- Botswana: Encouraging sustainable family sector agriculture
- M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
- Paper concentrates on services and policies needed to support sustainable family sector agriculture in the east of Botswana where the majority of the population and the largest number of resource poor people are concentrated. It does ...
- Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture
- M. Whiteside; S. Carr / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
- Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestat...
- Namibia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture
- P. Vigne; M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
- Report recommends agriculture-sector poliy objective of risk reduction, production stability, and the diversification of agricultural and non-agricultural economic opportunities in the rural areas. The most fundamental problem remains...
- What Happened in East Asia: How Can it be Understood and What Can Development Organisations Do?
- K. Bezanson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Analysis based on the convergence of viewpoints of a meeting held at IDS Sussex in July 1998. Policy recommendations include: Focus on structuring orderly debt workouts Modify and expand the HIPC initiative ...
- When the whole is more than the sum of the parts: the effect of cross-border interactions on livelihood security in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique
- M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1998
- Report on the poor and deteriorating livelihood security situation in Southern Malawi. Looks at issues of livelihood insecurity in both southern Malawi and some of northern Mozambique. It then looks at different types of cross border ...
- Rural finance and poverty alleviation
- M. Zeller; M. Sharma / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- Presents information on the credit constraints that poor rural households face, derived from detailed rural household surveys conducted by IFPRI and its collaborators in nine countries of Asia and Africa (Bang ladesh, Cameroon, China,...
- Poverty and environment: priorities for research and policy
- T. Forsyth; M. Leach; I. Scoones / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Objectives of this study are: (a) to provide an analytical overview of existing research and approaches adopted to address interlinkages between poverty and environment; (b) to identify gaps in understanding and potential conflicts be...
- Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan
- B. Baulch; N. McCulloch / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Conventional poverty profiles and poverty status regressions are often criticised by policy makers for telling them a lot about who the poor are, but very little about what to do to combat poverty. Essentially this is because the corr...
- Participatory Governance: The Missing Link for Poverty Reduction
- H. Schneider / OECD Development Centre, 1999
- Empowerment of the poor is one ingredient in effective poverty reduction. A demand-driven participatory approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency. Accountability is the central lever for participatory governance. Capacity buildin...
- How Do Bangladeshi Elites Understand Poverty?
- N. Hossain / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- The poverty of most Bangladeshis is viewed as an important - but not urgent - issue by Bangladesh's elites. They do not feel threatened by the extent of poverty, or by poor people. Some sections of the elite appear to know little abou...
- Changes in Poverty in Uganda, 1992-1996
- S. Appleton / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- Analysis of four nationally representative household surveys from Uganda show a fall in poverty from 1992-1996. Using an absolute poverty line calculated following Ravallion and Bidani, we find 56% of Ugandans were poor in 1992 fallin...
- Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future
- Oxfam, 1998
- The Tanzanian Government has committed itself to a long-term strategy aimed at eradicating poverty by 2025. Sectoral plans have been drawn up aimed at achieving progress towards universal primary education and the expansion of basic h...
- Poverty and environment: electronic conference and background paper, October 1998
- European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 1998
- Archive of electronic discussions held in October 1998. Inlcudes full text and commentary on background paper by Tim Forsyth and Melissa Leach with Ian Scoones (from IDS) on "Poverty and the environment: priorities for research and po...
- Adjustment and Poverty in Asia: Old Solutions and New Problems
- F. Stewart / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998
- Analyses how adjustment policies affected the poor in Asian economies, focussing on the period up to 1997. It shows that there was a significant reduction in both private income poverty and social income poverty over the previous thir...
- Economic Growth and Human Development
- A. Ramirez; G. Ranis; F. Stewart / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998
- Explores the links between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, and the other, conversely, from human development to economic growth. The various links in each c...
- Directory of Non-Governmental Organisations Active in Sustainable Development, Part I: Europe
- NGO directories, 1996
- Directory available on CDROM. Comprehensive source of information on 3 900 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 26 countries in Europe active in the field of sustainable development. It provides detailed NGO profiles and crossrefe...
- Better aid allocation could raise an extra 50 million people out of poverty
- P. Collier; D. Dollar / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations. Paper uses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relations...
- Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action
- D. Lewis / Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 1998
- Makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two 'parallel universes' of literature. The first of these is work which focuses on the 'North' (on what are often terme...
- Measuring Income Mobility with Dirty Data
- F.A. Cowell; C. Schulter / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- Examines the performance of measures of mobility when allowance is made for the possibility of data contamination. We find that “single-stage” indices – those that are applied directly to a sample from a multivariate in...
- Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare
- D. Jacobs / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- Overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data a...
- 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...
