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"Eradicating poverty is an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind"

   General Assembly Resolution 51/178

 

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UNEP
bulletPublications online

UNESCO
bulletPoverty Research Institute database

DESA
bulletSG Report Review of the first UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
bulletSG Report on the centrality of Employment in poverty eradication
bulletSG report on Cooperatives in social development
bulletGA resolution on the first UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
bulletReport of the World Social Situation: The Inequality Predicament
bulletMillennium Development Goals Report 2006
bulletWorld Economic and Social Survey: Diverging Growth and Development
bulletBlue Book on Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development
bulletThe 2005 World Summit Outcome
bulletInvesting in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the MDGs

UNCTAD
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The Least Developed Countries Report: Developing Productive Capacities
bullet Economic Development in Africa

OHRLLS
bulletBreaking Barriers - Gender Perspectives and Empowerment of Women in
bulletLeast Developed Countries

UNICEF
bulletChild Poverty in Rich Countries 2005 Report Card No. 6
bulletProgress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, No.4
bulletThe State of the World’s Children 2006: Excluded and Invisible
bulletPrinciples and Practicalities in Measuring Child Poverty for the Rich
bulletCountries

bulletChild Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Nations in Rich
bulletCountries since 1990
bulletA Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany
bulletThe Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union
bulletAlternative Tax-benefit Strategies to Support Children in the European Union
bulletSocial Monitor 2004 on Economic Growth and Child Poverty in the CEE/CIS
bulletand the Baltic States

UNRISD

bulletTargeting and Universalism in Poverty Reduction
bulletGlobalization" and Social Policy in a Development Context:
bulletRegional Responses

bulletGender and Education: A Review of Issues for Social Policy
bulletSocial Policy in a Development Context
bulletSocial Indicators and Welfare Monitoring
bulletDisempowering New Democracies and the Persistence of Poverty
bulletApproaches to Globalization and Inequality within the International System
bulletMethodological and Data Challenges to Identifying the Impacts of
bulletGlobalization and Liberalization on Inequality

bulletGender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World
bulletImproving Knowledge on Social Development in
bulletInternational Organizations I

bulletImproving Knowledge on Social Development in
bulletInternational Organizations II

bulletSocial Knowledge and International Policy Making: Exploring the Linkages

WFP

bulletPublications of WPF Policy Unit
bulletWorld Food Programme Annual Reports

bulletHunger Map 2005
bulletWFP in Africa (Facts, figures and partners)
bulletAre we reaching the hungry?
bulletWFP working in partnership
bulletConcrete steps towards a millennium free from hunger
bulletWorld Hunger Series 2006 (Full report and an overview)
bulletGlobal School Feeding Report 2005
bulletThe Essential Package
bulletEngagement in Poverty Reduction Strategies
bulletEngagement in Poverty Reduction Strategies [Corr.]

UNDP
bulletHow to Make Poverty History:  The central role of local organizations in bullet
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meeting the MDGs 
bulletMeasuring Democratic Governance:  A Framework for Selecting Pro-Poor
bulletand Gender Sensitive Indicators
bulletEn Route to Equality:  A Gender Review of National MDG Reports
bulletFiscal Decentralization and Poverty Reduction
bulletHuman Rights-Based Approach to Poverty Reduction – Analytical Linkages,
bulletPractical Work, and UNDP
bulletNew Global Poverty Count
bulletPoverty among women in Latin America:  Feminization or
bulletover-representation?
bulletMDG-Based PRSPs Need More Ambitious Economic Policies
bulletPoverty-Environment Partnership 2005-09:  Sustaining the Environment to
bulletFight Poverty and Achieve the MDGs:  The Economic Case and Priorities
bulletfor Action
bulletPro Poor Urban Governance: Lessons from Life
bulletInter-country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach:  An
bulletEmpirical Exercise
bulletTaking Gender Equality Seriously:  Making Progress, Meeting New
bulletChallenges
bulletGovernance for the Future:  Democracy and Development in the Least bullet
bulletDeveloped Countries
bulletWorld Resources 2005:  The Wealth of the Poor – Managing Ecosystems to bulletFight Poverty