- Adjustment and Equity
- C. Morrisson / OECD Development Centre, 1992
- Adjustment does not necessarily increase poverty.Adjusting before a crisis reduces social costs.Refusal to adjust and the suspension of imports leads to self-centred underdevelopment, which is socially much more costly. The choice of ...
- Deciphering Codes of Corporate Conduct: A Review of their Contents
- K. Gordon; M. Miyake / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- Public concerns about globalisation are growing. Many firms are trying to respond to these concerns, often by issuing statements of ethics or values that cover various facets of corporate conduct. This working paper concentrates on th...
- More, But Not Yet Better: An Evaluation of USAID’s Programs and Policies To Improve Girls’ Education
- C. O’Gara; S. Benoliel; M. Sutton; K. Tietjen / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Report based on five field studies in Guatemala, Guinea, Malawi, Nepal, and Pakistan, a country desk study (Egypt), issue-oriented research on Bolivia and Thailand, and a literature review. Five questions guided the entire proj...
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- A 170 page toolkit comprising a range of tools for gender analysis in the water and sanitation sector, plus practical 'how-to' strategies collected from programmes around the world.
- Gendernet, World Bank, 1998
- The toolkit comprises ready-to-use material designed expressly for World Bank task managers working in the water and sanitation sector. It presents a range of tools for gender analysis and practical “how-to” strategies colle...
- Mixed news on impacts, and recommendations for new programmes
- M. Dev / Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2000
- Examines the impact on employment growth (total, agriculture, industry), unemployment, real wages, wage inequalities between skilled and unskilled workers, women’s employment and child labour. It also analyses whether labour rigi...
- A new perspective: HIV/AIDS as a human security issue rather than a health issue
- U. Kristoffersson / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000
- The HIV/AIDS epidemic today is not simply a health issue. Its spread and impact cuts across all levels of society causing important consequences for human security. The scale of this epidemic has recently lead the United Nations Secur...
- How to Create an Effective Communication Project [on HIV / AIDS]
- Family Health International, 1996
- Careful planning of communication projects is necessary for the success of HIV/AIDS prevention programs. This handbook will guide you through the development of behavior change communication (BCC) projects using a strategy developed b...
- ILO Governing Body Document on Child Labour Committee on Employment and Social Policy (GB.264/ESP/1)
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
- Improving Reproductive Health: The Role of the World Bank
- A. Tinker; T. Merrick; Alusoji Adeyi / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1999
- Reproductive health is not merely the absence of disease or disability. It is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters related to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. Reproductive health...
- State of the World's Children 1998
- United Nations Children's Fund, 1998
- Focuses on malnutrition. Statistical tables are inlcuded (also in Excel format)
- Investing in Early Childhood Development Programs in Latin America: Toward Definition of an Investment Strategy
- R.G. Myers / Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, 1993
- Examines the arguments for investment in ECCD with a special focus on Latin America, and on the World Bank. Special attention is given to investment concerns and to the role of pre-primary school educuation
- UNDP Poverty report 1998: Overcoming Human Poverty [summary]
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998
- Report notes that around one third of people in developing countries continue to live in ‘income poverty’ — earning less than $1 per day. But it emphasizes the importance of looking beyond income to address human povert...
- Children and women of Nepal: a situation analysis
- NepalNet, 1996
- Sections from the report covering background environment, child survival initiatives and childcare policies.
- Children as Insurance
- C. Pörtner / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
- Paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The model incorporates uncertainty about future income and the survival of children as well as a discrete representation of...
- The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.
- Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa. The aim is to introduce the reader to a broad rang...
- Women's Voices, Women's Lives: The Impact Of Family Planning, A Synthesis of Findings from the Women's Studies Project
- Family Health International, 1998
- The studies examined how women's family planning experiences -- their contraceptive use and non-use, their pregnancies and childbearing, and their experiences with family planning and reproductive health programs -- affected other asp...
- Social Welfare in East Asia: Low Public Spending but Low Income Inequality?
- D. Jacobs / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- “Light” welfare states were perceived by some as one source of East Asian economic dynamism. Paper examines the strengths of several East Asian social welfare systems and the challenges they face after the financial crisis. ...
- Why AIDS orphans are frequently left with limited or no resources
- HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
- The socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are felt in a growing number of countries and increasing mortality rates among adults are threatening economic and social well-being. This study looks at the status, need...
- Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages
- D.C. Clay; T. Reardon / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development program...
- Global Unification the Gambia (GU)
- Global Unification The Gambia (GU) is a chapter of Global Unification International (GUI) in Australia. It is a youth-led research and development, non-political, non-religious, tax exempted charitable, association established in 2006 at the University of the Gambia. In partnership with relevant institutions, its mission is to provide education, skills and strengthen the capacity of yo...
- Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
- The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children. CPAG works to produce evidence about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families. It examines how Government policies affect children and families. CPAG publishes reports, makes submissions and conducts small-scale researc...
- Earth Child Institute (ECI)
- Earth Child Institute is committed to combating climate change, deforestation and water scarcity. By investing in hands-on environment and educational projects with and for children, both in and out of schools. Its goal is to engage with and support empowerment of the world’s 2.2 billion people under the age of 18 to plant trees, ensure access to safe water, sanitation, clean energy and nutr...
- Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE)
- The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya. It was established to address democratic governance, socio?economic and youth concerns with a focus on the coast of Kenya.
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- Countdown to 2015
- The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality.It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institu...
- UNICEF Bangladesh
- The UNICEF Bangladesh country office work in partnership with government ministries, non-government organisations, UN agencies and a wide range of donors in order to solve the problems facing children in Bangladesh. Specifically, UNICEF Bangladesh works on: education health and nutrition protection...
- Global Health Promotion
- Global Health Promotion, is the official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). It is a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education. The title was formerly known as Promotion & Education.
- BASICS fragile and post-conflict states publications
- As part of a multi-donor exercise to deepen the international development community's understanding of health programming in post conflict and fragile environments, BASICS authored a series of papers to distill current thinking and share lessons learned. This website page provides access to the titles of and links to these papers.
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
