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China and the WTO : accession, policy reform, and poverty reduction strategies

Bhattasali, Deepak (contributor); Li, Shantong (contributor) - 2004

China's accession to the WTO requires a great many specific policy reforms. However, if the best results are to be obtained, it is important that these reforms be implemented as part of a consistent development program, rather than simply by treating them as a recipe. To do this, policy makers...

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Voices of the poor in Colombia : strengthening livelihoods, families, and communities

Arboleda, Jairo A. - 2004

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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The other war : global poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account

Brainard, Lael (contributor) - 2003

The Millennium Challenge Account is a bilateral development fund representing an increase of 5 billion per year over current assistance levels to reform-oriented developing countries. This book considers the potential of the MCA as well as the larger content of US foreign assistance

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Owning up : poverty, assets, and the American dream

Miller-Adams, Michelle - 2002

building to encompass a range of skills and support systems that are necessary to lift people out of poverty. It identifies …

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Thinking about inequality : personal judgment and income distributions

Amiel, Yoram - 1999

This book offers a non-technical analysis of inequality and income distribution. It considers the way that broad ideas about the meaning of inequality are translated into specific statistical tools and with the appropriateness of the assumptions used in the literature

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Targeting of transfers in developing countries : review of lessons and experience

Coady, David - 2004

Methods: Overview -- Figure -- 2.1 Targeting Poverty Alleviation Transfer -- Box -- 5.1 Minimal Desired Reporting for …

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Investment climate, growth, and poverty

Kochendörfer-Lucius, Gudrun (contributor); … - Berlin Workshop - 2005

Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- OPENING ADDRESS: In WEnt's Commitment to Helping Improve the Investment Climate in Developing Countries -- Early Thinking on the Scope and Approach of the 2005 World Development Report -- Part I: Investment, Productivity, and Development:...

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Social inclusion and economic development in Latin America

Buvinić, Mayra (contributor); Mazza, Jacqueline (contributor) - 2004

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Growth, poverty, and inequality : Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Alam, Asad - 2005

job creation and, consequently, reducing poverty."- Ewa Balcerowicz, President of the BoardCenter for Social and …

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Gender, time use, and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Blackden, C. Mark (contributor); Wodon, Quentin (contributor) - 2006

The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They … contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household … literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to …

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