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id21 classic: Poverty and famines
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007‘Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.’ So begins Professor Amartya Sen’s ground-breaking study on famine published in 1981.DocumentSmall change for a high price: conditional debt relief in Mali
European Network on Debt and Development, 2007In the last three years, Mali’s debt stock has been reduced significantly as a result of the country’s participation in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and later on the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).DocumentDesigning social funds for government decentralisation
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Social funds and decentralised government are two distinct phenomena which are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. The burning question is: can social funds, which have emerged in most countries as a highly centralised model, adapt to decentralised environments?DocumentTrends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007Conventional approaches to measuring poverty and inequality that use money-metric data overlook social aspects of poverty. This paper uses the multidimensional, asset index, approach to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.DocumentIdioma materno primero: El derecho de los niños de aprender en sus propios idiomas
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Educación es poder y la lengua es la clave para tener acceso a ese poder. A un niño que le va bien en la escuela y desarrolla autoestima y orgullo, tendrá mejores posibilidades de empleo, y es más probable que se de cuenta y utilice todo su potencial.DocumentMinding the gaps: integrating poverty reduction strategies and budgets for domestic accountability
World Bank, 2007This study examines what challenges have arisen in countries where efforts have been made to integrate poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) with national budgets. It argues that both PRSs and national budgets offer scope for enhanced domestic accountability, but that fractures in planning and budgeting systems pose obstacles for donors and national governments.DocumentLa langue maternelle d’abord: Le droit des enfants à apprendre dans leurs propres langues
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007L’Éducation est un pouvoir et la langue est la clé pour accéder à ce pouvoir. Un enfant qui réussit à l’école et qui développe de l’estime de soi et de la fierté aura de meilleures possibilités d’emploi et sera plus à même de réaliser son potentiel.DocumentFamily first: land transfer rights in West Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Land tenure can help to increase agricultural productivity and growth, and also ensure social harmony and good governance. However, debate continues over which type of tenure should be promoted and how land tenure should be regulated.DocumentPricing farmers out of cotton: the costs of World Bank reforms in Mali
Oxfam, 2007This paper argues that recent changes to the cotton price-setting mechanism in Mali promoted by the World Bank have wider repercussions for the Malian economy and are likely to jeopardise the existing poverty-reduction strategy. Falling prices are increasing poverty in cotton-growing areas and worsening food insecurity and indebtedness.DocumentSubsidies and regulatory reform in West African cotton: what are the development stakes?
Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2007West Africa has acheived some success in making the case in international negotiations over the reform of the cotton market international community.Pages