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This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …
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A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the...
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civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …
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growth on poverty dynamics in the country by including growth variables among the factors affecting the incidence of and … transition from poverty, concluded that growth is not uniformly associated with poverty reduction. While panel household data was … used to identify the factors influencing the incidence and mobility of poverty, the changes in the influence of these …
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Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …
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€™ experiences of poverty differ in important ways. It is also discussed how understanding the gender dimensions of chronic poverty … is important not only for tackling the greater levels of deprivation and vulnerability that girls and women routinely … face in many country contexts, but also for tackling poverty more broadly. [Policy Brief No. 12]. …
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The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which vulnerabilities can be managed and the role that local, national and regional policy responses can play in strengthening the knowledge base and improving collaborative platforms for action.
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The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/CRC20BS_Vol%20I_1.pdf].
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Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pressures and causes severe hardship for poor households lacking access to social safety nets....
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The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].
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