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This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household level...
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This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household level...
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This latest Voices of the Poor study advances the participatory research tradition of the previous World Bank Voices works with new modules focusing on poor peoples' action recommendations. In the summer of 2002, 942 poor women and men from ten poor communities of Colombia discussed urgent...
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Colombia Study: Proposals for Action -- Country Context -- Why a Participatory Approach? -- Chapter 2: Employment, Work, and Opportunities -- Urban Livelihoods: Informality on the Rise -- Deterioration...
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Lifting people out of poverty is one of the great challenges facing the international community today. It has become still more daunting in the context of the global financial crisis, which has severe implications for the poorest people in the world. Almost 1.4 billion people in developing...
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