- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- Understanding childhood poverty as a multidimensional concept
- P. Dornan; J. Boyden 2011
- This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country. The Young Lives programme is interested in c...
- Papua New Guinea has strong economic growth yet marginalised remote areas
- M.E. Khan; Y. Niimi; M.R.M. Cham / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- Papua New Guinea (PNG) has enjoyed several years of strong economic growth, driven largely by high commodity prices and supported by structural reforms and some sound macroeconomic policies. However, the growing opportunities and weal...
- Predicting the cost and impact of cash transfer programmes: the power of microsimulation tools
- C. O'Brien (ed) / Oxford Policy Management, 2013
- Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty, particularly in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. However pilot schemes are not always modelled at their design stage to esti...
- Benefits and challenges for UNDP when working with non-core funds
- A. Naik (ed) / The Future United Nations Development System, 2013
- Private sources of financing have become a growing feature of UN budgets. This report argues that an evaluation of the private financing of UNDP activities reveals both advantages - increased resources, more technical expertise, bette...
- Asia’s demographic transition will adversely affect its economic growth
- D. Park; K. Shin / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Population ageing affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labour force participation, and total factor productivity. This paper examines the impact of ageing on those four channels in 12 developing Asian economies that c...
- Thailand’s government should open the microfinance sector to greater private sector participation
- K. Bird; K. Hattel; E. Sasaki / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of recent developments in poverty and income inequality in Thailand, summarising the government’s programs to address it, and highlighting the importance of microfinance sect...
- Impacts of skills training program in rural Bhutan
- N. Chun; M. Watanabe / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Income growth in rural Bhutan is a considerable challenge to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a survey of rural Bhutanese households, this paper investigates the impacts of a vocational skills training program...
- Moving women out of poverty through the development of small fish processing enterprises in Malawi
- D. Jamu / Global Forum on Agricultural Research, 2012
- Malawi is one of the countries in Africa which is highly dependent on fish as a source of animal protein. Malawi produces about 70,000 tons of fish annually from its lakes, rivers and swamps. The fishing industry supports the liveliho...
- The Life Cycle of a Gram Daridro Bimochon Committee
- M Rafi / BRAC Education Programme, 2013
- Besides other reasons, to meet the commitments towards Millennium Development Goals BRAC introduced the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting Ultra Poor programme. To facilitate the programme, thus bring positive ch...
- Predicting the cost and impact of cash transfer programmes: the power of microsimulation tools
- C. O'Brien (ed) / Oxford Policy Management, 2013
- Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty, particularly in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. However pilot schemes are not always modelled at their design stage to esti...
- Benefits and challenges for UNDP when working with non-core funds
- A. Naik (ed) / The Future United Nations Development System, 2013
- Private sources of financing have become a growing feature of UN budgets. This report argues that an evaluation of the private financing of UNDP activities reveals both advantages - increased resources, more technical expertise, bette...
- Asia’s demographic transition will adversely affect its economic growth
- D. Park; K. Shin / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Population ageing affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labour force participation, and total factor productivity. This paper examines the impact of ageing on those four channels in 12 developing Asian economies that c...
- Thailand’s government should open the microfinance sector to greater private sector participation
- K. Bird; K. Hattel; E. Sasaki / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of recent developments in poverty and income inequality in Thailand, summarising the government’s programs to address it, and highlighting the importance of microfinance sect...
- Impacts of skills training program in rural Bhutan
- N. Chun; M. Watanabe / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Income growth in rural Bhutan is a considerable challenge to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a survey of rural Bhutanese households, this paper investigates the impacts of a vocational skills training program...
- Moving women out of poverty through the development of small fish processing enterprises in Malawi
- D. Jamu / Global Forum on Agricultural Research, 2012
- Malawi is one of the countries in Africa which is highly dependent on fish as a source of animal protein. Malawi produces about 70,000 tons of fish annually from its lakes, rivers and swamps. The fishing industry supports the liveliho...
- The Life Cycle of a Gram Daridro Bimochon Committee
- M Rafi / BRAC Education Programme, 2013
- Besides other reasons, to meet the commitments towards Millennium Development Goals BRAC introduced the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting Ultra Poor programme. To facilitate the programme, thus bring positive ch...
- Rapid population ageing means challenges for Myanmar
- HelpAge International, 2013
- Myanmar’s population is beginning to age rapidly. According to UN projections, by 2050 older people will comprise a quarter of Myanmar’s total population. Shortly after 2035, persons aged 60 and older will outnumber ...
- ICT, Development, and Poverty Reduction: Five Emerging Stories
- R. Spence 2010
- this article is mostly about mobile phone access and use, as this is the dominant story of the last decade for people in the bottom or base of the pyramid. This is not to deny the importance of broadband, Internet connection, or compu...
- Are Bangladesh’s Recent Gains in Poverty Reduction Different from the Past?
- Z Hassan 2012
- The poor in Bangladesh are more likely to belong to households with a larger number of dependents, lower education, engaged in daily wage labor, own little land and less likely to receive remittances. This poverty profile for 2005 is ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
- The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is a network of 22 member country governments that promotes global change research in the region, increases developing country involvement in that research, and strengthens interactions between the science community and policy-makers.
- Global Metropolitan Studies at the Institute of Urban & Regional Development, UC Berkeley
- The 21st century will be an urban century with more people around the world residing in metropolitan regions than in any other form of human settlement. This urbanization is taking place in both the global North and the global South. Its implications are widespread: from environmental challenges to entrenched patterns of segregation to new configurations of politics and social movements. The Globa...
- 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.
- UNDP India
- UNDP is committed to help India achieve the global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)as well as the national objectives articulated in consecutive Five-Year Plans. The goal of the organization is to help improve the lives of the poorest women and men, the marginalized and the disadvantaged in India. UNDP works in the following areas: Democratic Governance, Poverty Reduction, Crisis Prevention and...
- 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...
- Economics Web Institute
- Institute focusing on economics and management
