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Social Watch

Social Watch is an international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality.

http://www.socialwatch.org/en/portada.htm

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Digital Dividends for the Poor: ICT for Poverty Reduction in Asia (pdf)

By Stuart Mathison, The Foundation for Development Cooperation (March 2003). This paper discusses the role of ICTs in poverty reduction. It is organised into three sections. The first section focuses on poverty in Asia. The discussion begins by highlighting the important distinction between 'development' and 'poverty reduction'. The UNDP's Human Poverty Index is used as the basis for analysing poverty in Asia. Section two concludes with analysis of Best Practices in ICT for Poverty Reduction. The third section of this paper is a number of ICT for Poverty Reduction case studies, organised generally according to the categories of the Millennium Development Goals. Each case study describes the particular application of ICT and discusses targeting the poor, outreach, expandability/replicability, and sustainability.

http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/index.cfm?menuid=269&parentid=179

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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" Rural - Urban

An opinion peice on poverty by Sadashivan. "Economic growth is must to overcome poverty. For economic growth generation of source of income must be first priority Major population of the world live in rural villages estimated 55% in developed countries and 70% in developing countries, some more and in some countries is less. Among these rural population 60% or more has less land or no land. Majority of those having small land is because of land division among increased number of family. If father / mother have one land that is divided among all children so this small land is not enough to make as source of income."

http://www.sadashivan.com/quotpovertyquotasubject/id33.html

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The World Revolution

The World Revolution is an idea for a new, global grassroots social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era. Major issue areas of the World Revolution include: peace, human rights, the environment, and world poverty.

http://www.worldrevolution.org/

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Trade Protectionism in Developed Countries Exploits Vulnerable Economies in Developing Countries

This report in Power and Interest News Report (PINR) discusses the subsidies and protection by developed countries of their steel and agricultrual industries. It concludes "These actions further show that governments around the world are unwilling to ascribe to global free trade. Instead, developed countries have been able to reap the benefits of free trade, while shielding themselves from its drawbacks. Poor countries, on the other hand, are unable to shield themselves from the drawbacks of free trade and also find it extremely difficult to reap its benefits."

http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=69&language_id=1

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Building a Better World: A New Global Development Strategy to End Extreme Poverty (PDF)

January 2004 Subtitled: A Policy Brief from the Seattle Initiative for Global Development "The Seattle Initiative for Global Development is an alliance of Pacific Northwest business and civic leaders that believes we have an historic opportunity to eliminate extreme global poverty and, in so doing, create a safer, more humane and more prosperous world for all. Business and civic leaders have not typically engaged our country's leadership on issues of global poverty. In this increasingly interdependent world, however, we are convinced that the interests of the United States - our own stability and economic health - are bound up with the fate of the world's poor. (PDF Format - 147Kb)

http://igdleaders.org/policy/documents/IGDBrief2005_000.pdf

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DFID Report on Tackling Poverty by Reducing Armed Violence (PDF)

Recommendations from a Wilton Park Workshop, 14 16 April 2003. Although armed violence poses a significant obstacle to poverty reduction, few development agencies have addressed small arms issues in their policies or programmes. In April 2003, small arms experts and development agency representatives came together to discuss ways and means of integrating arms controls into development policy and programmes. This report highlights key findings and recommendations that emerged from that workshop (PDF 336 KB).

http://www.smallarmsnet.org/Reports/wiltonpark.pdf#search=%22DFID%20Report%20on%20Tackling%20Poverty%20by%20Reducing%20Armed%20Violence%20(PDF)%22

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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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The Asian financial Crisis and Filipino Households: Impact on Women and Children (PDF)

By Jenina Joy Chavez, Focus on the Global South and Save the Children (UK). The study focuses on Children and Women who bear the brunt of macro-economic crisis such as that in 1997. This study was conducted from March 1999 to March 2000.

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

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Fighting Poverty in Developing Countries: Should the Focus be on Households or Women?

(IDRC) By Luc Savard, Anyck Dauphin, Marie-Claude Martin and Dr. Randy Spence 2002-07-04. Recent research into decision-making in households has produced some relevant - and surprising - findings with respect to the fight against poverty. Studies show that in developing countries such as Burkina Faso, Bangladesh and South Africa, the greater a woman contributes to household income, the more money is spent on food and childcare and the less is spent on alcohol and tobacco. Other studies show that, in Brazil and the Ivory Coast, children whose mothers contribute more to family income have a higher daily caloric intake, weigh more, and are taller. These findings have several implications for the fight against poverty. More than 70 low-income countries have already produced, or are in the process of producing, a poverty-reduction strategy paper (PRSP) that will act as a basis and condition for assistance provided by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-25403-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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'Small is Working': Technology for Poverty Reduction (Online Video)

Small is Working Technology for Poverty Reduction People around the world are using technologies as a pathway out of poverty to satisfy their basic needs, gain access to services, and realise their rights. The video 'Small is Working' brings together research and case studies to demonstrate the potential transformative powers of technology. The video is split into four sections for convenient downloading. The first part looks at the legacy of EF Schumacher's ideas, while the other three examine particular applications of small-scale technology by ITDG to reduce poverty around the world. 1.Small is Working 2.Women's Development Associations in Sudan 3.Improved Maasai housing in Kenya 4.Renewable energy in Sri Lanka

http://www.itdg.org/?id=small_is_working

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Bolivia: The Country That Wants To Exist

The Progressive - October 2003. By Eduardo Galeano. A gigantic gas explosion: This was the popular uprising that shook all of Bolivia and culminated in the resignation of President Sanchez de Lozada, who fled, leaving behind him a trail of corpses. Galeano looks at the history of Bolivia, and the abuse its people have suffered at the hands of outsiders, and uses it to give context to current resistance to the IMF. Galeano, a Uruguayan journalist, is the author of "The Open Veins of Latin America," "Memory of Fire," and "Soccer in Sun and Shadow."

