketsskills training on small busine
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  Medical expenditure and rural impoverishment in China

  Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 2003

  Due to escalating medical costs and lack of insurance coverage, medical spending causes financial hardship for many rural families in China, despite continued economic growth and increasing income in the country as a whole. This paper, published in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, reviews the escalation of medical costs and lack of insurance coverage.
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  Zambia's District participatory poverty assessment: summary report

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This summary report aims to uncover the poverty situation in nine selected districts in Zambia, with a view to laying the ground for future monitoring of the country's PRSP. It sheds light on perceptions and definitions of poverty, its causes, its multi-dimensional and seasonal nature as well as perceived poverty levels and trends.

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