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| | The Ethics of Poverty Reduction |
 | | A positive meaning of the term poverty indicates that the poor are not able to do certain things, for example, the poor cannot afford to pay for a diner at a restaurant or the poor cannot pay for certain goods sold by a particular corporation. | | | Poverty has come back on the political agenda, nationally as well as internationally. | | | An imperative meaning of poverty indicates that certain elements are essential to people's lives; their absence means an ethically intolerable destitution. |
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http://www.svf.uib.no/sif/kurs_v2002.html
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| | Urban Poverty Reduction Strategies |
| | Poverty reduction strategies require policy actions in the areas of: tenure security, land development regulations and service provision. | | | The different dimensions of poverty and their causal factors underscore the need for policy and institutional reforms at the national as well as the city level, in order to design and achieve sustainable and replicable improvements in the conditions facing the poor. | | | Policy and institutional reforms also promote the longer-term scope for poverty reduction by fostering broad-based economic growth of cities through efficient and well-integrated markets for labor, land and housing, responsive urban governance, and capable urban management. |
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http://www.urbanicity.org/FullDoc.asp?ID=379
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| | Poverty reduction |
| | Poverty at a national level means a country may have insufficient economic resources to invest in education, health, infrastructure, political, legal systems and public institutions which can lead to instability and civil unrest. | | | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) describe a country's macroeconomic, structural and social policies and programs to promote growth and reduce poverty, as well as associated external financing needs. | | | This is because it measures costs which may not impact on a household level, and it fails to consider such costs as unpaid labour and environmental damage. |
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http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page181.html
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| | Poverty Reduction in Pakistan - ADB.org |
| | The quality of governance is critical to poverty reduction. | | | Beyond income and basic services, individual and societies are also poor, and tend to remain so, if they are not empowered to participate in making decisions that shape their lives. | | | As the Asian crisis has shown, good governance is also essential to avoid or reduce the severity of economic crises in an era of increasing liberalization and globalization. |
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http://www.adb.org/PRM/povertyred.asp
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| | Africa: G7 on Poverty Reduction |
| | With the dramatic change in the world economy that has come as a result of the rapid progress in globalization, it is vital that the international community take action to ensure that developing countries have the opportunity to benefit from the forces of globalization and to play their role in the world economic system. | | | This figure will be further increased by the reduction in Official Development Assistance (ODA) debt which we agreed at Cologne and by the commitment we have now made to grant 100 per cent debt forgiveness on eligible commercial debt owed to us by HIPCs which achieve debt reduction under the initiative. | | | The link between debt relief, economic and social policy reforms and poverty reduction in the HIPC process is made through the development of comprehensive Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). |
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http://www.africaaction.org/docs00/g7-0007.htm
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| | German aid for poverty reduction |
| | Each sector paper is to refer to the relevance and the possibilities for poverty reduction in its context taking into account the nature of poverty reduction as cross-cutting task which is to be implemented in all sectors and fields of assistance. | | | Despite the fact that all assistance for self-help-oriented poverty reduction is in the form of grants, loans have a relatively high share in other fields related to poverty reduction (for instance, some projects in basic education and in the water sector). | | | Poverty reduction plays a prominent role in the country strategy papers of the BMZ, and the management of poverty reduction at the country programming level has become a priority task of the country divisions. |
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http://www.euforic.org/projects/povcasde.htm
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| | Fuel poverty reduction target |
| | A household is in fuel poverty if, in order to maintain a satisfactory heating regime, it would be required to spend more than 10 per cent of its income (including Housing Benefit or Income Support for Mortgage Interest) on all household fuel use. | | | Since the heating and installation were installed, the couple have made considerable savings on their heating bills and for the first time, ended their payment year in credit. | | | The Scottish Ministers must prepare and publish a statement setting out the measures which they and local authorities have taken, are taking, and intend to take for the purposes of ensuring, so far as reasonably practicable, that persons do not live in fuel poverty. |
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2002/08/SESJ046.aspx
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| | Poverty-Reduction |
