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Access to Land in Rural India
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.DocumentAppraising Workfare
World Bank Research Observer, 1999Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a crisis. This article offers some simple analytical tools that can be used to rapidly appraise the cost-effectiveness of an existing workfare operation as a basis for deciding whether the program should be expanded.DocumentWhat can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
Overseas Development Institute, 1999A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action.DocumentIntellectual property rights and globalization: implications for developing countries
Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999Reviews the implications of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on the national implemention of the TRIPS agreement, technological development, plant variety protection, geopgraphical indications, and biological diversity and the associated indigenous knowledge.DocumentEngendering development
Gendernet, World Bank, 2000Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.DocumentReaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.DocumentAfrican Journals Online (AJOL)
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as review papers.DocumentGender and Household Food Security: A Lost Opportunity
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000This presentation deals with the way in which gender impacts food security issues in developing countries.DocumentGlobal poverty report 2000
African Development Bank, 2000This report was prepared for the G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit Meeting 2000 by a consortium of multilateral finance organizations including African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank.The report focuses on three main topics:global poverty conditions and trendsregional poverty trDocumentCan social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001This study examined the design and impacts of cash transfer programmes in three southern Africa countries. Design choices such as targeting, transfer levels and transfer mode (cash or food) require sensitivity by policy-makers and participation by intended beneficiaries.Pages