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Chapter 1 Nature, Power, and Poverty
Box 1.1, Table 1
Profiling Households in Bolivia, 1999-2003
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Box 1.1, Table 2
Percent of Population Living on $1 per Day, 1981-2001
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Box 1.1, Figure 1
The Many Measures of Poverty (3 maps)
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Box 1.1, Figure 2
Living on $2 Per Day (map)
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Box 1.1, Figure3
$1 and $2 Per Day Poverty Trends, 1981-2001
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Table 1.1
Ecosystems Bring Jobs
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Minibox Table 1.1
Jordan: Less Inequality, Less Poverty
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Figure 1.1
United States Households Falling Below the National Poverty Line, 2000
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Minibox Table 1.2
Urban-Rural Comparisons
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Figure 1.2
Climate Change and Food Security(map)
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Box 1.2, Table 1
What Can You Buy for a Dollar?
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Box 1.2, Table 2
What the Rural Poor Spend in Morocco
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Table 1.2
Bitter Bamboo and Cardamom vs. Other Income Sources, Nam Pheng Village, Lao PDR
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Figure 1.3
A Trend Toward Wealth, Nam Pheng Village, Lao PDR
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Box 1.3, Figure 1
DALYs Attributed to Environmental Health Risks
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Box 1.3, Figure 2
The Poor Are More Vulnerable to Health Risks
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Figure 1.4
Corruption by Sector in South Asia, 2002
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Box 1.4, Figure 1
Rich Countries Dominate Global Exports
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Box 1.4, Figure 2
Financial Flows to Developing Countries, 1980-2002
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Box 1.4, Figure 3
Foreign Direct Investment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 1993-2002
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Box 1.4, Figure 4
Trends in Investment and Poverty Rates, Latin America and the Caribbean, 1981-2001
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Box 1.4, Figure 5
U.S. Agricultural Price Supports, 2002
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Box 1.4, Figure 6
Conditionality of Development Aid, 2002
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Box 1.4, Table 1
African Countries’ Dependence on Single-Commodity Exports
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Box 1.4, Figure 7
Fair Trade? U.S. Cotton Subsidies and the Gross Domestic Product of Selected Cotton-Exporting Countries, 2003
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