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Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom?
Washington, DC: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) (2008), 27 pp.
"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi
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Digital Poverty: Concept and Measurement, with an Application to Peru
Kellogg Institute (2007), 26 pp.
"This paper discusses the notions of demand, poverty, information needs, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to offer a concept of digital poverty, which may be useful to estimate the digital poverty level in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper is composed of two sections. T
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Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
Warwickshire; Ottawa: Practical Action Publishing; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2007), 161 pp.
Poverty and Digital Inclusion: Preliminary Findings of Finding a Voice Project
New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 48 pp.
"This paper presents preliminary findings from a multi-sited qualitative study of poverty and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in India, Indonesia Sri Lanka and Nepal. It draws upon data gathered by 12 ethnographic action researchers working across 15 community ICT initiatives. Thes
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Making Poverty the Story: Time to Involve the Media in Poverty Reduction
London: Panos London (2007), 64 pp.
"According to this report the media in low-income countries is too often left aside as a serious player in the fight against poverty. ‘It’s time that those active in poverty reduction realise the media is a public good and in a prime position to monitor whether poverty reduction is taking place.
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Violência e pobreza no cinema brasileiro recente: Reflexões sobre a idéia de espetáculo
Novos Estudos, issue 78 (2007), pp. 113-128
"O artigo analisa obras recentes de ficção ou documentário que acentuaram a presença visual de cidadãos pobres, negros, moradores de favelas e bairros de periferia no cinema e na televisão brasileiros. Ao trazer esse universo à atenção pública, esses filmes intensificaram e estimularam uma
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Measuring Democratic Governance: A Framework for Selecting Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive Indicators
Key Guides
New York: UNDP (2006), 50 pp.
Voices of Change: Strategic Radio Support for Achieving the Millenium Development Goals
Key Guides
London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2006), 28 pp.
"Highlights the relevance of radio in poor communities, its broad applicability to a range of sectoral activities such as health, rights, education, livelihoods, and conflict prevention, and identifies the need to deepen the capacity of radio broadcasters at all levels to conduct effective monitorin
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Poverty: An International Glossary
London: Zed Books; CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, 2nd ed. (2006), 246 pp.
"This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this so
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"As part of its initiatives to make Information and Communication Technology (ICT) work for the poor, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with four countries in east Africa initiated and carried out a joint project on Pro-Poor ICT. The said countries are Kenya, Rwanda, T
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Los periodistas hablan de pobreza: Primera encuesta nacional
Santiago de Chile: Fundación Futuro; Fundación Superación de la Pobreza; Hogar de Cristo (2006), 47 pp.
Media Development and Poverty Eradication
Paris: UNESCO (2006), 70, vi pp.
The articles in this book have been adapted from contributions to the UNESCO-sponsored conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka marking World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2006.
"About 80 representatives from government, civil society, think tanks and media organizations in developing countries, as well as representatives from multilateral and bilateral donor agencies, academic institutions, and international civil society organizations participated in a dialogue about deep
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Digital Dividents for the Poor: ICT for Poverty Reduction in Asia
Kuala Lumpur: Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) (2005), 66 pp.
