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ADB Review: Reaching the poorest
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003This review reports on aspects of trade, environmental and governance issues influencing the ADB activities within the broad context of poverty reduction.Coverage of these issues includes:Reducing poverty while maintaining macroeconomic stability—striking a balance in poor countries?Investigating the rising tide of violence in Asia’s cities—and what can be done to stop itidentifDocumentThe least developed countries report 2004: linking international trade with policy reduction
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004This report examines the relationship between trade and poverty in the less developed countries.DocumentBuilding a better world: a new global development strategy to end extreme poverty
Seattle Initiative for Global Development, 2004This paper outlines the critical role of U.S. leadership in eliminating extreme global poverty.DocumentRobbing the poor to pay the rich? How the United States keeps medicines from the world’s poorest
Oxfam, 2003Much suffering and death could be prevented if people had regular access to medicines, yet one-third of the world’s population does not. Many factors are responsible, including poverty, lack of finance, and poor health service infrastructure – but the high cost of new patented medicines is also a key factor.DocumentReality and analysis: personal and technical reflections on the working lives of six women
Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004A group of development analysts – researchers, activists, and practitioners - engaged in an unusual exercise in early 2004. They had a dialogue about labour market, trade and poverty issues, but they preceded the dialogue with exposure to the realities of the lives of six host women in Gujarat: Dohiben, Kalavatiben, Kamlaben, Kesarben, Leelaben and Ushaben.DocumentAssuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: a way forward from the 2020 Africa Conference
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This report is the draft outcome document of the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 held from 1-3 April 2004.DocumentThe environment, natural resources and HIV/AIDS
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003This short report looks at impacts of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the environment, with a focus on rural areas in Africa.DocumentThe currency premium and local-currency denominated debt costs in South Africa
OECD Development Centre, 2004This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia, which usually form an important element of debt cost in developing countries, in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.The paper argues that South Africa is one among very few emerging economies able to borrow long-term domesticallyDocumentA review of regional strategies addressing poverty
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003This paper reviews the main development strategies that have been pursued in Africa since the 1970s with the aim of stirring a debate that can be helpful in the search for new opportunities for poverty reduction in the region.The paper focuses its attention on the following broad policies:Structural adjustment policies: characterised by a keen interest on the part of internationaDocumentSweet like chocolate?: making the coffee and cocoa trade work for biodiversity and livelihoods
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2003This paper studies the cases of cocoa and coffee to assess whether their systems of production and trade meet the needs and aspirations of poor rural populations in the developing world, and minimize environmental damage. Findings include:Pages