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- Inequality Matters: Why globalization doesn't lift all boats
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This essay by Nancy Birdsall in the Boston Review, looks at globalisation and inequality. Birdsall makes the case that inequality undermines economic and human development. She then analyses globalisation's impact on inequality and inequality's impact on globalisation.
http://bostonreview.net/BR32.2/birdsall.html
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- INEQUALITY.ORG
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This Web site is meant to serve as a storehouse of information, comment, and original thinking about the increased material and socioeconomic differences among us, and about the implications of this trend in such areas as health, work life, the coherence of communities, and the workings of democratic government. Inequality.org does not advocate or campaign for any particular policy or set of policies. Our aim is to circulate information and stimulate communication, and, by doing so, to act as a kind of support group for journalists, academics and others who are trying to go beyond the bounds of conventional economic analysis.
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- Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG): Practical Answers to Poverty
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In an increasingly divided and fragile world, ITDG - the Intermediate Technology Development Group - aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. It was founded in 1966 by the radical economist Dr EF Schumacher to prove that his philosophy of 'Small is Beautiful' could bring real and sustainable improvements to people's lives. With our commitment to poverty reduction, environmental conservation and technology choice we think ITDG is uniquely placed to contribute to a world free of poverty.
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- International Development Association
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The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that helps the earth's poorest countries reduce poverty by providing interest-free loans and some grants for programs aimed at boosting economic growth and improving living conditions. IDA funds help these countries deal with the complex challenges they face in striving to meet the Millennium Development Goals. They must, for example, respond to the competitive pressures as well as the opportunities of globalization; arrest the spread of HIV/AIDS; and prevent conflict or deal with its aftermath.
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- Is All Socioeconomic Inequality among Racial Groups in Brazil Caused by Racial Discrimination?
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This paper presents extensive research on the controversial issue of whether current racial discrimination remains the decisive determinant of the notable and persistent inequalities in socioeconomic conditions between Whites and Blacks in Brazil. In making such an evaluation, it also investigates the importance of other factors, such as region of residence, parental education and household income (Rafael Guerreiro Osorio, IPC, February 2008).
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper43.pdf
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- Is poverty the problem? No, it is the wealth!
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f you read the economic and development cooperation literature, you will read everywhere a call for pro-poor policies. But one should now question: is currently poverty the problem? Or is it the alarming rate of wealth and inequality growth, which are undermining any poverty-alleviation measures? There is something wrong and the fault does not lie on the Least Developed Countries or the poorest segments of our societies. The problem is not the poverty; the problem is the greed and the fact that speculation became dominant.
http://www.civicus.org/new/content/deskofthesecretarygeneral.109.htm
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- Latin America's Progress on Gender Equality: Poor Women Workers Are Still Left Behind (pdf)
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Latin America and the Caribbean has shown notable progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators for gender equality. But when national averages are disaggregated poor women workers are not making significant progress in securing decent wage employment in the non-agricultural sector. (International Poverty Centre, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), February 2008)
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager49.pdf
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- Left behind : how social & income inequalities damage New Zealand children [pdf]
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This report looks at how enduring and perhaps deepening social inequalities are damaging the lives of the poorest 20 per cent of New Zealand children.(Child Poverty Action Group, March 2008)
http://www.cpag.org.nz/resources/articles/res1209380220.pdf
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- Liberalization and HIV in Kerala, India
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a good illustration of the well-established link between poverty and ill health; job insecurity can indirectly affect people's susceptibility to diseases and infections such as HIV. Working and living conditions can put people at a higher risk for disease and infection: poverty-driven sex work and migration are acknowledged socioeconomic risk factors for HIV. It is also likely that the availability of food and access to health services influence susceptibility to disease as well as the ability to cope with ill health. Without good nutrition and health care, people with HIV succumb to AIDS more quickly. In this context, this paper explores the following questions: Has structural adjustment in India, implemented since 1991, increased job insecurity and loss of livelihood in the state of Kerala? Did structural adjustment put some groups at higher risk of HIV? Did policy decisions reduce people's access to care, especially through the public health system? If so, what institutional pressures led to these changes, and how were they received? (Mini Sukumar, UNRISD, 15 April 2006)
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- Lula's second breath
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In the presidential election to be held on 1st October, the people of Pilõezinhos and thousands of other villages like it will weigh Lula's familiar populist persona and Brazil's improved financial and social circumstances, against disappointing economic growth and the disorganisation and the financial scandals that have marred Lula's administration. (Jonathan Power, Prospect, October 2006)
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7825
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- Make Poverty History
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ActionAid, 14 September 2004. Today a wide coalition of charities, trade unions, campaigning groups and celebrities announced ambitious plans for next year. In a world where poverty kills 30,000 people every day, 2005 will be a year of unprecedented opportunity for rich countries to change the rules and practices of trade, cancel poor countries' debts and deliver more and better aid . MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY aims to be the most powerful coalition ever against world poverty. It calls for urgent action and is looking to Tony Blair as he hosts the G8 and holds the presidency of the EU to improve the lives of millions of poor people around the world who have to live on less than a dollar a day.
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=1355
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- MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY
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MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY brings together a wide cross section of nearly 100 charities, campaigns, trade unions, faith groups and celebrities who are united by a common belief that 2005 offers a unprecedented opportunity for global change.
