- What prospects do the twin PRSP and decentrailsation processes offer for improving rural livelihoods in Malawi?
- F. Ellis; M. Kutengule; A. Nyasulu / Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2002
- This paper takes a critical view of the PRSP and decentralisation processes in Malawi based on investigations of rural livelihoods in eight villages in the Dedza and Zomba districts. The paper finds that rural Malawians confro...
- Value of cross-border exchanges between Malawi and Mozambique
- M. Whiteside / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
- Looks at cross-border livelihood interactions between these two areas, and possible development policy synergies. Southern Malawi has one of the most highly populated areas in southern Africa, with high pressure on land and natural re...
- Food security strategies during the Bangladesh floods
- C. del Ninno; P.A. Dorosh; L.C. Smith; D.K. Roy / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This report, based on data from a survey of 757 rural households in seven flood-affected regions (thanas ) and on analysis of secondary data on food grain markets, describes how government policy, well-functioning private markets, hou...
- Five sustainable livelihoods & agriculture case studies
- M. Adato; R. Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- The paper provides an overview of the sustainable livelihoods approach, how it can be applied to agricultural research, and describes detailed methods and results from five case studies: modern rice varieties in Bangla...
- Poverty, growth and environment linkages
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2002
- Focuses on ways to reduce poverty and sustain growth through sound and equitable environmental management. It seeks to draw out the links between poverty and the environment, and to demonstrate that sound and equitable environmental m...
- Review of effectiveness of school feeding programs
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
- Evaluation of USDA's implemention of food for education programmes. It found that: In general, research and expert views on the effectiveness of school feeding programs indicate that the programs are more likely ...
- Extension of government programmes vital to maintain food security
- P. Bhargava / Institute of Development Studies Jaipur, India, 2002
- This paper studies two aspects of food security in Rajasthan availability and access to food for households. The government ensures food security at the household level in two ways: through the Public Distribution System (PDS) and thr...
- Can ecological concerns be accomodated in rural development policies where conservation is not the primary aim?
- R. Grimble; M. Laidlaw / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002
- ODI briefing paper looking at biological resources and their management, for both conservation and people's livlihoods with a view to outlining a framework for best practice. The paper focusses on developments since the Rio Earth Summ...
- Limitation of children as support networks for poor and frail elderly people in Java
- E. Schroder-Butterfill; P. Kreager / Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002
- The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exis...
- Research methods for assseing sustainalble livelihoods in southern Africa
- C. Murray / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2001
- Review of conceptual and methodological issues in the pursuit of livelihoods research, with particular reference to southern Africa. Disparate and partly overlapping frameworks of investigation are outlined, with an emphasis on...
- Raising household energy prices in Poland : who gains? who loses?
- Caroline L. Freund; Christine I. Wallich / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Programs that subsidize household energy prices in the transition economies help the rich more than they help the poor. Not only do the wealthy consume more energy in absolute terms than the poor, but they also spend a larger portion ...
- Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review
- Mattias K.A. Lundberg; Patrick K. Diskin / The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995
- This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits...
- Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management
- L. Mehta; M. Leach; P. Newell; I. Scoones; K. Sivaramakrishnan; S-A. Way / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- The paper examines the nexus between institutions and uncertainty in natural resources management contexts. It argues that conventional understandings of institutions fail to focus on how they deal with the ever-increasing form...
- A livelihoods focus on tourism for enhancing local benefits
- C. Ashley / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Assesses the wide range of impacts that tourism has on the livelihoods of rural residents in parts of Namibia. It aims to serve two purposes. First it illustrates that a focus on livelihoods offers a useful perspective on tourism for ...
- Food-for Work policies and income diversification: comparing Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya
- C.B. Barrett; M. Bezuneh; A. Aboud / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
- This paper presents evidence on the effects of two different sorts of policy shocks on observed income diversification patterns in rural Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya. Research results: In Côte d'Ivoire, ma...
- Petty-traders in peri-urban Africa: burgeoning class of entrepreneurs or underclass of underemployed and unemployed?
- P.D. Little / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
- This article explores the increasing proliferation of petty traders, in Africa's sprawling peri-urban areas. Conclusions: The proliferation of petty traders in most peri-urban areas can be interpreted as an unhea...
- What is the role for targeting the poor in Peru?
- N.R. Schady / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- This article explores geographic targeting of social programs to the poor in Peru. The potential payoffs of such targeting are large, and differences in outcomes with different targeting indicators are small. Geographic targeting is p...
- Assessing poverty through the prism of safety nets: an Indonesian case-study
- S. Sumarto; A. Suryahadi; L. Pritchett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- The "safety net" discussed in this paper guarantees against a poverty fall past an absolute level; the "safety rope" guarantees against a fall of more than a given distance. The safety net is concerned with an increase in poverty; the...
- Why do grandmothers prefer girls? The effects of pensions on child nutrition
- E. Duflo / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000
- This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded ...
- The importance of replacing family allowances with child care subsidies
- M. M. Lokshin / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- The paper models household demand for child care, mothers' labour force participation and working hours, in Russia. The model estimates the effects of the price of child care, mother's wage, and household income on household behaviour...
- Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels (CTA)
- On 4th April, 2012, CTA organised a Briefing on “ACP Small island economies: from vulnerabilities to opportunities” with the European Commission (DG DEVCO), the ACP Secretariat, Concord and various media partners. The Brussels briefings website hosts the video documentation of all the speeches given at the conference, as well as the presentations of the speakers, the programme of...
- Climate Focus
- An advisory company committed to the development of policies and projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development (AJARD)
- Open access journal focusing on agriculture and rural development
- Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
- An interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP)
- The Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP) is an independent think tank serving the Pacific islands community. PiPP engages and connects principal stakeholders, promoting fraternity between the Pacific island countries and regional neighbours such as New Zealand and Australia.
- Integrated Development Society
- Integrated Development Society (IDS) Nepal is a non-for-profit, non-government development organisation working in the field of sustainable development, policy research and knowledge mobilisation.
- Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC)
- The Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) is a six year global research programme exploring livelihoods, basic services and social protection in conflict-affected situations. Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), SLRC was established in 2011 with the aim of strengthening the evidence base and informing policy and practice around livelihoods and servic...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