| | Now that many countries are entering the implementation phase of their Poverty Reduction Strategies, these weaknesses urgently require constructive attention. | | | The review confirmed the PRSP to be a valuable approach to poverty reduction, involving a broad base of societal actors. | | | What are the appropriate roles of the state and public budgets, of the private sector, or internal capital formation and of foreign direct investment? |
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http://www.gtz.de/poverty-Conference
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| | Poverty Reduction - ADB.org |
| | These goals are consistent with the comprehensive approach to poverty reduction adopted by the ADB under the PRS and will be used as benchmarks for tracking poverty reduction results. | | | Working with other bilateral and multilateral partners is not limited to fund raising for poverty reduction. | | | These investments go to a variety of sectors and address a number of crosscutting issues. |
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http://www.asiandevbank.org/Poverty/overview.asp
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| | Roads and Poverty Reduction |
| | Remaining roads, not meeting this criterion, but considered essential from the standpoint of network coherence and access, may be ranked, in close collaboration with stakeholders, according to a simple effectiveness criterion such as total population served relative to the costs of provision. | | | Poverty reduction demands criteria which explicitly seek out the poor and isolated and propose solutions tailored to their needs. | | | If this is so, a minimal programme of road improvement to connect them to the core network can be agreed upon and costed. |
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http://www.ruralroads.org/poverty.html
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| | Poverty Reduction Strategy Project |
| | Includes overview of municipal government structure, examples of cities that have used various functions and capacities in new ways to address poverty, and case studies of cities that have taken a holistic approach to equity and poverty reduction. | | | There are more working people in poverty, poverty rates in the suburbs are increasing and, if regional cost of living differences are taken into account, the number of Americans in poverty is much higher than assumed. | | | The lessons learned and conclusions from these three lines of research will be used to suggest strategic approaches that municipal governments could take to address poverty which would be based on city capacities and assets and which could be sustainable. |
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http://www.nlc.org/resources_for_cities/programs___services/304.cfm
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| | UNDP Armenia: Poverty Reduction |
| | Starting from 2000, with the elaboration of the Poverty Reduction Strategy and the subscription of Armenia's authorities to the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals, aiming at the reduction of extreme poverty by half by 2015, a qualitative shift was made in public policies towards pro-poor targeted strategies. | | | To contribute to poverty reduction and to promote sustainable forms of human development through community-based development in collaboration with local government bodies, civil society, private sector (including Diaspora) and the international donor community. | | | The main aim of the Project is to help ensure effective implementation of the country's newly adopted Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme (PRSP) by strengthening the capacity of national authorities and civil society organisations in the key areas of methodology, policy-oriented analysis, impact assessment and pro-poor policy design. |
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http://www.undp.am/?page=poverty
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| | The Róbinson Rojas Archive: pobreza, pauvrete, poverty, Academic Tuition Monitoring Evaluation Analysis Information on ... |
| | This article focuses on the fiscal feasibility of a plan for global inequality reduction, a project that can be defined as a large-scale historic social process of social change aiming to diminish ‘oligarchic wealth’ in favour of a less extremely unbalanced structure of distribution, that is, ‘democratic wealth’. | | | Poverty reduction and the World Bank: progress in fiscal 1998 | | | These are the issues explored by Horst Köhler — now Germany’s President and previously the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. |
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http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/dev2000.htm
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| | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) - All Documents Sorted by Country |
| | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) are prepared by the member countries through a participatory process involving domestic stakeholders as well as external development partners, including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. | | | Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Preparation Status Report, December 24, 2001 | | | Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Preparation Status Report, December 28, 2001 |
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http://www.imf.org/external/np/prsp/prsp.asp
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| | Poverty and Transport |
| | Accordingly, the Transport Sector Board has taken the decision that the role of transport in poverty reduction should be established from this broader perspective. | | | These initiatives stress the need for the Bank to establish balance between macroeconomic and human development objectives, integration across sectors, and partnerships that are based in government ownership and broad consultation. | | | These include the introduction of the CDF, the outcome-based approach to the CAS, the formulation of joint Bank - IMF Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, and the WDR 2000/1, centered on the theme of "Attacking Poverty". |
