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Peoples Global Action

From the 23rd to the 26th of February of 1998, grassroots movements of all continents met in Geneva to launch a worldwide coordination network of resistance to the global market, a new alliance of struggle and solidarity called Peoples' Global Action against 'free' trade and the WTO (PGA). That was the birth of this global tool for communication and coordination for all those who fight the destruction of humanity and the planet by capitalism and build local alternatives to globalisation.

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/en/

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Population Explosion Threatens to Trap Africa in Cycle of Poverty

There are 27.7 million people in Uganda. But by 2025 the population will almost double to 56 million. Startling as they are, the projections are feasible, and a glance at some of the variables shows why. A typical Ugandan woman gives birth to seven children - an extraordinarily high fertility rate that has remained largely unchanged for more than 30 years. Half the population is under 15, and will soon move into childbearing age. Fewer than one in five married women has access to contraception. Taken together, the factors point to a population explosion that has demographers and family planning experts warning that efforts to cut poverty are doomed unless urgent measures are taken. (The Guardian, August 25, 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1857730,00.html

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poverty A SUBJECT

growth of poverty level is largely due to misunderstanding poverty. Measures controlling poverty should be linked to the suitability of the country, as reasons of poverty changes due to social conditions of the country

http://members.tripod.com/~sadashivan_nair/quotpovertyquotasubject/index.html

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Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor

(World Bank) Climate variability and climate change are serious threats to poverty eradication. While climate change will have global impacts, poor countries and poor people will be most vulnerable because of their high dependence on natural resources that are directly impacted by climate change, their limited capacity -- human, institutional, and financial -- to cope, and, in some cases, their geographical location. Together, with nine other bilateral and multilateral agencies, the Bank is in the process of preparing a paper to initiate a global dialog on how to integrate climate variability and climate change into development. A consultative draft of this paper Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor, 2002 was launched at the Eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate change in New Delhi.

http://web.worldbank.org/servlets/ECR?contentMDK=20480614&sitePK=406964

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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi (PDF)

Adam Wagstaff, Nga Nguyet Nguyen, World Bank Working paper By international standards, and especially given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. We review existing evidence and provide some new evidence bearing on the question of whether under the economic liberalization program known as Doi Moi this reduction in child mortality has been sustained. We conclude that it has, but that the gains have been concentrated heavily among the better-off. As a result, socioeconomic inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. We develop survival models to unpack the causes of this differential decline in child mortality, and conclude that a number of factors have been at work, including reductions among the poor (but not among the better-off) in coverage of some health services and in women's educational attainment. We argue that if the experience of the late 1990s is to be a guide to the future, the lack of progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality. We examine various policy scenarios, including expanding coverage of health services, water and sanitation, and conclude that such measures-while useful-will have only a limited impact on the mortality of poor children. We find potentially large payoffs to programs aimed at narrowing the gap between the poor and better-off in the impacts of the various determinants of child survival. (PDF-1382KB)

http://www.econ.worldbank.org/files/15027_wps2832.pdf

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Poverty in the Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working Age

By Jeni Klugman, John Micklewright and Gerry Redmond. Written for the EBRD 10th anniversary conference. This paper reviews poverty across the transition countries, emphasising the phenomenon of the working-age poor. It includes analysis of whether credible unemployment benefit schemes would aid labour market reform in the CIS and hence help solve the problem there of in-work poverty. INNOCENTI WORKING PAPERS No. 91 (UNICEF).

http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/iwp91.pdf

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Poverty Mapping

Poverty Mapping is a joint initiative by FAO, UNEP and the CGIAR consisting of a network of institutions dedicated to: analyse and map the spatial distribution of poverty; produce and promote the use of poverty maps and shows linkages between poverty and food insecurity, the environment and development; and, promote the use of poverty maps in policy making and targeting assistance. The ultimate target beneficiaries are all poor and vulnerable groups who can benefit from an enhanced understanding of poverty and its relationship to food insecurity, environmental degradation and vulnerability.

http://www.povertymap.net/

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Poverty on the Development Gateway (dgPoverty)

Poverty, in the context of the Development Gateway, is seen as a multidimensional phenomenon which does not only refer to low levels of income. "Poverty" includes the deprivation of those basic factors- both tangible and intangible - which enable people to lead a life that they value. Poverty is thus the absence of an alternative sets of options from which to choose in pursuit of a better life. The Poverty topic page of the Development Gateway is an open space where people can visit to share the experiences and knowledge on some of the key issues related to the problem of poverty in the developing world. We hope this page will become an invaluable resource of information, dialogue, problem solving and community building for those interested in this topic, providing users with information about poverty reduction strategies applied in different countries and about evaluations of the impact of poverty policies and programs. The page also offers latest news, upcoming events, project information, statistics, useful web links and other knowledge resources.

