- Gender, IFIs and food insecurity
- A. Fook / Gender Action, 2011
- Gender Action's analysis demonstrates that IFI-led macroeconomic, financial and trade policies in developing countries intensify gender inequalities by disproportionately impoverishing women and girls. IFIs policies must not only alle...
- Gender and poverty reduction: voice, dialogue and targeting
- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2010
- This study examined the gendered dimensions of poverty in South Africa and their implicationsfor poverty reduction interventions in South Africa. The study identifies and analyses national approaches to understanding and addressing po...
- Because they are girls: mapping Plan’s experience in improving the lives of girls
- S. Hendriks / Plan, 2010
- This publication is the report of a desk study that takes stock of Plan’s efforts to promote gender equality. Fifteen years ago Plan formally adopted the achievement of gender equality as a critical component in its strategy for ...
- Asset Transfer Programme for the Ultra Poor: A Randomized Control Trial Evaluation
- BRAC Education Programme, 2011
- Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR), an innovative approach to address extreme poverty, was launched in 2002 in rural Bangladesh. Evaluation of the first phase of the programme revealed that livelihoods of the partic...
- Social Safety Net Programmes in Bangladesh: A Review
- 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 ...
- ICT in Africa: Boosting Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
- Gerster Consulting, 2008
- The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how Africa and the international community can ad-dress the challenges presented by the current situation in Africa. The situation is characterised by its complexity and diversity. This stems...
- The refugee inflows to Tanzania led to a sharp decrease in poverty in the hosting community
- J.F. Maystadt / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of migrants and their relatives. This paper, however, reviews the way hosting households in Tanzania traced between 19...
- Brot für die Welt
- "Brot für die Welt" ("Bread for the World") is a programme of help initiated by the protestant churches in Germany. It was set up in Berlin in 1959 and since then has been the responsibility of the “Diakonische Werk”, the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). "Brot für die Welt" works jointly with local churches and par...
- The International Journal of Bahamian Studies
- International Journal of Bahamian Studies is a scholarly peer-reviewed research journal published by The College of The Bahamas. The major purposes of the journal are to disseminate products of research and academic activity which are relevant to The College and The Bahamas, and to stimulate participation in such activity by members of The College and the national research community....
- Haiti Gender Equality Collective
- Coalition of women and feminist organizations from diverse backgrounds working in communities in Haiti and within the international arena.
- Interaction of Productive Agents and Future of Bangladesh Economy
- M.S. Mandal (ed) 2012
- Market interaction of productive agents in Bangladesh has greatly changed the relative factor supplies, factor prices and the employment and unemployment of productive agents along with changes in ecological and environmental imbalanc...
- Good practice paper on ICTs for economic growth and poverty reduction
- S. Batchelor (ed) 2005
- This report aims to give an overview of what DAC members (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden...
- Using ICTs for poverty reduction and environmental protection in Kenya
- W. Mungai 2005
- This paper seeks to identify the policy implications of the development of the information society on the attainment of sustainable development goals in Kenya. The paper is premised on the belief that “sustainable development ca...
- Social capital helps women in Bangladesh to invest in their own and their children’s nutritional status
- N. Kumar; A.R. Quisumbing / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2010
- In Bangladesh, rural households headed by women are more likely to be among the poorest. This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men&r...
- Economic development initiatives in South Africa
- 2005
- Africa has been hard hit with poverty and disease and this has had an immense effect on the quality of social, cultural and political lives of the people. This has made development to move at a very slow pace in the last decades. But ...
- The uses of ICT and gendering for sustainable poverty alleviation in Nigeria
- E.A. Obayelu; I. Ogunlade 2006
- This article is a descriptive analysis of the use of ICT for gender empowerment and sustainable poverty alleviation in Nigeria. It describes the roles that ICTs have played in the lives of the poor and the ones yet untapped in Nigeria...
- ICT strategies in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa - the Tanzanian case
- H. Toivanen 2011
- This report offers a short theoretical and conceptual discussion of ICT strategies in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa, and investigates in more detail the Tanzanian case. The paper discusses how ICT’s possible role can and sho...
- Fuelwood collection in Malawi and associated environmental issues
- C.B.L. Jumbe; A. Angelsen / Eldis Document Store, 2010
- In Malawi, biomass energy accounts for more than 90% of the total primary energy consumption, and forests contribute nearly 75% of the total biomass supply. This paper addresses two questions: what determines Malawian household's choi...
- Social protection programmes do not focus on the needs of the elderly
- D.E. Bloom; E. Jimenez; L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
- Despite the growth and extent of social protection programmes (SP) in both developed and developing countries, most emerging economies have systems that are only just coming into existence. Subsequently, only a small portion add...
- How does construction affect disaster risk reduction?
- L. Bosher; A. Dainty / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2011
- This paper examines the role and position of the construction sector in addressing disaster risk reduction. It summarises some of the cross-cutting themes that emerge from a diverse body of literature that has considered various facet...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS
- The BRICS Policy Center (BPC) / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS is a joint initiative of the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). The Center is dedicated to the study of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other middle powers, and it is administered by the Institute of International Relations...
- 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...
- Regional Emergency Cluster Advisor Project (RECA)
- The RECA project is an inter-agency initiative designed to enhance WASH preparedness and response capacity around the world. The project provides direct support in a number of countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It provides dedicated technical and human resources to WASH coordination platforms and stakeholders, through its six Regional Emergency Clu...
- 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.
- International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
- Chinese platform for knowledge sharing, information exchange and international collaboration in the areas of poverty reduction and development.
- Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM)
- The CEDEM is an interfaculty centre which aims to carry out theoretical and empirical research in the fields of human migrations, ethnic relations and racism. Among others, the Centre is interested in the relations between migration processes and uneven development. These researches are led in a pluri-disciplinary perspective: political science, sociology, anthropology, international relations, la...
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi
- The Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation is Malawi Government's main planning agency responsible for national economic and development planning, and monitoring and evaluation of socio-economic issues in the country. Its main mandate is to provide professional advice and technical support to Government and the public on economic and social policy development and management so as to achi...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
