- 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...
- Eight principles of self-sufficiency and productivity
- S. Lautze / Feinstein International Center, USA, 1997
- Paper presents set of principles as the basis of a livelihoods strategy for complex emergencies and suggests appropriate actions to implement measures.Principles and actions suggested include: rigorous assessment - pre...
- Sustainable livelihoods as an approach to poverty alleviation
- J. Farrington; D. Carney; C. Ashley; C. Turton / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
- What is poverty – and how it can best be addressed – are central questions at conceptual and practical levels in international development. Increased donor commitment to tackling poverty has made the search for answers mor...
- The contributions of migration for poor households
- A. Haan / Department for International Development, UK, 2000
- Aims to inform development policy debates with an improved understanding of migration. The paper starts from the idea that these debates pay too little attention to the contribution of migration to poverty reduction: policies tend to ...
- Interactions between wildlife, livestock and people from a livelihoods perspective
- C. Boyd; R. Blench; D. Bourn; L. Drake; P. Stevenson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
- From the perspective of local livelihoods this paper explores the complex interactions between wildlife, livestock and people, and options for integrated wildlife and livestock management in the semi-arid rangelands of eastern Africa....
- Food Aid Targeting in Ethiopia: A Study of Household Food Insecurity and Food Aid Distributions
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Examines food aid targeting efficiencies and the determinants of food aid distributions in rural Ethiopia during the 1995-96 agricultural year. It is based on survey data from a nationwide, randomly selected sample of 4,166 farm house...
- Meeting Food Aid and Price Stabilization Objectives Through Local Grain Purchase: A Review of the 1996 Experience [in Ethiopia]
- W Amha; J. Stepanek; T.S. Jayne; A Negassa / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- Aims to identify factors that can improve the ability of future local purchase activities to achieve a range of national food policy objectives. This analysis reviews the design and implementation of 1996 local purchase activities in ...
- Social impacts of the Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand
- World Bank Office, Thailand, 1999
- Regular report on the social effects of the crisis, eash issue profiling a specific issue. These have included Social capital: what should be the role of family and community in providing social safety ...
- Features and challenges in applying the sustainable livelihoods approach
- D. Carney / Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- This article outlines some of the features of the 'livelihoods approach' to development, and why these are likely to be more successful in reducing poverty than previous approaches over the past five decades. Casting aside the assumpt...
- Manual for policy and implementation
- J. Del Rosso / School Health, 1999
- Designed to assist those engaged in the process of creating new School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) or seeking to improve the effectiveness of on-going ones. It is based on a review of the SFP research and program literature from the las...
- Do food subsidies benefit the poor?
- R. H. Adams Jr. / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- Food subsidy programs are under increasing criticism in many developing countries because of their large contributions to government budget deficits. According to critics, food subsidies pose both an unnecessary burden on the public b...
- 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...
