Mali and Poverty
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Final Impact Evaluation of the Saving for Change Program in Mali, 2009-2012
- 2013
- Saving for Change (SfC) is a community savings group programme designed and implemented by Oxfam America, Freedom from Hunger, and the Strømme Foundation. SfC operates in 13 countries in West Africa, Latin America and Asia. This res...
- An overview of existing social protection programmes and childhood poverty in West and Central Africa
- R. Holmes; T. Braunholtz-Speight / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This report seeks to provide an overview of existing social protection policy and programming initiatives in the West and Central Africa and to assess the extent to which these address the particular manifestations of childhood poverty and ...
- How bioenergy projects could boost rural livelihoods
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- Some 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and over 2 billion rely on biomass for their cooking and heating needs. Across the developing world there are encouraging examples of small-scale initiatives developing and transforming bio...
- The effects of irrigation investment on village welfare: evidence from Northern Mali over eight years
- A. Dillon / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- For farmers in the poorest regions of northern Mali, reliable access to water during the crop’s life cycle is critical. Because of the arid climate, the most common form of irrigation here involves the use of motorised pumps to redist...
- Governments have to help people adapt to drought and climate change
- P. Trench; J. Rowley; M. Diarra / CARE International, 2007
- This paper examines vulnerability to droughts in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the background of the 2005 food crisis in the Sahel region. The authors argue that vulnerability to droughts is due to a combination of political, economi...
- id21 classic: Poverty and famines
- Amartya Sen / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- ‘Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.’ So begins Professor Amartya Sen’s ground-breaking study on famine published in 1981.This bo...
- Inequality in Africa: a multidimensional perspective
- F. Booysen; R. Burger; G. Du Rand; M. von Maltitz; S. Van der Berg / Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007
- Conventional approaches to measuring poverty and inequality that use money-metric data overlook social aspects of poverty. This paper uses the multidimensional, asset index, approach to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven Afri...
- Is domestic accountability enhanced when poverty reduction strategies (PRS) are integrated with national budgets?
- V. Wilhelm; P. Krause / World Bank, 2007
- This study examines what challenges have arisen in countries where efforts have been made to integrate poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) with national budgets. It argues that both PRSs and national budgets offer scope for enhanced domesti...
- Analysis of poverty reduction strategy monitoring systems in 12 countries
- T. Bedi; A. Coudouel; M. Cox; M. Goldstein; N. Thornton / PovertyNet, World Bank, 2006
- This volume provides lessons on the design and functioning of Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) monitoring systems, based on the experience of twelve PRS countries. The focus is on the institutional arrangements of PRS monitoring systems - t...
- Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly
- Karuna Gomanee; Sourafel Girma; Oliver Morrissey / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in ...
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