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    Special evaluation study on small-scale freshwater rural aquaculture development for poverty reduction

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2004
    Linking aquaculture development approaches to viable livelihood opportunities for the rural poor remains a challenge. The poor face many constraints to participation in aquaculture, primarily due to a lack of access to capital and resources, vulnerability, and aversion to risks.
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    We were in fire, now we are in water: micro-credit and gender relations in rural Bangladesh

    Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004
    This study of 20 Saving and Credit Groups (SCGs) formed under the Agricultural Development and Intensification Project (ADIP) project in these four districts of Bangladesh was undertaken to assess the impact of micro–credit institutions on gender relations and women’s agency.
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    Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on 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, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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    Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

    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.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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    Drivers of escape and descent: changing household fortunes in rural Bangladesh

    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.
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    The impact of the International Food Policy Research Institute's Research Program on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor

    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 contribution to global knowledge about rural finance and food security.

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