All Poverty Reduction Publications

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Fiscal Space for What?

This paper proposes a framework and policy instruments to secure fiscal space for financing a national development strategy. For many developed countries, fiscal policy means managing structural shocks and increasing access to key public goods. For most low-income countries, significant and more

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Fiscal Space in Developing Countries

Following the adoption of the MDGs, the issue of use of fiscal space is all the more acute. Mobilisation of fiscal space must be done in the context of the fight against poverty. more

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Five Years into the Product Patient Regime: India's Response

Many developing countries are able to access affordable medicines as a result of utilizing flexibilities in the WTO TRIPS Agreement. Hence, developments in India have impacts well beyond its borders, given the reliance of the global market, especially developing and least developed countries more

Four companies commit to fight poverty in Africa and Asia

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GEPMI - Global Gender Economic Policy Management Initiative

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Gender Equality and Taxation

This Issues Brief series explores gender issues in taxation. It is based on the findings from a research project that examined how direct and indirect taxation policies affected women and men in Argentina, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Uganda and the United Kingdom. more

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Gender and Indicators

What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. Gender-sensitive indicators and other measurements of change are critical for building the case for taking gender (in)equality seriously, for enabling better planning and more

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Gender and Poverty

The relationship between gender and poverty is a complex and controversial topic that is now being debated more than ever before. Although much policymaking has been informed by the idea of feminization of poverty, the precise nature of the nexus between gender and poverty needs to be better more

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Going Local to Achieve the MDGs

This publication describes the experiences of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and UNDP in supporting local efforts to achieve the MDGs, by promoting local ownership, understanding local needs and trends and fostering collaboration between different actors at the local level. The eight case more

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Good Practice Guide: Improving Access to Treatment with Flexibilities in TRIPS

Analyses public health flexibilities in the TRIPS Agreement and provides examples where and how have they been used by governments. It can be used by legislators and policy makers in discussions on adopting or reforming legislation, in formulating national intellectual property rights (IPR) and more