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
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- Making agriculture work for the poor [pdf]
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This paper summarises recent work on poverty, agriculture and land. It reports on panel data analysis in five countries - Vietnam, Uganda, India, Nicaragua and Ethiopia. It focuses on rural exits from poverty, their relation with agricultural growth trends, and the contingent factors that supported these exits. (Overseas Development Institute, October 2007)
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/nrp/NRP111.pdf
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- MDG-Based PRSPs Need More Ambitious Economic Policies [Doc]
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Terry McKinley, Policy Discussion Paper, United Nations Development Programme. Jan 2005. This paper identifies implications for economic policies of basing Poverty Reduction Strategies on the ambitious, long-term framework of the Millennium Development Goals. One of its main objectives is to open up the dialogue on the policy content of Poverty Reduction Strategies and promote greater policy choice for national policymakers.
http://www.choike.org/documentos/undp_mdg2005.pdf
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- Measuring and Reporting the Impact of Tourism on Poverty
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This paper presents a brief review and critique of current ways of measuring and reporting the economic impacts of tourism. Drawing on work on tourism and poverty reduction and responsible tourism in The Gambia, Egypt and Tanzania it presents ways of measuring local economic impact, which can be used to measure change over time (Dr Harold Goodwin, 2006)
http://www.haroldgoodwin.info/resources/measuring.pdf
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- MIGRATION AND CHRONIC POVERTY (pdf file)
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Uma Kothari March 2002 Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester Working Paper No 16. This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the ways in which these are structured around poverty-related capitals. While livelihood strategies are diverse and multiple, for many poor people, migration represents a central component of these. This paper explores how research can be carried out to examine the characteristics of those who move and those who stay, the processes by which they are compelled or excluded from adopting migration as a livelihood strategy and the circumstances under which migration sustains chronic poverty or presents an opportunity to move out of poverty.
http://www.chronicpoverty.org/pdfs/16Kothari.pdf#search=%22MIGRATION%20AND%20CHRONIC%20POVERTY%20%22
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- Myths About Poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand
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The Myths about Poverty project is aimed at identifying some of the myths that have developed about poverty in New Zealand, and to provide facts to help people make their own minds about what is true and what isn't.
http://www.casi.org.nz/mythsaboutpoverty/
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- Nature: poor people's wealth [PDF 1908.66 KB]
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Friends of the Earth International, July 2005. In this publication, FoEI illustrates the tragic cycle between the over-exploitation of the environment; loss of cultural, political and economic self-determination; inequity; hunger; and poverty. FoEI also looks on the bright side, and offer living proof that communities around the world are able to lead rich, dignified and fulfilling lives when they are in charge of their natural resources. Rural people, especially women and indigenous peoples, often have a long- standing symbiotic relationship with their local environment. To many of these people, and particularly those who are considered 'poor' in the economic sense of the word, a fulfilling life is about much more than simply money or possessions. It is about their access to and control over natural resources and their involvement in decision- making processes about these resources.
http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/poverty.pdf
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- No place to call home--China's Migrant Workers
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IN A narrow alleyway in Liguanzhuang village, residents idle away a hot afternoon near a stinking rubbish dump, worrying about when the bulldozers will come. To prepare for the Olympic Games next year, Beijing's authorities are removing such eyesores. Old villages surrounded by the expanding city are being demolished. With them goes cheap housing, vital to the city's huge pool of migrant workers. China does not like to admit it has slums. But it does, and it will find it needs them (The Economist, 7 June 2007).
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9302841
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- October 17
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On the 17th of October each year, the poorest and all those who reject extreme poverty and exclusion gather throughout the world to express their solidarity and their commitment to ensure that everyone's dignity and freedom are respected. This site is dedicated to the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty, celebrated on October 17th. The day, officially recognised by the United Nations in 1992, was born from the initiative of thousands of people who gathered at the Human Rights Plaza in Paris, France in 1987.
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- On the Links between Violent Conflict and Household Poverty: How Much Do We Really Know?
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In what ways does violent conflict impact on poor people's lives? How far does poverty act as a trigger for violent conflict? This MICROCON Working Paper makes use of new micro-level research findings on the relationship between poverty and conflict to propose a framework to understand how violent conflict can lead to or exacerbate household poverty (Patricia Justino, September 2007).
http://www.microconflict.eu/publications/RWP1_PJ.pdf
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- One: the campaign to make poverty history
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Take ONE minute today to sign the ONE declaration and lend us your voice in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty.
(Added: Fri Jan 12 2007 Hits: 226)
- Our Common Interest: Report of the Commission for Africa
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11 March 2005. A year ago, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, brought together 17 people to form a Commission for Africa. We were invited in our individual and personal capacities rather than as representatives of governments or institutions. A majority of us come from Africa and we have varied experience as political leaders, public servants and in the private sector. The task we were set was this: to define the challenges facing Africa, and to provide clear recommendations on how to support the changes needed to reduce poverty.
http://www.commissionforafrica.org/english/report/introduction.html
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- Out of time: The case for replacing the World Bank and IMF
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There seems no end in sight to the cycle of debt, and the free market policies imposed on poor countries continue, albeit with new names. Increasingly obvious is the need not just for debt write-offs and changes to Bank and Fund conditionality but for a more fundamental change to the role, remit and functioning of the international financial institutions (IFIs). In this 64-page report, a brief history of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund is followed by a detailed critique explaining the overwhelming case for change, followed finally by WDM's suggested agenda for scrapping the World Bank and IMF and creating very different international financial institutions (IFIs). (World Development Movement, September 2006)
http://www.wdm.org.uk/resources/briefings/debt/outoftimereport.pdf
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- Oxfam challenges governments - back Annan's vision, save lives
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March 22, 2005 Oxfam International. New York: International agency Oxfam today challenged world leaders to seize the chance to save millions of lives by acting on Kofi Annan's blueprint for a safer, fairer world. Governments must now make long overdue commitments to protect civilians in conflict, the agency said, as well as deliver urgently needed aid, debt relief and trade reforms.
http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Oxfam220305.pdf
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