- Corruption, violence, powerlessness, insecure livelihoods: universal features of poor peoples' lives
- PovertyNet, World Bank, 2001
- Discusses new estimates of the extent of global income poverty and new evidence on social indicators by economic group, and reports on the finding of a major study on what poverty means to the poor. The article shows that poor ...
- Are Poverty Reduction and Other 21st Century Social Goals Attainable?
- L. Demery; M. Walton / PovertyNet, World Bank, 1998
- Assesses empirically how attainable are two of the goals set by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee for the year 2015-halving the incidence of poverty and reducing child mortality by two-thirds. Finds that the evidence ...
- Research suggests that physical and sexual abuse are linked to a range of reproductive health issues. This report explores ways of ensuring that gender-based violence is addressed in health care.
- Panos Institute, London, 1998
- Gender violence causes more death and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or even war. The World Health Organization believes that at least one in five women has been physically or sexually abu...
- Coping with uncertainty - Petty producers in postwar Mozambique
- J. Billetoft / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Since the early 1990s, Mozambican society has undergone significant changes. The Peace Accord in 1992 enabled demobilisation of most former soldiers and repatriation of almost two million refugees from the neighbouring countries, and ...
- National Agricultural Research Systems: Focus on Sustainability
- Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999
- The Bank's lending experience shows three factors to be essential for preserving the research systems: borrower appreciation of the nature of agricultural research and of its role in economic growth, appropriate research planning and ...
- Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness
- Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
- Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade. But this progress cannot be sustained unless (a) the implementation of a large unfinished agenda of adjustment is accel...
- Gender Issues in World Bank Lending
- Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
- This report examines the evolution of Bank strategy to integrate gender issues in Bank lending across sectors since 1967, and the outcomes achieved so far. It reconstructs the evolution of Bank thought and actions in some depth throug...
- Structural and Sectoral Adjustment World Bank Experience, 1980-92
- Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
- Adjustment lending has been the subject of considerable scrutiny and debate. Six years ago, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) published its first review of experience with this form of lending. Since then a number of Bank rev...
- An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor
- K.N. Ninan / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnatak...
- Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective
- S. Folke / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Povert...
- The OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI): update
- Oxfam, 1998
- The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is a new investment treaty being negotiated between the world's industrialised countries in the OECD. This briefing paper explains why Oxfam believes that the draft MAI falls far short of...
- Practical Action to Eliminate Child Labour: background paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
- International Labour Organization, 1997
- Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
- International Labour Organization, 1997
- Short-Term Capital Flows, The Real Economy and Income Distribution in Developing Countries
- E.V.K. FitzGerald / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997
- The volatility of short-term capital flows (or ‘capital surges') is now recognized as a major problem for macroeconomic management in developing countries; but the consequences for the ‘real' economy - that is, the behaviour...
- 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...
- 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...