http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130670/

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Poverty Persistence and Transitions: A combined qualitative and quantitative analysis [PDF] 96Kb

By David Lawson, Andy McKay and John Okidi (2003). Uganda's excellent record in reducing the national incidence of monetary poverty over the 1990s is widely known. Indeed, many of those who were poor in 1992 had escaped by 1999. However a substantial minority were left behind and many others fell into poverty over this period. Therefore, against the background of Uganda's impressive macroeconomic performance over this decade, there was a significant variation in individual experiences of poverty movements. This paper considers the factors, many of which are individual or local, that contributed to this.

http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/publications/wp/depp/depp_wp07.pdf

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Poverty Reduction and and Biodiversity Conservation: The Complex Role for Intensifying Agriculture

By John W. Mellor, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), A Viewpoint Series on Poverty and the Environment. In this paper, noted scholar and agricultural economist John W. Mellor confronts the dilemma of using agricultural intensification as a means of raising incomes of the poor while managing its costs to ecology and enabling biodiversity conservation.

http://www.panda.org/downloads/policy/mellor.pdf

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Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles [PDF]

Latin America Needs to Cut Poverty to Boost Growth: Latin American countries need to fight poverty more aggressively if they want to grow more and compete with China and other dynamic Asian economies, says a new World Bank report. According to Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles, while growth is key for poverty reduction, poverty itself is hampering the achievement of high and sustained growth rates in Latin America, which remains one of the most unequal regions in the world with close to a fourth of the population living on less than US$2.00 a day.

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/LACEXT/EXTLACOFFICEOFCE/0,,contentMDK:20819439~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:870893,00.html

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Poverty Reduction: Are the strategies working? [PDF 499KB]

Poverty reduction strategies (PRSPs) have the potential to expand poor people's opportunities to influence the government-donors relationships and to promote downward accountability. This should accordingly, increase the amount of donor resources that reach the poor and, even more importantly, the quality of these resources for poverty reduction. This World Vision report argues that fundamental improvements to PRSs are required, if they are to become the mechanism for poor people to both influence and hold the national poverty reduction processes,including donor-government relationships, accountable.

http://www.worldvision.org.uk/resources/wvuk+prs+report+july.pdf

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Poverty-Complex, Strategic Microfinance, and Social Threefolding

Center for Alternative Development Initiatives, Editorial, N. Perlas, 02 April 2005. The Year 2005 is the International Year for Microcredit. From its small beginnings in Bangladesh in the 1970s, microcredit has become a global phenomenon. When Mohammed Yunus facilitated the first microcredit for economically poor women, he did not realize that he would trigger a global movement which, among others, would make microcredit one of the key strategies of the UN Millennium Development Goals. But microcredit is not enough. Microcredit alone would not solve the problem of the poverty-complex. In addition to livelihood problems, persons struggling with poverty also have to face other challenges. Economic livelihood alone will not enable the poor to develop their full human potential and their communities.

http://www.cadi.ph/Editorials/Poverty_Complex.htm

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Poverty: The New Internationalist

The New Internationalist edition on poverty. No. 310, March 1999. "A positive magazine about poverty? Perhaps that is going a bit far. But one which wants us to look at poverty differently? Yes."

http://www.newint.org/issue310/contents.htm

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PovertyNet

PovertyNet is a World Bank Web site developed to provide resources for people and organizations working to understand and alleviate poverty.

http://worldbank.org/poverty/

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Priorities of the People: Hardship in Kiribati

This report summarizes findings from a participatory assessment of hardship in Kiribati conducted in nine sample communities. Among others, the study finds that hardship in Kiribati is more closely linked to limited economic opportunities, poor access to basic services, and increasing social problems, rather than hunger or destitution (ADB, September 2007).

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Reports/Hardship-Kiribati/Priorities-People.pdf

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Private sector development: pro-poor, or merely poor service delivery?

