Rural poverty
- 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...
- How did economic crisis and structural adjustment affect the poor?
- F.M. Baye / Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003
- This paper examines changes in the global and national institutional environment in Cameroon since the 1980s and describes their effects on rural poverty. In particular, it focuses on the economic crisis of the mid 1980s and the polic...
- World Bank's new rural development strategy stresses participation and empowerment
- World Bank, 2003
- The "Reaching the Rural Poor" strategy is a follow-up approach to the World Bank's "From Vision to Action" rural development strategy launched of the 1990s. This new strategy stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerm...
- How did economic crisis and structural adjustment affect the poor?
- F.M. Baye / Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003
- This paper examines changes in the global and national institutional environment in Cameroon since the 1980s and describes their effects on rural poverty. In particular, it focuses on the economic crisis of the mid 1980s and the polic...
- World Bank's new rural development strategy stresses participation and empowerment
- World Bank, 2003
- The "Reaching the Rural Poor" strategy is a follow-up approach to the World Bank's "From Vision to Action" rural development strategy launched of the 1990s. This new strategy stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerm...
- States must ensure secure rural land tenure to facilitate rural development
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002
- The purpose of this guide is to provide support to those who are assessing and designing appropriate responses to food insecurity and rural development situations. This guide aims to show where and why land tenure is an important issu...
- Trends in rural-urban labour migration in sub-Saharan Africa
- A. Tostensen / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004
- This CMI working paper provides an overview of rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa outlining the major strands of contemporary academic debates on this issue. There author identifies two interrelated debates for discussion. The...
- How are rural livelihoods affected by linkages into the international economy?
- C. Wilson / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This paper examines the factors impacting on livelihoods in rural India. In particular it investigates the effect of structural changes associated with increased linkages into the external economy, on villagers' levels of poverty. ...
- The gap between rural and urban living standards in South Africa
- D.C Stifel; D.E Sahn / Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003
- This paper examines the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. The authors present levels of urban-rural differences for several African countr...
- Effectiveness of IFPRI's Rural Finance Policies for Food Security programme
- J. Alwang; V. Puhazhendhi / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This study examines the impact of IFPRI's multi-country research project on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor (IRFPP) within four countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi). It also examines IRFPP's contributi...
- Attitudes of bank staff and the provision of financial services to the rural poor
- Howard Jones / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Literature on how to make banking services more pro-poor has paid little attention to the attitudes of those who work in banks. How do rural bank managers judge their work environment and their poor clients? Could changes in bank recr...
- Toolkit for gender-sensitive approaches in sustainable development projects and programmes
- C.S. Ott / Centre for Development and Environment, Berne, 2002
- This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities. It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management. Its modular design allows for indi...
- Factors which encourage and affect non-farm based employment
- A. Gordon / Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000
- Paper suggests that poor rural people seek livelihoods in the non-farm sector: (a) to complement seasonal agricultural incomes; (b) to supplement inadequate (or absent) agricultural incomes; and (c) to take advantage of opportunities ...
- 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
