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Rwanda's genocide was the extreme outcome of the failure of development model that was based on ethnic, regional and social exclusion; that increased deprivation,humiliation and vulnerability of the poor, that allowd state-instigated recism and discrimination to continue unabated, tha was...
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This study examines the empirical relationship among inequality, poverty and economic growth in India. Using data on …, the Gini coefficient and three popular measures of poverty. …
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The transition to a market economy in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union has been associated with greater inequality and social stratification. This paper prepared within the UNU/WIDER project on "Income Distribution and Social Structure during the Transition' analyses trends in social...
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This paper aims to assess the impact that the impoverishment process has had on IPD health dynamics and micronutrient-related morbidity via the changes which have occurred in food consumption in terms of average intake, its ditribution and the quality of diets.
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This paper, a draft from the early stages of an ongoing UNU/WIDER researchproject, outlines, hypotheses for the economic cause of humanitarian disasters.
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The study examines welfare changes in China during the reform period (1978 - ) by analysing various welfare indicators, the causes of change, and the shifting models.
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Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …
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grew tremendously, while immigration participated in the rapid urbanization process and the redistribution of poverty … became population magnets, and some neighbourhoods within cities became gateway clusters in which the effects of immigration …
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insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government.s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …
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