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http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/transport/pov&tra.htm
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| | Publications |
| | Depending on the needs of each country, one or more of the options discussed could be used to define a rural poverty reduction agenda on a case-by-case basis. | | | The proposals made in this document are consistent with a number of strategic initiatives already drawn up or in preparation by the Bank, in particular those aimed at poverty reduction (IDB 1997), promotion of microenterprises (IDB 1996a), development of indigenous communities, rural finance (IDB 1998a), and sustainable agriculture (IDB 1998a). | | | During the past 30 years, the Bank has financed approximately 40 rural development projects for over one billion dollars (Figure 1 and Annex 1), which represents about 10% of total financing for rural, agriculture, fisheries and forestry projects. |
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http://www.iadb.org/sds/publication/publication_139_e.htm
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| | Poverty Reduction / Alleviation - ADB.org |
| | Participatory Poverty Assessment of the Tonle Sap (Financed by the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund) | | | Poverty Reduction and Rural Renewable Energy Development (Financed by the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund) | | | A Study of the Impact of Land Reform on Agriculture, Poverty Reduction, and Environment (Financed by the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund) |
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http://www.asiandevbank.org/Projects/reports.asp?key=subj&val=TAR&scpe=188
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| | Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) are prepared by the member countries through a participatory process involving domestic stakeholders as well as external development partners, including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. | | | Structural Adjustment Programs, and are documents required by the IMF and World Bank before a country can be considered for debt relief within the | | | Washington Consensus, and that these policies tend to increase poverty rather than decreasing it. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_Reduction_Strategy_Paper
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| | Poverty Reduction |
| | The report draws attention to the complex cultural conditions that underlie gender-based reforms in education, health and law necessary to fight poverty in the developing world. | | | Good Governance Resource Center of University of Birmingham: Good governance is considered key to poverty reduction. | | | Maricel Genzola, CDS2 Poverty Alleviation Specialist, has provided you with some reference materials on the different housing assistance schemes available both from government and from private institutions. |
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http://www.cdsea.org/CDSCOnsultants/povred.asp
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| | DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction |
| | It is also essential for global security and prosperity and for reducing environmental stresses. | | | The accelerating pace of economic integration among nations will fuel future growth in incomes and jobs. | | | Although Asia has advanced rapidly, it still accounts for most of the world's poor. |
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http://www.oecd.org/document/1/0,2340,en_2649_34621_1885953_1_1_1_37413,00.html
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| | Energy and Poverty Reduction |
| | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) will be prepared by countries and will; | | | How should a developing country government, concerned with tackling poverty among its citizens, think about its role in the energy sector? | | | of the Sourcebook proposes a framework focused on comprehensive energy development goals having to do with access, reliability, fiscal stability, governance and health and environment and links these to the different poverty dimensions of income, capability, security and empowerment. |
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http://www.esmap.org/esmap/site.nsf/pages/energypovertyreduction
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| | Poverty Reduction is now at the centre of development activities through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in which a global commitment was made to reduce poverty by 50% by 2015, and has become the overarching objective for both national and international stakeholders. | | | Eurodad's work on Poverty Reduction Policies focuses on International Financial Institutions' (IFI) strategies, currently the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach, as an alternative to Structural Adjustment. The major challenge is to achieve cohesion between macroeconomic and structural policies and social sector strategies. | | | Summary of Eurodad's work on Poverty Reduction Policies |
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http://www.eurodad.org/workareas/default.aspx?id=74
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| | Eldis - PRSP Watching |
| | It assesses the extent to which Bank interventions have contributed to growth and poverty reduction and the.... | | | This report describes and analyses the challenges posed by the monitoring and evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budget support programmes. | | | To what extent has the PRSP contributed to sustained poverty reduction in Zambia? |
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http://www.eldis.org/poverty/prsp.htm
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| | Reduction in Global Poverty |
