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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, Household poverty, Poverty analysis in Brazil

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    A note on measuring unemployment

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    In developing countries, official measures of unemployment are often low due to the extent of informal employment , whose workers consider themselves to be employed.
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    Poverty among women in Latin America: feminisation or over-representation?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    The concept of the feminisation of poverty (the extent and multi-faceted impacts of poverty on women) has become widely accepted among women's advocates. This paper questions the usefulness of resources invested in policies based on this concept.The prime objective of the paper is to investigate the occurrence of this feminisation.
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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.