Poverty focused aid
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A methodology for measuring the impact of development interventions on food security
- ( R.,M. Saleth;A. Dinar;S. Neubert / International Water Management Institute , 2007)
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Governments and development agencies constantly plan, implement, and evaluate various development interventions, and there is an understandable concern over the actual impacts that these interventi...
- How can responses to emerging food insecurity crises be improved?
- ( E. Mathys / Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project , 2007)
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In geographic areas and populations chronically vulnerable to food insecurity, early warning and response (EWR) systems can provide necessary information to help modify programme interventions and ...
- Cash transfers reduce inequality but not enough to break poverty cycle
- ( F.V. Soares;R.P. Ribas;R.G. Osório / UNDP International Poverty Centre , 2007)
- Created in 2004, Brazil's Bolsa Familia programme consists of monthly cash transfers to poor households with children or pregnant women and unconditional transfers to extremely poor households. This p...
How to effect successful cash transfer programming
- ( International Committee of the Red Cross , 2006)
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This document presents a guide to cash transfer programming. It looks to ascertain whether a cash programme is an appropriate response – and if appropriate a practical, step-by-step guid...
- Direct cash transfers should be considered as an alternative to in-kind aid
- ( S. Davies;J. Davey / Munich Re , 2007)
- This paper analyses the impact of the Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer (DECT) programme in Dowa, Malawi, on the local economy. The programme consisted of cash transfers to households over a duration of fi...
- World Bank and IMF must fully analyse impacts before embarking on action
- ( E. Stuart / European Network on Debt and Development , 2007)
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Do the World Bank and the IMF fully consider how their advice might affect the lives of the poor? This paper contends that both institutions should ensure that before they recommend a course of act...
- Who will be left behind by the MDGs?
- ( A., U. Ahmed;R., V. Hill;L., C. Smith / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2007)
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Despite considerable progress in poverty reduction in the past decade, millions of people around the world remain preoccupied solely with survival, and hunger is a reality in their everyday lives. ...
- Adaptation and development: the need for integrated approaches
- ( H. McGray;A. Hammill;R. Bradley / World Resources Institute, Washington DC , 2007)
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As leaders begin to consider policies and measures to respond to mounting climate effects, it is critical that adaptation efforts be designed to reach the poorest communities to safeguard their dev...
- Understanding the politics of aid delivery
- ( A. de Haan;M. Everest-Phillips / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2007)
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Aid delivery is inherently political. In the context of increasing aid flows and greater donor coordination, how will aid interact with local political forces? This paper looks at a range of recent...
- How much Australian aid is spent on poverty reduction?
- ( F. Duxfield;K. Wheen / AID/WATCH , 2007)
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At $3.16 billion, Australian aid is supposedly the most generous it has ever been but is this aid being spent on poverty reduction? This report explores Australia's aid budget and reveals that upwa...
