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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, Poverty analysis in China, India

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    Shame, social exclusion and the effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    A two year qualitative investigation of the nature and consequences of shame associated with poverty was conducted in seven settings located in rural Uganda and India; urban China, Pakistan, Korea and United Kingdom; and small town and urban Norway.
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    The dynamic south, economic development and inclusive growth: the challenges ahead

    The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, 2013
    High wage inequality is a major policy concern in Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Recent literature points to the need to examine the role of minimum wages or unionisation and their links to inequality within labour markets and the role of social protection.
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    Some recent experience in community voice card: an innovative tool towards assessing service delivery for MDGs

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2007
    The key to attaining the first seven MDGs lies with local stakeholders. Participatory monitoring is therefore an important means to assess progress towards these goals. Community voice tools (CVT) applied in India (West Bengal), Nepal, Moldova and China assess MDG related projects by collecting local stakeholders' judgements on:
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    Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.
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    Has world poverty really fallen during the 1990s?

    Social Science Research Network, 2005
    This paper evaluates the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen during the 1990s in light of alternative assumptions about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the developing world.Using two international poverty lines ($1.08/day and $2.15/day 1993 PPP) the authors argue that under many assumptions, the developing w
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    Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

    World Bank, 2004
    This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.
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    Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world)

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2003
    This paper empirically explores the contradictions and inadequacies of measurements of growth and inequality between national accounts and surveys. It explores the reasons as to why there is divergence of results from national accounts and survey-based estimates of consumption.