- 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 ...
- What contribution does the installation of solar water heaters make towards the alleviation of energy poverty in South Africa?
- H. Wlokas / Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
- The South African government has publicised plans to install one million solar water heaters in households throughout South Africa by the year 2014, with the goals of reducing strain on existing electricity resources, mitigating green...
- Participation in Self-help Group Activities and its Impacts: Evidence from South India
- D S kumar / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- Institution building is now recognized as vital for poverty reduction across the world. This paper focuses on the determinants of participation in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and its impacts on household welfare. The participation in SHG ...
- Realising the Right to Development in Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges
- S R Osmani / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2010
- By signing and ratifying various human rights instruments, the State of Bangladesh has committed itself to pursuing socio-economic policies in a way that would promote its people’s right to development, understood as integrated ...
- Restoring balance: Bangladesh's rural energy realities
- M. Asaduzzaman / World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
- Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's 140 million people reside in rural area.Low-lying areas are vulnerable to severe flooding, while other regions are prone to drought, erosion, and so...
- NGOs’ Strategies and the Challenge of Development and Democracy in Bangladesh
- N Kabeer / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- Recent research Bangladesh has come to embody an interesting paradox. On the one hand, it has experienced rising rates of growth, a slow but steady decline in poverty and impressive progress in terms of social development, outperformi...
- Poverty, Equity and Access to Education in Bangladesh
- A Hossain / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2010
- Bangladesh has made great improvements in the scale and quality of access to education in recent years and gender equality has almost been achieved in primary education (World Bank, 2008). Evidence from CREATE’s nationwide commun...
- Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe
- G. A. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2011
- Spurred by the ageing transition, many governments have made wide-ranging reforms, dramatically changing Europe?s pensions landscape. Nevertheless there remain concerns about future costs, while unease about adequacy is growing. This ...
- Agriculture biodiversity and food security: two sides of a coin
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2010
- Biodiversity underpins the agriculture productivity. Recent worldwide food crisis has raised the issue of food security to an urgent basis. Many are arguing that worldwide economic meltdown might cause the crisis. other finds a causal...
- World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD)
- World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) is a global forum that brings together people from across the world to discuss key issues relating to science and technology management that impact the world sustainable development. The aims of WASD are to promote the exchange of knowledge, experience, information and ideas among academicians, scholars, professionals, policy & decisio...
- Brief 11 - Women’s economic empowerment in the Arab region: how chronic development challenges and the global crises triggered people’s revolutions
- K. Mohamadieh / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011
- Brief 11: Women’s economic empowerment in the Arab region provides an analysis on how the global crises has contributed to exacerbating an already deteriorated context in the Arab region which is marked by political repression, l...
- Women exiting chronic poverty: empowerment through equitable control of households’ natural resources
- J. Espey / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- This paper examines the relationship between women’s vulnerability to poverty and their management of domestic natural resources. It finds that gendered experiences of poverty often derive from discriminatory social institutions ...
- Supporting civic activism among chronically poor women
- R. Amosu / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- This study was undertaken with the support of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, the Overseas Development Institute, and the George Washington University. Through in-country and desk research, the research team assessed the extent t...
- Annotated bibliography: The efficacy of women’s social movements to include chronically poor women and give voice to their demands
- R. Amosu / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- Social movements are known to struggle to include, or be representative of, chronically poor women (Mumtaz, 2005; Schady, 2001; Thorp et al., 2005). The objective of this annotated bibliography and the accompanying literature review i...
- Addressing chronic poverty and vulnerability through social assistance in Tanzania: assessing the options
- A. Shepherd / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- Insecurity and vulnerability are widespread in Tanzania. Many people appear trapped in poverty, lacking the resources to participate in growth. Economic growth has not reduced income poverty as expected and upward mobility has become ...
- Growth without poverty reduction in Tanzania: reasons for the mismatch
- O. Mashindano / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- This paper seeks to examine why economic growth in Tanzania in recent years has not led to poverty reduction in the country. It analyses data and findings from a range of literature and national accounting data. One reason for this tr...
- Literature review: The efficacy of women’s social movements to include chronically poor women and give voice to their demands
- R. Amosu / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- Social movements are known to struggle to include, or be representative of, chronically poor women (Cleaver, 2005; Mumtaz, 2005; Schady, 2001; Thorp et al., 2005). The objective of this review and annotated bibliography is to examine ...
- Social Safety Net Programmes in Bangladesh: A Review
- B.E. Kuda / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2011
- The major social safety net programmes (SSNPs) in Bangladesh can be divided under four broad categories: (i) employment generation programmes; (ii) programmes to cope with natural disasters and other shocks; (iii) incentives provided ...
- Demographic transition and policy challenges
- Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2012
- Bangladesh has experienced a large growth of population in the past, but due to the success of family planning programmes, the level of total fertility rate has declined rapidly.Human capital accumulation factors have been emerging as...
- Household Welfare Effects of Low-cost Land Certification in Ethiopia
- S. T. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
- Several studies have shown that the land registration and certification reform in Ethiopia has been implemented at an impressive speed, at a low-cost, and with significant impacts on investment, land productivity, and land rental mark...
- Bread for the World
- Focuses on supporting policies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty
- Poverty Reduction Learning Network
- Focuses on poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa via strong policy analysis and management capacity both in the public sector and civil society
- DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor
- Full texts and background papers of the UK Government's policy paper on globalisation and the poor
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, IMF (PRSP)
- Presents country PRSPs
- ADB Institute (ADBI)
- Research and capacity building institute focussing on poverty reduction and long-term growth in the Asia-Pacific
- Africa Region Household Survey Data Bank
- Covers searchable information on monitoring and measuring poverty contained within searchable Africa Household Survey Data Bank programme, providing documention from surveys and censuses.
- ACC Network on Rural Development and Food Security
- Mobilises support for government efforts to implement rural development and food security programmes; reinforces ties between UN organisations and other stakeholders; fosters synergy and avoid duplication of efforts; exchanges and disseminates information, experiences and best practices
- Globalization, Development and Poverty: online discussion
- Email discussion forum (with WWW archive) focusing on the impact of globalisation on development and poverty. Discussion ended May 2000
- Directory of household surveys and participatory poverty assessments, World Bank
- Directory of national household surveys, social indicators, poverty assessment summaries and participatory poverty assessments focusing on those related to poverty issues
- Asia Recovery Information Center, ADB (ARIC)
- Reports on recovery from the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-9
