World Development Report on Poverty 2000/01
The WDR presents itself as a document based on scientific knowledge. The research group has taken this position seriously and treated it as such. In their comments the researchers go beyond the rhetor...
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03/01/2001
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Poverty, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Global economic prospects and the developing countries 2001
Technological innovations and the dismantling of trade barriers over the past decade have contributed to an acceleration of growth in global trade. This acceleration has been associated with faster gr...
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27/12/2000
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Commerce, Developing Countries, Models, Economic, Advocacy
Human Rights Watch - World Report 2001
The scope of today's global human rights problems far exceeds the capacity of global institutions to address them. The problem is most acute in the realm of economic globalization, where a disturbing ...
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27/12/2000
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Human Rights, Advocacy
Local perspectives: foreign aid to the justice sector
Human rights are central to development. Progress cannot be measured in economic terms alone. Moreover, economic progress itself only proceeds in a sustainable way when it is grounded in concern for h...
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Human Rights, Legislation, Health Equity, Advocacy
State of the World's Children 2001
Drawing on reports from the world over, The State of the World's Children 2001 details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving - in the face of war, poverty and the HIV/AIDS e...
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Poverty, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Children, Advocacy
Eliminating world poverty: Making globalization work for the poor
One in five of the world's population - two thirds of them women - lives in abject poverty, in a world of growing material plenty. The new millennium offers a real opportunity to eliminate world pove...
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Poverty, Women, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Comparative analyses of more than 50 household surveys on health status
This study is to determine whether existing data sources from household interview based surveys conducted in a large number of countries may be used towards estimating the distribution and levels of s...
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Data Collection, Social Conditions, Health Care Surveys, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^ut
Health impact assessment
HIA's strength lies in providing a tool which enables informed policy decisions to be made based on a valid assessment of their potential health impacts, at the same time adding health awareness to po...
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Social Control Policies, 32465, Policy Making, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Path independent inequality measures
This paper explores a natural decomposition requirement for inequality measures, motivated by Shorrocks and Anand, which we call path independent decomposability. Given a collection of population subg...
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Equity, 35144, Income, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
HIV and AIDS in Americas: an epidemic with many faces
As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, the challenges it poses to families, to societies, to governments and to science continue to grow. The more we learn about HIV and the behaviors that spre...
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Disease Outbreaks, Health Equity, Acquired Immunodeficiency
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