European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) (2002)** Privatisation was another key reform under the SAPs, the impacts of which has been subject to extensive debate. In this paper, we look at the World Bank Group's (WBG) newly developed proposal for Private Sector Development (PSD) to see how the document deals with the challenges of pro-poor development and whether it takes into account lessons learnt from previous experiences with private sector development, especially with privatisation operations, in particular as regards the impact on poverty reduction - in other words, whether the voices of the poor are heard.

http://www.eurodad.org/uploadstore/cms/docs/eurodad_privatesectordevelopment.pdf

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Pro-poor growth in the 1990s. Lessons and Insights from 14 countries

This report explores the channels for the poor to participate in growth and the country context and initial conditions affecting the efficiency of growth in reducing poverty. It draws on 14 country case studies: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Romania, Senegal, Tunisia, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. The countries had at least two household surveys in the 1990s and early 2000s that offered comparable methodologies, consumption aggregates and poverty lines. The country studies systematically analyzed the distributional pattern of growth and how it was affected by country policies and conditions. To draw out the key lessons, it includes thematic papers were prepared covering: macro stability and pro-poor growth, growth and inequality, labor markets and employment, agriculture, public expenditures, institutions and gender. (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/the World Bank, June 2005)

http://www.enterprise-impact.org.uk/pdf/Pro-poorGrowthinthe1990s.pdf

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Pro-poor growth: what is it? [PDF]

There is a growing consensus among development practitioners and thinkers that growth alone is not enough to reduce poverty. Instead, discussion now centres on the idea of "pro-poor growth": something that is indicative of a major conceptual move away from the trickle down theories of a few decades ago. However, as important as the shift in development thinking is, there is still much to be done in defining what pro-poor growth is, how it is assessed and measured and, more importantly, how the concept can be translated into effective policy. This brief paper from the UNDP's International Poverty Centre discusses the concept of pro-poor growth.

http://www.undp.org/povertycentre/newsletters/OnePager1.pdf

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Profiting from Poverty: The ADB, private sector and development in Asia (PDF 161 Kb)

Focus on the Global South, May 2001. A compilation of articles on the ADB, its policies and impacts.

http://www.focusweb.org/publications/Books/Profiting_from_poverty.htm

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Promoting Pro-Poor Growth in Ghana: Implementation Challenges and Issues for Donors (pdf)

The implementation of the aid effectiveness principles in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness is helping to address challenges more effectively in Ghana. At the same time, Ghana now also needs to address these pressing strategic issues and improve policy implementation, to increase the participation of the poor in the growth process. (OECD, December 2007)

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/20/39773379.pdf

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Public Perceptions of Poverty Research

Public Perceptions of Poverty has been funded by DFID's Development Awareness Fund and has three objectives: Assess levels of public awareness and understanding of world poverty; Explore barriers and drivers to public empathy and action; Investigate the role of the media, of Red Nose Day, and The Make Poverty History Campagin.It also offers the most comprehensive market research in aid, debt and trade. So, essential reading if you have not yet checked it out. (Bond).

http://www.bond.org.uk/campaign/ppp.htm

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Reaching the Poor: The Influence of Policy and Administrative Processes on the Implementation of Government Poverty Schemes in India

Radhika Nayak, N.C. Saxena and John Farrington. Working Paper 175,Overseas Development Institute, September 2002 Farrington.This study was conceived within the frame of a wider study on the diversification of rural livelihoods in India. Briefly, the wider study aims to identify what policy initiatives might better support the poor in their search for enhanced livelihoods. A first prerequisite for any such scheme to impact on the poor is that funds allocated under it should actually reach the poor. The study focuses on four broad types of poverty reduction schemes.

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp175.pdf

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Regimes of Growth and Economic Integration: Why Poor Countries Cannot Join the "Club" of the Rich? (PDF)

By Georgiy Trofimov. The paper aims to explain obstacles to economic integration of advanced and backward economies by analyzing qualitatively different regimes of growth experienced by developed and less developed economies. By qualitative difference of growth we mean that there are well-developed sectors of the economy serving as engines of growth in some countries while they are suppressed or absent in others. (PDF-81KB)

http://www.eerc.ru/publications/summaries/0303e.pdf

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Release of the State of the World's Cities Report 2006/7

The world is entering a historic urban transition; in 2007, for the first time in history, the world's urban population will exceed the rural population. Most of the world's urban growth - 95 per cent - in the next two decades will be absorbed by cities of the developing world, which are least equipped to deal with rapid urbanization. The report breaks new ground by showing remarkable similarities between slums and rural areas in health, education, employment and mortality. (UN Habitat, June 2006)

http://www.unhabitat.org/worldcitiesreport.asp

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