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The political economy of international development and pro-poor livestock policies: a comparative assessment
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004This 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.DocumentAnti poverty or anti poor?: the Millennium Development Goals and the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger
Focus on the Global South, 2003Following an Asian-Pacific regional forum on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, this dossier contains the discussion paper and the statement that form the output of the Forum as well as a compilation of relevant analyses and experience contributed by some of the participants as well as others in the regional civil society.DocumentFighting corruption: what role for civil society? : the experience of the OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004This report takes stock of the OECD’s thirteen years of experience working with civil society to fight corruption.DocumentTurning off the taps: donor conditionality and water privatisation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ActionAid International, 2004This paper examines the long-standing trend of international aid donors to demand that recipient countries privatise basic services and liberalise economies. These demands have been enforced through donor conditionality.DocumentFitting the pieces together: a composite view of government’s strategy to assist the unemployed in South Africa 1994 - 2004
Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004The objective of this paper is to construct an overview of the South African government’s strategy to assist the unemployed and to examine what shifts and changes this strategy reveals over time.DocumentUp in smoke
New Economics Foundation, 2004This report commissioned by leading environmental and development organisations, examines the impact of climate change on global development, specifically the Millennium Development Goals. A number of case studies presented deal with the repercussions of climate change on food production, water supplies, public health and livelihoods.DocumentImpacts of Community Health Insurance Schemes on Health Care Provision in Rural Tanzania
Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2004This study examines community health funds (CHF) in Tanzania to evaluate the role of community health funds in lowering the barriers to access health care. The authors found that protection by the community schemes drastically increases participants’ demand for health care.DocumentEconomic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2004
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004This report proposes that despite economic growth in the Asia and Pacific region in 2003, driven largely by intraregional trade and domestic demand, there remain many obstacles to poverty reduction in the area. The authors examine various countries' poverty reduction strategies within the Asia and Pacific region, in light of meeting the Millennium Development Goals.DocumentAnnual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization
Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.