| | But it is clear that recently, most poverty reduction has been going on in Asia, where free market reforms are accelerating economies. | | | You can see the reduction in percentage of people in poverty, as well as a slight reduction in the actual number of people in poverty. | | | This image is from an article in The Economist discussing reduction in global poverty. |
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http://www.econotarian.org/1096421915
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| | Rural Poverty Report 2001 - The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty |
| | This needs to be complemented by better partnership among government, civil society and the private sector so that the poor are empowered to take responsibility for their own development. | | | Eradicating Rural Poverty: Moving from a Micro to a Macro Policy Agenda - by Rehman Sobhan (63KB) | | | A sustainable reduction in poverty calls for the creation of a pro-poor policy environment, and allocation of a greater volume of resources targeted to the poor with greater effectiveness. |
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http://www.ifad.org/poverty
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| | Reducing Poverty and Sustaining Growth: A Global Exchange |
| | James D. Wolfensohn concluded that although the international community has the knowledge and resources to meet the Millennium Development Goals on poverty reduction, it will not be an easy task. | | | Scaling Up Poverty Reduction: A Global Learning Process, and Conference in Shanghai, May 25-27, 2004 | | | During the conference Several heads of state made statements on scaling up poverty reduction |
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http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/reducingpoverty
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| | Building poverty reduction strategies |
| | Comprehensive in recognizing the multidimensional nature of poverty, but also prioritized so that implementation is feasible, in both fiscal and institutional terms | | | Based on a long-term perspective for poverty reduction | | | Further, the multidimensional nature of poverty (low income, poor health and education, gender, insecurity, powerlessness, etc) needs to be carefully considered |
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http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC8291.htm
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| | University of Zimbabwe - Institute of Development Studies |
| | involves comminities in the debates on poverty reduction | | | debating and anlysing issues that will reduce poverty and improve monitoring | | | creation of an accessible focal point on poverty and related issues |
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http://www.uz.ac.zw/units/ids/poverty.html
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| | Asiabooks Catalogue - Vietnam |
| | Themes include the success of Vietnam's Doi-Moi in the early 1990s, the slowdown of economic growth in recent years, the rapidly changing external environment due to globalisation, and the growing environmental degradation and income inequality. | | | The spectrum of topics covered include macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade, agriculture, education, communication, institutional reforms, income distribution and poverty measurement. | | | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/ETHNIC MINORITIES AND POVERTY REDUCTION - VIET NAM. |
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http://www.asiabooks.gil.com.au/catalogue/vietnam_01.html
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| | Urban Poverty |
| | Because of the multidimensional nature of urban poverty, the policy response must also cover a range of issues including; land, housing, and urban services, financial markets, labor markets and employment, social protection and social services  and the environment. | | | Urban poverty policy and programs benefit greatly when they are linked to locally designed city development strategies  and when they are integrated into national poverty alleviation priorities ( poverty reduction strategy papers). | | | This paper summarizes the main issues in conducting urban poverty analysis, with a focus on presenting a sample of case studies from urban areas that were implemented by a number of different agencies using a range of analytical approaches for studying urban poverty. |
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http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTURBANDEVELOPMENT/EXTURBANPOVERTY/0,,menuPK:341331~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:341325,00.html
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| | He recommended that sustainable development initiatives in the region have clear timeframes and indicators, and address critical issues, including environmental protection, energy, water supply, sanitation, poverty eradication, and conflict prevention. | | | Irakli Menagarishvili, Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the new partnership would facilitate the pan-european integration process, and highlighted the joint efforts of Georgia and the Ukraine to promote an environmental strategy for EECCA. | | | Serhii Kurykin, Ukrainian Minister of the Environment, invited contribution to the preparatory process of the 5th "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference to be held in Kiev. |
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http://www.iisd.ca/2002/wssd/enbots/asc/enbots1007e.txt
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| | National Poverty Reduction Programme |
