- Child labor and schooling in Ghana
- Sudharshan Canagarajah; Harold Coulombe / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- To improve human capital and reduce the incidence of child labor in Ghana, the country's school systems should reduce families' schooling costs, adapt to the constraints on schooling in rural areas (where most children must work at le...
- Economic reform and progress in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Norman Loayza; Luisa Palacios / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- The paper examines the experience in structural reform in five areas—governance, international trade, financial markets, labor markets, and the generation and use of public resources—in countries of Latin America and the Car...
- Distinguishing between Types of Data and Methods of Collecting Them
- Jesko Hentschel / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- In the "quantitative-qualitative" debate, analysts often fail to make a clear distinction between methods of data collection used and types of data generated. Using characteristic information needs for health planning derived from dat...
- Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area
- Meshack Tunee Tjirongo / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
- It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs asso...
- Dualistic sector choice and female labour supply : evidence from formal and informal sectors in Cameroon
- Gauthier Lanot; Christophe Muller / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
- In developing countries, labour supply and activity choices are distorted by the existence of labour market imperfections restricting the entry in the activity sectors or rationing the worked hours. The presence of decreasing returns ...
- The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997
- P. Krishnan; Tesfaye Gebre Selassie; S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiop...
- The political economy of ethnicity
- P. Collier / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- Paper investigates the effects of ethnic diversity on economic performance and the risk of violent conflict. Diversity has various detrimental microeconomic effects, tending to reduce public sector performance, increase patronage, and...
- Notes on Consultancy and Research in Africa
- T. Mkandawire / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Contestation over Political Space: The State and Demobilisation of Party Politics in Kenya
- K. Kanyinga / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Appraises political liberalization and subsequent contestation over political space in Kenya. The discussion centres on how, from the colonial period, elite politics have precluded organization and crystallization of popular democracy...
- The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond
- Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the ori...
- Participation in practice: Lessons from the FAO People's Participation Programme
- People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997
- Starting in the early '80s, the FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP) used small-scale projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop strategies for organizing grass roots rural people in small, informal, self-reliant grou...
- BetterEvaluation
- BetterEvaluation is an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about options (methods or tools) and approaches. It offers online tools and materials organised into tasks: Approaches, Themes and Resources.
- Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
- A non-profit, independent research, policy and outreach organisation working towards achieving sustainable development in the Amazon region
- Forestry Nepal
- Gateway to forestry information on Nepal.
- Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)
- Center for Participatory Research and Development is an independent, non-profit policy, research and implementation institute.
- Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)
- AIDA is a non-profit environmental law organisation that works across international borders to defend threatened ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them.
- Latin American Platform on Climate (LAPC)
- Latin American Platform on Climate (LAPC) is formed of 17 civil society organisations committed to finding answers to climate change challenges in the region.
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
- Practice In Participation
- Participatory portal for community-based practices
- INFOCON
- INFOCON aims to promote a better understanding of how Civil Society Organisations representing Transnational Communities can work on preventing and resolving conflicts in Europe and worldwide. Financed by the EU under the Seventh Framework Programme, this three-year research project was launched in April 2008.
- Localis (http://localis.org.uk/)
- Localis is an independent think-tank based in Westminster, dedicated to issues related to local government and localism. Since its formation it has produced research on a variety of issues including housing, the reform of regional government, innovation in services and local government finance.
