Rural poverty and livelihoods
- Successful community development in post-conflict Nepal
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A rural development project in Nepal provides insights into the feasibility of poverty reduction activities in conflict-affected areas. Designed in a participatory way, activities include irrigation, hydropower and school building in addition to micro-enterprise and institutional development. The project was cost-effective, utilised local skills and resources, and benefits were shared equitably among the target communities.
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- Directions for pro-poor forestry in Kyrgyzstan and surrounding Central Asian countries
- ( R.J Fisher;Kaspar Schmidt;Brieke Steenhof / Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository , 2004)
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Though forests occupy a relatively small proportion of West and Central Asia, they have historically been important to the people living in and around them.This paper examines the potential of fore...
Is Yemen in danger of becoming a 'failed state'?
- ( G. Hill / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2008)
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Yemen is the poorest nation in the Arab world, its location means it acts as a buffer zone between the Horn of Africa and Saudi Arabia and its president’s thirty year reign has been recently ...
- Reasons for high localisation of inequality in Mozambique
- ( C. Rosário;I. Tvedten;M. Paulo / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2009)
- The objective of this study on poverty in Mozambique is to support the government in monitoring and evaluating the ongoing "Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty". The paper focu...
- Structural causes of rural poverty in Latin America
- ( C. Kay / Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS , 2009)
- Neither the state-driven development strategy of import-substitution industrialisation from the late 1940s to the 1970s nor the neoliberal market-driven strategy since the 1980s has been able to resol...
- Taking a multi pronged approach to tackling food insecurity in Arab countries
- ( J. Lampietti;N. Magnan;S. Michaels;et al. / World Bank Publications , 2009)
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Arab countries are more exposed than other countries to severe swings in agricultural commodity prices due to the high level of food imports, especially cereals, and continued population growth and...
- Poverty reduction through livelihoods diversification in rural Tanzania
- ( J. de Weerdt / Journal of Development Studies , 2009)
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In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are ...
Using cell phones to deliver cash transfers: a RHVP pilot project in Lesotho
- ( K. Vincent;T. Cull;N. Freeland / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2009)
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While there is growing evidence of cash transfers reducing hunger and vulnerability, less is known about effective delivery mechanisms for such transfers, particularly in remote areas. In this resp...
From microfinance to rural development: the potential of rural finance
- ( G. Athmer / Rural Finance Learning Center , 2009)
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While literature on microfinance best practices is readily available these days, less is known about the broader field of rural finance. Given their expertise in ...
- Building resilient communities
- ( D. Hegney;H. Ross;P. Baker;et al. / Learning for Sustainability , 2008)
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How can a sense of community contribute to the resilience of individuals and groups? This toolkit is designed to be used by programme coordinators such as community workers, health professiona...
- A framework for analysis and practice: SDC's Systematic Approach to Rural Development (SARD)
- ( A. Witteveen;L. Ruedin / Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation , 2009)
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These days, development practitioners are able to draw on a number of analytical frameworks to assist in the design and implementation of poverty reduction programmes. In fact, it has become a...