| | The approach taken attempts to respond to some of the major debates internationally about this part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process, maximising national ownership and setting out clear, achievable steps to implementation. | | | The Rwandan PPA, by embedding the participatory process firmly in the formulation and implementation of national policy, reflects a broader shift in approaches to poverty reduction and aims to provide a basis for further development and learning. | | | The Rwandan Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) is the beginning of an ambitious process of engaging the people of Rwanda in defining and finding solutions to the poverty in their own communities. |
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http://www.minecofin.gov.rw/poverty_reduction
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| | United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
| | UNESCAP, through a blend of research and operational activities, analyses, tests, documents and disseminates good and innovative policies and practices in poverty reduction and shares that knowledge and advice with its members. | | | UNESCAP monitors and analyses global, regional and sub-regional economic and social trends and development issues that have an impact on poverty levels. | | | UNESCAP also works to strengthen the statistical infrastructure in countries of the region and helps them monitor their progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. |
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http://www.unescap.org/oes/poverty.asp
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| | The Hindu : National : `Notable poverty reduction' |
| | The Bank has expressed the view that the growth agenda needs to be pursued in the context of a global environment that is getting more integrated. | | | Hence, strong performance in South Asia would be critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals at the global level. | | | A World Bank study has found that South Asia had made progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s, based on strong growth performances. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2004/07/31/stories/2004073113211200.htm
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| | Always Low Prices -- Always: WM Hinders Poverty Reduction |
| | Always Low Prices -- Always: WM Hinders Poverty Reduction | | | The study examined the effect of the retailing chain on county poverty rates. | | | Goetz says the effect, while small, is statistically significant and remains after other factors affecting changes in poverty over time are accounted for, including initial poverty and whether the county already had a Wal-Mart at the beginning of the decade. |
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http://alwayslowprices.net/archives/000144.html
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| | Oxford University Press: Developmental |
| | 0195219880, paper, Jul 2003 $24.00 This report discusses the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)--the targets set for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment around the world by the year 2015. | | | Browse OUP's innovative, thoroughly-researched ESL materials, from courses and skills to professional books and journals. | | | Millennium Development Goals: A Compact among Nations to End Human Poverty |
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http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Developmental/?vi...
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| | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers |
| | Bolivia in the Struggle Against Poverty: Is the International Debt Relief Initiative Working? | | | The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: An Initial NGO Assessment (April 2000) | | | Get some amazingly well informed and easy to read introductions in the following papers. |
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http://www.caledonia.org.uk/prsp.htm
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| | Historical Poverty Tables - Poverty by Definition of Income |
| | For meanings of symbols see text) ______________________________________________________ After taxes--continued ______________________________________________________ Definition 13 plus other Definition 14 means-tested government-- plus ___________________________ net Noncash imputed transfers return Noncash less medical on equity transfers programs in own home Year _________________________________________ 14 14a 15 ______________________________________________________ 2002........ | | | Percent of People in Poverty, by Definition of Income: 1979 to 2002 (Revised) (Poverty Thresholds Based on CPI-U) (People as of March of the following year. |
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http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/histpov/rdp05.html
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| | Countries |
| | Related keywords: asia, latin america, africa, southern developing Countries, research, capacity development, poverty reduction, global resource management, poor, forestry and land use, sustainable agriculture and land use, environmental economics, international planning f. | | | Description: IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. |
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http://www.dackom.com/Countries
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| | Poverty |
| | Tanzania: Staff Assessment (JSA) of Annual PRSP Progress Report 2003 | | | Tanzania: Joint Staff Assessment (JSA) of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper | | | Tanzania: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP): MAP |
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http://poverty2.forumone.com/prsp/country/168
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| | UNESCO Quarterly Bulletin |
| | ICT Based Interventions Can Help Reducing Poverty UNESCO Research Report | | | To my surprise, at the centre two women from tailoring classes had made fabulous design of short kurtas with fantastic colours in Photoshop on the computer. |
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http://www.unescodelhi.nic.in/newsletter
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