- Global Pension Systems and Their Reform Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges
- R. Holzmann / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2012
- Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide financial crisis and the adjustment to ...
- Working together for better safety nets
- 2012
- Safety net programmes have proved to be a useful instrument to tackle hunger and malnutrition in Bangladesh. However, insufficient co-ordination between the manifold initiatives causes inefficiencies and limits coverage of poor househ...
- Apartment Housing in High Class Residential Areas of Dhaka City: A Case Study of Dhanmondi, Gulshan and Baridhara
- M.A. Quasem 2004
- Cities are dynamic in nature. They develop as a result of interaction between different social, political, economical and technological forces. This paper is about multi-storey apartment buildings in high-class residential areas of Dh...
- Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion – A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries
- I. Ortiz 2011
- This Unicef Social and Economic Working Paper * provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; * discusses the negative impl...
- Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh : evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project
- World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
- Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regular microfinance, PRIME introduces a...
- Developing Asia’s Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support
- Asian Development Bank Institute, 2012
- Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s R...
- Tackling chronic poverty: The policy implications of research on chronic poverty and poverty dynamics
- Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was founded in 2000 to challenge, through research, the apparent omission of almost a billion people from the 2015 poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals. The first decade of the ...
- Investigating MDGs unity ― can hunger be tackled apart from poverty?
- J. Fanzo; P. Pronyk; A. Dasgupta / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
- One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, a...
- Living on a Spike
- N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011
- The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 20...
- Policy planning for an ageing population
- World Economic Forum, 2012
- If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburdened health care systems. This book...
- Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes? Evidence from El Salvador’s Comunidades Solidarias Rurales
- A. de Brauw / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- Although conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are traditionally evaluated in relation to child schooling and nutrition outcomes, there is growing interest in examining maternal and reproductive health impacts. However, since data collect...
- How People Face Evictions: Lessons from people-led initiatives
- Y. Cabannes / Development Planning Unit, University College London [UCL], 2010
- Forced and market-driven evictions are increasing dramatically worldwide, with devastating effects on millions of children, women and men across the globe. Despite this negative trend, however, many people-led initiatives have been su...
- Impact Study on Developing Local Capacity to Reduce Vulnerability and Poverty
- J. Norton / Building and Social Housing Foundation, UK, 2011
- This report presents findings of a study to assess the impact of the a Development Workshop France (DWF) project in Vietnam to promote the prevention of typhoon damage to housing and public buildings over the last ten years. Conducted...
- Development cooperation beyond the aid effectiveness paradigm: a women's rights perspective
- AWID News, 2011
- The multiple crises that the world is facing—food, climate change, financial, economic, ethical, and in care work—leave no doubt that we are dealing with a systemic, structural crisis. In such times, development aid is par...
- Addressing the political and social causes of exclusion is central to tackling ultra poverty
- J.V. Braun (ed); R.V. Hill (ed); R. Pandya-Lorch (ed) / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- Although many millions of people have exited poverty in recent decades, much of the reduction in poverty has benefited people living close to the poverty line rather than those at the very bottom of the income distribution. This book ...
- Economic growth alone is insufficient for eliminating hunger - halving hunger is linked to other MDGs
- P.A. Sanchez; M.S. Swaminathan / Millennium Project, 2005
- It is unpleasant news that acute hunger represents 10% of the hungry yet receives most of the media coverage and attention. This paper raises the flag that chronic and hidden hunger deserves much more global attention and support. ...
- Experiments indicate no active rise from poverty without increasing agricultural productivity
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008
- No country has managed a rapid rise from poverty without increasing agricultural productivity. This paper notes that agricultural productivity in many parts of the developing world is stagnant with small-scale impoverished farmers oft...
- Wealth, Welfare and Sustainable Growth and Development: Challenges of Economic- and Fiscal Policies in Resource-Producing Countries
- M. Thorvald / Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2011
- For Resource-Producing countries (RPCs), there are two main challenges for economic management: • How should economic- and fiscal policies be designed and executed efficiently to sustain growth and development in the face of exha...
- Adaptational farming practices can halve the increase in hunger resulting from climate change
- M. Parry; A. Evans; M. W. Rosegrant / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge. The report argues that unless climate change is mitigated by...
- Advancing rural infrastructure and improving access to rural livelihood opportunities - breaking the cycle of poverty in Africa
- T. Atinmo; P. Mirmiran; O.E. Oyewole / Organización Panamericana de Salud, 2009
- Poverty, hunger and malnutrition are coexisting in Africa and parts of the Middle East, creating inequalities that need to be addressed politically. This paper reviews the experiences with facing malnutrition in Sub-Saharan and North ...
- Environment & Poverty Times
- Explain the complex links between poverty and the environment
- Development Fund, Norway
- Offering support and partnership to local organisations in efforts to combat poverty and safeguard the environment
- Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- University faculty specialising in research and education in Latin American studies
- ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath (WeD)
- Studying poverty, inequality and the quality of life in developing countries.
- Eldis Poverty Resource Guide
- Guide and news service on poverty issues
- Poverty and Social Policy Team, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK (IDS)
- Engaged in a wide range of academic and applied research
- Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC)
- The Council is a coalition of Canadian organisations working on the frontlines of social justice, humanitarian aid and economic development - both in Canada and developing countries. Through its "In Common" programme the Council seeks to focus public attention on the elimination of poverty.
- Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion
- The UK based New Policy Institute has launched a poverty and social exclusion website - www.poverty.org.uk - which contains regularly updated statistics and links. The site, produced with support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, complements NPI's annual 'Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion' report. This site monitors what is happening to poverty and social exclusion in the UK and comple...
- IMF/World Bank PRSP Comprehensive Review
- Issues surrounding the povery reduction strategy approach
- Center for Economic and Social Rights, USA (CESR)
- Organisation working to include economic and social rights in human rights law and practice
