- 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...
- Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)
- CARDI is a not for profit organisation developed by leaders from the ageing field across Ireland (North and South) including age focused researchers, academics, statutory, voluntary and community sector representatives. It aims to advocate for and advance the ageing research agenda by identifying, coordinating, stimulating, and communicating strategic research on ageing and older peopl...
- 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...
- How water management practices must adapt in the Americas
- Water and Climate Change in the Americas, 2012
- This solutions document, a product of the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (comprised of 21 different agencies), seeks to address the ways in which water management practices must cha...
- Deprivation and vulnerability among elderly in India
- S. Prasad / Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2011
- The Indian aged population is currently the second largest in the world next to that of china. The absolute number of the population aged over 60 in India is predicted to increase from 77 million in 2001 to 137 million by 2021. This p...
- Weapons, Violence and the perpetrator-victim nexus in South Africa
- K. Thaler / Microcon, 2011
- Given the high levels of crime and violence in South Africa, there may be a temptation for citizens to arm themselves for protection. Using quantitative survey data from the Cape Area Panel Study and qualitative interviews with reside...
- UNDAF - UN programme to assist Jamaica to meet development objectives
- United Nations Development Programme, 2011
- Jamaica is on track to ensure environmental sustainability and to eradicate extreme hunger, but it faces a number of development challenges. United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2012-2016 provides a coordinated stra...
- Climate Change Bandwagoning: The Impacts of Strategic Linkages on Regime Design, Maintenence, and Death
- S. Jinnah 2011
- Although climate linkages are prolific across various types of social organisation, this special issue focuses of the wide range of ways that international regimes are strategically linked to climate change politics. In recent years w...
- Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2012
- This paper presents the problems of poverty in the U.S. from the perspective of the notion of “extreme poverty,” regarded as a violation of human rights. By choosing the United States as the case study, this paper seeks to...
- Overview of water-related climate change risks, examining water supply and demand adaptive strategies
- A. Nicol; N. Kaur / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strate...
- Integrating gender issues in food security, agriculture and rural development
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
- In line with ongoing reforms aimed at a more effective and coherent UN system and wider efforts for greater harmonization and alignment of aid delivery, Joint Programmes have become increasingly numerous over the past two years. Joint...
- Evolution of gender and poverty dynamics in Tanzania
- L. da Corta / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- In Tanzania, liberalisation and de-agrarianisation have led to unequal growth; stagnating and in some cases increasing poverty; fragmented landholdings; and a rise in the cost of essentials. Local user costs also continue to cripple l...
- Inheritance practices and gender differences in poverty and well-being in rural Ethiopia
- N. Kumar / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- This paper examines the role of men’s and women’s asset inheritance on the poverty and well-being of women and their families in rural Ethiopia. We use data from the 1997, 2004 and 2009 rounds of the Ethiopian Rural Househol...
- Attacking Poverty Program, World Bank Institute (APP)
- Capacity building to implement poverty reduction strategies
- International Agriculture Program, Cornell University
- Supports an academic program, training activities and selected international projects to find solutions to the problems of world hunger and poverty
- WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief
- Conference in Helsinki, 17-18 August 2001
- Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO (CMH)
- Analyses the impact of health on development
- Social Watch
- Monitors implementation of the world governments' commitments to eradicate poverty and achieve gender equity
- Social Development and Poverty Alleviation Division, UNDP (SEPED)
- Focuses on poverty, HIV & health, sustainable livelihoods, gender, civil society, and indigenous peoples
- International Poverty Health Network (IPHN)
- Website focusing on poverty and health
- Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank
- Provides an overview of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs)
- MacArthur Network, Princeton University
- Research on measurement of inequality and poverty
- Povertynews [Yahoo Group]
- Mailing list about poverty, development and projects in developing countries
