- The world's women 2010 - trends and statistics
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010
- The Beijing Platform for Action – the preeminent international guideline for improving the status of women – lists, among others, specific activities related to increased availability of sex-disaggregated data. It was expe...
- Women's rights, women's resistance: lessons from the Honduran women's collective
- A. L. Restrepo / War on Want, 2011
- Over the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of young women have spent their lives working day and night in the garment factories of Honduras. While jobs in the production plants of export processing zones, or maquila, have offered w...
- Up front: women at work
- War on Want, 2010
- Women make up roughly three quarters of the world’s poor. Despite often having to perform the duties of both a breadwinner and head of household, women earn a mere tenth of global income. Subjected to the most precarious jobs in...
- Is trade policy an appropriate instrument for addressing poverty in the MENA region?
- N. Minot; M.A. Chemingui; M. Thomas / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010
- The effect of agricultural trade liberalisation on poverty varies widely across countries, in part because the effect of liberalisation on agricultural prices is ambiguous. This report examines the impact of trade liberalisation on no...
- Development interventions in Bangladesh - reaching the poor may require an individual rather than group-based approach
- A.R. Quisumbing; B. Baulch; N. Kumar / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
- Programmes are rarely evaluated in terms of both short- and long-term impact. This paper provides an assessment of the long-term impact of three antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh on monetary and non-monetary measures of well-bei...
- Making markets empower the poor: programme perspectives on using markets to empower women and men living in poverty
- E. Sahan / Oxfam, 2011
- Market-based development programmes can help people living in poverty benefit from markets and lift themselves out of poverty. However, many such approaches do not pay attention to power imbalances that perpetuate marginalisation and ...
- Arab countries are advised to improve developmental data and revamp public services
- C. Breisinger; O. Ecker; P. Al-Riffai; B. Yu / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- It is argued that the Arab World has awakened, and it is time to take the next steps. This publication aims to inform and stimulate the debate on key policy priorities for poverty reduction and food security in light of the Arab Awake...
- 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...
- Ethiopia's sesame sector: the contribution of different farming models to poverty alleviation, climate resilience and women's empowerment
- G. Kostka / Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2011
- Oxfam commissioned this research to assess the contribution of different agricultural business models to poverty alleviation, livelihood security, climate resilience, and empowerment of women in the sesame sector in Metekel and Assosa...
- Gender Action Link: gender, IFIs and transparency
- Gender Action, 2011
- International Financial Institutions (IFIs) that primarily loan funds to least developed countries have also committed to fight poverty through providing resources, knowledge and capacity building to achieve sustainable development re...
- Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty
- J.O. LAWAL; B.T. OMONONA; O.D. OYINLEYE / AgEcon Search, 2011
- The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of government. This study examines the effects of f...
- The challenges to disaster risk reduction as expressed by stakeholders in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa
- A. Roth (ed); P. Becker (ed) / African Centre for Disaster Studies, 2011
- South Africa is a dynamic, developing country in a challenging transition as it struggles to protect life and health, property, infrastructure and the environment from disasters. It is generally accepted that prevention is better than...
- Why progress has been slow on the implementation of DRR programmes
- C. Karayalcin; P. Thompson / Laboratory for Social Science Research, International Hurricane Research Center, Florida Internation, 2011
- This paper seeks to explain why progress has been so slow on the implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects and programmes over the last decade. It explains that failure to implement cost-effective DRR projects may resul...
- Does Malawi have the capacity to meet the Millennium Development Goals?
- Government of Malawi, 2010
- This paper presents the Malawi government's statement of progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals are implemented in Malawi through the medium term development strategy known as the Malawi Growth and Development ...
- Brazil's social security system is not sustainable in its current form
- R. Alves de Mesquita; G. Balbinotto Neto / National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
- In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while ...
- The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective
- H. Guzman; E. Espindola; R. Bajraj / United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
- This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population ...
- Linkages between ICTs and the global food price crisis
- J. H. Valk / International Development Research Centre, 2008
- This study identifies four linkages between ICTs and the global food price crisis, each representing a potential entry point for Acacia. The four entry points that this paper presents: Prevention of the crisis ...
- How can Asian economies prepare for their ageing populations?
- S.-H. Lee; A. Mason; D. Park / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Asia faces the challenge of population ageing. Youthful populations that contributed substantially to growth in the past are maturing and countries that currently have relatively youthful populations will also experience substantial g...
- Communication technology can maximise the impact of food price changes on riots
- M. Verpoorten; A. Arora / AgEcon Search, 2011
- Both recent and historic events point to a close link between riots and food prices. This article aims at providing a credible estimate on the impact of food prices on social unrest manifested in the form of demonstrations and/or riot...
- Maintaining affordability and farm gate prices of rice in Bangladesh
- J.K. Basak / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
- Food security is a major concern in Bangladesh due to the ever-increasing population as well as agricultural commodities' heightening costs. This paper sheds light on possible solutions to the challenge facing the Bangladeshi governme...
- 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...
