Rural poverty
- Successes of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for rural poverty reduction
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
- This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty. The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia...
- Collaboration in microfinance services should be executed through professional channels
- M. S. Sriram / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005
- This paper reviews the performance of formal institutional channels of microfinance and discusses the emergence of new forms of collaboration in the delivery of microfinance services. Some pertinent issues in regulatory policies and i...
- Community based monitoring systems in the Philippines
- C.M. Reyes / Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005
- This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines. ...
- Membership based organisations for the poor in NE Brazil
- W.E. Bresnyan Jr.; F. Russo / Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 2005
- This paper discusses the origins of Community Driven Development (CDD) in Brazil and compares it to earlier integrated rural development projects. It also sheds some light on the breadth, depth and scale of investments undertaken thro...
- How have the poor recovered from drought in rural Ethiopia?
- P.D. Little; M.P. Stone; T. Mogues; A.P. Castro; W. Negatu / BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
- This paper examines the degree to which the drought of 1999-2000 affected poverty trends in rural Ethiopia, and looks at how strategies in the coping and/or recovery period can assist drought-affected households. It finds that when th...
- Drought as a social and political issue, rather than a natural risk
- E. Patrick / Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2005
- The principle objective of this discussion paper is to propose that drought should be managed as an aspect of development, as opposed to simply a natural hazard. It argues that drought management should be mainstreamed with other aspe...
- Contrasting dynamics of household poverty in Rural Bangladesh
- B. Sen / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004
- This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty...
- Strategies to implement universal access to rural infrastructure
- S. Bery; D.B. Gupta; R. Krishna; S. Mitra / National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2004
- Rural infrastructure assumes great importance in India because of the country’s predominantly rural nature, the crucial linkages of infrastructure to economic growth, poverty alleviation and human development, and the poor availa...
- Rural road improvements in Peru raised income but not consumption
- J. Escobal; C. Ponce / Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002
- This paper examines the impacts of rehabilitating rural roads on key welfare indicators such as income and consumption. It aims to complement previous studies which have concentrated mainly on reductions in monetary or time costs need...
- Civil society perspectives on poverty in Mozambique
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
- This report highlights civil society perspectives on poverty in Mozambique. It sets out to convey concerns about poverty and possible points of intervention from the perspective of the different levels of Mozambican society. Th...
- Rural road improvements in Peru raised income but not consumption
- J. Escobal; C. Ponce / Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002
- This paper examines the impacts of rehabilitating rural roads on key welfare indicators such as income and consumption. It aims to complement previous studies which have concentrated mainly on reductions in monetary or time costs need...
- Civil society perspectives on poverty in Mozambique
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
- This report highlights civil society perspectives on poverty in Mozambique. It sets out to convey concerns about poverty and possible points of intervention from the perspective of the different levels of Mozambican society. Th...
- Sharing experience of the role of equity share schemes in land reform in South Africa
- M. Lyne; M. Roth / BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
- This proceedings issue from a mini conference held in November 2004 presents six papers summarising attempts to establish best practice equity-share schemes on two commercial farms in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The main object of ...
- How does globalisation lead to environmental degradation and poverty?
- R.M. Aggarwal / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
- This paper looks at how globalisation leads to poverty via the degradation of local ecosystems on which the poor depend for their livelihood. It uses models on ecosystem dynamics from ecology and links them to models in New Ins...
- Domestic responses to poverty are vital for the benefits of globalisation
- P. Bardhan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
- This paper looks at the impact of globalisation on rural poverty, in both the agricultural and non-agricultural sector. The paper analyses the processes through which globalisation, in terms of openness to foreign trade and lon...
- Assessing the impact of credit referencing on the poor
- A. de Janvry; E. Sadoulet; C. McIntosh; B. Wydick / BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2003
- This report investigates the development of the microfinance sector and the penetration of credit reporting systems in Peru, Guatemala, and Bolivia, where they are quite widespread. The three countries are covered individually: ...
- Poverty in Nepal is mostly a rural phenomenon
- I. Maltsoglou; K. Taniguchi / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
- This paper examines Nepal’s economic stagnation in the fact of global economic growth. This paper aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the features that characterise the poor in Nepal and to determine the role livestock play...
- Donor assistance necessary to facilitative political leverage among poor livestock producers
- D.K. Leonard / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
- This paper analyses political organisation and action that can be used to overcome the lack of voice of poor producers in the domestic and international policy arenas. The study builds on case studies from Vietnam, India, Ethiopia, Se...
- Specific suggestions for operationalising IFAD policy
- International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2004
- This paper provides concrete operational recommendations for acting on the challenges posed in the IFAD Rural Finance Policy and the Strategic Framework for IFAD 2002-2006. These challenges include: building sustainable...
- Labour migration in Nepal is highly complex, but demands further analysis
- G. Gill / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal. The primary purpose of the study was to: test the methodology being used to develop a...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Pro Mujer
- Women's development and microfinance organisation in Latin America
- Andes/Amazon Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) program (ESPA-AA)
- A research project focusing on ecosystems services and poverty in the Andes and Amazon
- Agros International
- US-based international CSO working to combat rural poverty in Central America and Mexico. Agros International is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty for rural families in Central America and Mexico by enabling landless communities to achieve land ownership and economic stability. Having learned that the root causes of poverty extend across communities and are passed down from generation to...
- WWF South Pacific programme
- Promoting environmental sustainibility and socio-economic development in the South Pacific
- CHF (CHF)
- Canadian NGO working to enable poor rural communities to attain sustainable livelihoods
- International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD)
- Network about mobility and transport in rural areas
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
