- Exploration of intrahousehold behavior and its implications for empirical analysis and policy prescriptions
- L.C. Smith; J-P. Chavas / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
- Paper illustrates how an intrahousehold approach can contribute to a better understanding of microeconomic allocation decisions and policy impacts. For the West African setting in particular, it shows that price policy impacts depend ...
- Routes to action and organisation
- A. Joshi; M. Moore / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
- Paper aims to develop a set of concepts and a language to help understand better how "external agencies" could contribute to the (collective) empowerment of poor people through the ways in which they design, organise, and implement an...
- How effective are the Governments measures to combat corruption?
- K. Owino / Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya, 2000
- Looks at the phenomena of corruption and its effects, international perceptions of corruption in Kenya and government attempts to address the issue. It discusses the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and the Bribe Payers Index ...
- The Kenyan budget: do the figures add up?
- D. Okello / Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya, 2000
- Analysis of first quarter allocation and expenditure trends in seven ministries - all considered critical to poverty eradication. Looks at whether allocations made correspond with expenditure incurred. Finds that: ...
- Background and analysis of the Pakistan Supreme Court’s recent judgement against riba and its implications
- Khurshid Ahmad / Institute of Policy Studies, Pakistan, 2000
- When we are entering the 21st century, we are entering a situation where poverty and affluence co-exist, where distribution of income and wealth is becoming more and more skewed in favor of a few, in favor of certain regions, and glob...
- Toward an Islamic approach to poverty alleviation
- Khurshid Ahmad / Institute of Policy Studies, Pakistan, 1997
- The poverty situation in which we find ourselves in this country is a sad one. Without grueling about whether a particular index of poverty prevails, aggravation by a few points or amelioration by few points, the nature, the extent, t...
- Recommendations for research to facilitate non-agricultural rural income generation
- F Limbu / Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2000
- The study is a state of art review on non-agricultural activities and their role in raising productivity and alleviating poverty. The paper aimed at reviewing the literature related to rural non-agriculture activities (RNAs) in Tanzan...
- Conceptualising an Islamic approach to poverty alleviation
- M. H. Sahibzada / Institute of Policy Studies, Pakistan, 1997
- Any scheme of poverty alleviation will be judged for its impact on the intended clientele group, in the background of the overall government policies and plans, more particularly at the macro level. It is the macroeconomic and fiscal ...
- Detailed breakdown of the impact of various economic reforms on different sectors of society
- S. Wangwe / Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1997
- The aim of the study was to identify and analyse the impacts of economic reform programmes and policies on poverty alleviation. In particular it examined how economic reforms impinge on poverty alleviation (directly or indirectly) in Tanzan...
- Can broad-based economic growth be achieved?
- S. Wangwe / Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1995
- The study on growth potential was contracted to the Foundation by the World Bank as a background paper for the Tanzania 1995 Country Economic Memorandum. The study addressed the potential for broad-based economic growth and the source...
- Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
- The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, p...
- The costs and benefits of Korean Unification
- M. Noland; S. Robinson; Li-Gang Liu / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1997
- "We construct the Korean Integration Model (KIM), a two-country computable general equilibrium (CGE) model linking the North and South Korean economies. Using KIM, we simulate the impact of a customs union and a monetary union of the ...
- Open regionalism
- C.F. Bergsten / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1997
- “Open regionalism” represents an effort to resolve one of the central problems of contemporary trade policy: how to achieve compatibility between the explosion of regional trading arrangements around the world and the global...
- Decentralization and macroeconomic management
- Teresa Ter-Minassian / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- There is a vast and growing body of literature covering the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization. The literature has also amply discussed the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribut...
- How macroeconomic factors affect income distribution : the cross-country evidence
- Michael Sarel / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The effects of macroeconomic factors on income distribution are of major concern to economists and have critical policy implications. Surprisingly, despite the fact that income distribution is one of the most investigated issues in ec...
- Income distribution and social expenditure in Brazil
- Benedict J Clements / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper examines trends in income distribution in Brazil and the determinants of income inequality, including social expenditure. The distribution of income in Brazil is among the most unequal in the world and also highly skewed re...
- Tax burden and migration : a political economy perspective
- Assaf Razin; E Sadka / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Better Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil
- F. Shaxson; M. Tiffen; A. Wood; C. Turton / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- Soil erosion has conventionally been perceived as the chief cause of land degradation, yet the limited effectiveness and poor uptake of widely promoted physical and biological anti-erosion methods challenges this logic. An alternative...
- Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia
- C. a Garforth; A. Lawrence / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
- There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies...
- Desertification and drought - extent and consequences proposal for a participatory approach to combat desertification
- FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1995
- 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...
