- Why are young people so vulnerable to HIV/AIDS?
- D. Topouzis; G. Hemrich / HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1994
- While youths are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection, they are also the most promising agents of behaviour change. Young men and women are vulnerable to HIV infection because they begin sexual activity at an increasingly...
- Donors and Poverty in Lindi and Mtwara, Tanzania
- N.N. Luanda / Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
- The paper sets out to make some preliminary observations on donor, especially Finnish, attempts at alleviating poverty in Lindi and Mtwara regions. It makes a case for the need for research and practical thought about poverty. The pap...
- Land, Forests and People in Finnish Aid in Zanzibar: Some Preliminary Observations
- C.S.L. Chachage / Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1998
- Sets out to examine the question of aid provision. As part of a general study on Finnish aid, the main focus is on two projects in Zanzibar: Zanzibar Forestry Project (ZFP) and Zanzibar Integrated Lands and Environment Management (ZIL...
- Geographic Targeting: Its Effects on Poverty Reduction
- Poverty Lines, World Bank, 1998
- How effective is geographic targeting as a means for channeling public resources to the poor? Draws on several Latin American case studies
- The Inter-American Development Bank and Poverty Reduction: An Overview
- N. Lustig; R. Deutsch 1998
- Overview of how lending and non-lending activities of the Inter-American Development Bank can contribute to reducing poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, and also offers suggestions for future actions that the Bank can take in ...
- The Role of International Financial Institutions in the Current Global Economy, Address to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations: Joseph Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank
- J. Stiglitz / World Bank, 1998
- Gender and Development Workshop, EDI
- World Bank Institute, World Bank, 1998
- Workshop in April 1998 discussed the social and economic underpinnings of the World Bank's Gender and Development strategy. WWW site has summary of proceedings, bibliography, bulletin board and participants list
- Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty?
- Sanjeev Gupta; Hamid Davoodi; Rosa Alonso-Terme / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998
- Studies of the consequences of corruption have mainly focused on economic efficiency. This paper illustrates that corruption can also have distributional consequences. Corruption increases income inequality and poverty through lower e...
- Towards a New Partnership: Assessment of Government Performance
- A. Mohiddin / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1998
- Lome IV is approaching its natural conclusion. In cooperation of the EU with the ACP countries, the EU has decided to move away from what it calls a partnership dominated by a 'culture of entitlement' to a more practical, realistic an...
- Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia
- S Paulson; ME Gisbert; M Quiton / Family Health International, 1996
- Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design...
- Participation in practice: Lessons from the FAO People's Participation Programme
- People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997
- Starting in the early '80s, the FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP) used small-scale projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop strategies for organizing grass roots rural people in small, informal, self-reliant grou...
- Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery
- J. Loxley; V. Jamal / Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
- Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at ...