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=4405

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CARE's 10 Ideas To Rid The World Of Poverty And 10 Ways Individuals Can Help

CARE, one of the world's leading humanitarian organizations, has developed a list of 10 ideas to rid the world of poverty and 10 ways individuals can help - because the issues may be global, but the solutions lie in each of us. Though everyone might not agree on every idea, we can agree that a better and more humane world is possible. The worst failure we could suffer is the failure to have tried to realize it.

http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/featurestories/2003/oct/10092003_top10lists.asp

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First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

In December 1995, the General Assembly proclaimed the First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006). In December 1996, the General Assembly declared the theme for the Decade as a whole to be "Eradicating poverty is an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind."

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/poverty/poverty.htm

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Assessing the Effects of Population Change, Economic Growth, and Globalization on Income Inequality (PDF)

A recentent analysis - covering income inequality data from 92 countries over four decades - suggests that inequality tends to increase at early stages of economic development and fall at later stages. The most important determinant of inequality is not economic growth, however, but rather changes in population age structure. These population changes occur as mortality and fertility drop during the course of economic and social modernization. This analysis suggests that policies that make health and family planning services widely available will contribute to a reduction in income inequality by lowering mortality and fertility rates. (East-West Centre, Jeffrey G. Williamson and Matthew Higgins, Asia-Pacific Population & Policy No.66, July 2003)

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/p&p066.pdf

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Assessing the Impacts of Trade on Poverty and Inequality

By Jorge Saba Arbache, Universidade de Brasília & Francisco Galroa Carneiro, Universidade Católica de Brasilia. Abstract: This paper uses a computable general equilibrium model to simulate different trade liberalization policy scenarios and counterfactual microsimulations to assess the impacts of greater trade openness on household income distribution and poverty ratios. Our conclusion is that trade liberalization alone may not be sufficient to significantly reduce poverty and inequality.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=447165

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Indymedia: Coverage of Current Bolivian Uprising

"The whole country is revolting at the moment forcing the government to order further troups to La Paz including several tanks and troop re-inforcements. At the same time ten of thousands of protesters started to march from Oruro and Achacachi to support the rioters in La Paz, and miners have announced the occupation of mining companies owned by the president. The President, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada has postponed a decision on gas plan but continues to resist calls for his resignation despite his condemnation by the Vice-President and the withdrawal of support of three other ministers."

http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=353065&group=webcast

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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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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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The Price of Dignity by Anita Roddick

In this article Anita Roddick gives a brief survey of the shocking working conditions caused by the ability of corporations to transfer their factories to locations with lower standards and rewards for workers. She then outlines some approaches that need to taken if the situation is to improve. She says campaigns are needed to keep jobs in the developing world while at the same time working to guarantee respect for worker rights. Furthermore, we need enforceable laws to defend workers' rights - laws every bit as strong as those currently afforded to products.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1046792,00.html

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What Role do NGOs Play in Alleviating Chronic Poverty? (PDF)

By Emma Harris-Curtis for INTRAC (International NGO Traning and Research Centre)- This paper argues that Northern non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) are immensely varied in terms of policy, value system and approaches to poverty. A brief exploration is made of approaches to extreme poverty, inclusion and the influences on NGDO policy. Evidence is then taken from the field to explore some NGDOs' engagement in including those often excluded by so-called NGDO development programmes. The gaps between policy and practice of NGDOs is then discussed. A suggestion is made whereby NGDOs might be more inclusive in their policy and their reach to the most poor. This is that rights approaches to development are increasingly being researched and transposed into policy. An explanation of rights approaches and their potential implications for inclusion of the extremely poor then follows. Some examples, experiences and research into the adoption of this approach by Northern NGDOs are then offered. - [PDF]

http://www.interaction.org/files.cgi/2197_E-bulletin_-_September_2003.doc

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Fuelling poverty : Oil, war and corruption

Christian Aid May 2003 How the Iraqi people benefit from oil revenue will depend, according to our evidence, on how open, transparent and justly distributed the spoils of oil exploitation are in the future. If the crimes and misdemeanours of the past - where vast revenues funded a corrupt and totalitarian regime - are not to be repeated, Iraq's people must be allowed to scrutinise the spending of oil money. So Iraq, as well as providing an example of what can go wrong in an oil economy, also offers a vital opportunity to demonstrate that pumping oil does not have to mean pumping more misery. If that opportunity is seized, then it would offer hope that the people of other oil-producing countries could also see a better future.

http://www.christianaid.org.uk/indepth/0305cawreport/cawreport03.pdf

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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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Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM)

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) is a leading non-government organization (NGO) in Bangladesh working at the grassroots level as well as national and international levels with the aim to develop social and spiritual life of the human community. It works to render all possible help to the suffering humanity at large with basic thrust on poverty alleviation and socio-economic empowerment of the poor, specially women. DAM is the first to provide innovative services in different fields of education bringing sustainable impact for improvement of quality of life of the target beneficiaries. Recipient of the UNESCO International Literacy Award 2003.

http://www.ahsania.org/

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