- Appraising Workfare
- M. Ravallion / World Bank Research Observer, 1999
- Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a crisis. This article offers some simple analytical tools that can be used to rapidly appraise the cost-effectivenes...
- Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models
- A. Angelsen; D. Kaimowitz / World Bank Research Observer, 1999
- Synthesizes the results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the causes of tropical deforestation. Raises significant doubts about many conventional hypotheses in the debate about deforestation. More roads, higher agricultural p...
- What are the health and education needs of ethnic minorities in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam?
- M. Elledge; E.| Bloom / Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 2001
- The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) is characterised by ethnic diversity. People from the ethnic minority groups in the GMS are handicapped by lower-than-average levels of health and education, and have not benefited from expanding ec...
- There needs to be more empirical microeconomic research into growth and distributional change
- M. Ravallion / World Bank, 2001
- The poor in developing countries typically share in the gains from rising aggregate affluence, and in the losses from aggregate contraction. Inspired by this evidence, this World Bank paper calls for deeper empirical work on growth an...
- Global Environment Outlook 2000 (GEO 2), UNEP
- Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 1999
- Analyses both global and regional issues: key finding is that the continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation. The prese...
- Aid and Reform in Africa
- S Devarajan; D. Dollar; T. Holmgren / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999
- Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced ...
- Politics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1
- M. Moore; J. Putzel / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFID Policy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the ...
- Balancing sweatshop ethics and economics
- L. Hartman; B. Shaw; R. Stevenson / University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, 1999
- The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations. The paper seeks to find a balance between the developmental needs of ...
- What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
- Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human ...
- Education and Income Distribution: New Evidence from Cross-country Data
- J. De Gregorio; Jong-Wha Lee / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
- Presents empirical evidence on how education is related to income distribution in a panel data set of a broad range of countries for a period between 1960 and 1990. The findings indicate that education factors - higher attainme...
- Child labour: targeting the intolerable
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1998
- Drawing on ILO action against child labour, including the experience of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC at a glance ) and other initiatives, this report chronicles the exploitation and abuse ...
- Finland's Development Cooperation in the 1990s: Strategic goals nd means
- Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1999
- Finland's and EU's development cooperation - a comparison
- Jarle Hårstad; Paul Silfverberg / Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1999
- Upon Finland's entry into the European Union, FINNIDA decided to carry out a comparative analysis of Finland's and EU's development cooperation policies and modalities of relations, in order to identify Finnish obligations, opportunit...
- Development cooperation between Tanzania and Finland
- Harri Porvali; Jorma Ruotsi; Kalle Laaksonen; Ulla Vuorela / Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1999
- The objective of this study is to assess the programme implemented since the 1960s in relation to its policy orientation, efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, an attempt is made to give views on the design and implementation of ...
- Population and Development: Implications for the World Bank
- Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994
- Report examines the changes in population dynamics and in the policy environment that have produced this consensus and explores their policy and operational implications for the World Bank's population work. The report has five core m...
- Land, water and local governance in South Africa: a case study of the Mutale River Valley
- E. Lahiff / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
- This study examines the use and management of natural resources in an area of South Africa at a time of profound political and social change. It takes as its focus the Mutale River valley, which lies almost entirely within Venda, a fo...
- Identifying the Vulnerable: New Evidence from Peru
- Poverty Lines, World Bank, 1997
- Protecting vulnerable groups during episodes of macro-economic contractions is vital to poverty reduction in developing countries. Well-targeted emergency programs can provide temporary income support to the most needy, while longer-r...
- Designing Effective Safety Net Programs
- Poverty Lines, World Bank, 1997
- Safety net programs that target assistance to the poor vary in terms of their effectiveness. One main factor determining a program’s success is design: is it tailored to the particular needs and characteristics of the poor in a g...
- Investing in Infrastructure: A Growth Strategy that Favors the Poor?
- Poverty Lines, World Bank, 1997
- How large are gains from basic infrastructure investments, and to what extent are they beneficial to the poor? Researchers variously argue that such investments can reduce poverty. It may be that the poor have least access to infrastr...
- The lesson from Mahenye: Rural poverty, democracy and wildlife conservation [Campfire Programme]
- M. Murphree / Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources, 1999
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- 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...
