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. Drawing upon three Southeast Asian case studies (the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia), it highlights the importance of …, as income gaps grow larger. The experience of the Philippines provides insight into these issues. Rapid urbanization and … the Philippines, where legislation has encouraged decentralization of powers and resources to the municipal and community …

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Rural poverty in Africa

Elliott, Charles - 1980

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Globalization and social development after Copenhagen : premises, promises and policies

Mkandawire, Thandika; Rodríguez, Virginia - 2000

This paper explores the social, economic and ideological context within which the World Summit for Social Development took place. As its subtitle implies, the discussion focuses particularly on some of the assumptions about global trends that were prevalent in 1995 and evaluates their adequacy...

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Persistence of poverty in an indigenous community in Southern India : bringing agrarian environment to the centre of poverty analysis

Ramapurath, Sudheesh - 2019

This paper draws attention to the need for centring the agrarian environment in poverty analysis and development policymaking. Through an ethnographic enquiry into the persistence of poverty among a landless indigenous community in the southern Indian state of Kerala, this paper tries to...

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Employment for poverty reduction and food security

Braun, Joachim von (contributor) - 1995

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