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Living in the background: home-based women workers and poverty persistence
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007This paper examines the relationship between home-based work and persistent poverty in certain parts of South and South East Asia. The author argues that an expanded conception of social protection is needed if poverty prevention initiatives are to be effective in the case of home-based women workers.DocumentThe involvement and impact of road crashes on the poor: Bangladesh and India case studies
Global Road Safety Partnership, 2004This paper published by the Global Road Safety Partnership studies the effects that fatal and serious road crashes have on low income households in Bangladesh and Bangalore, India. The study is based on household surveys in urban and rural areas.DocumentSupporting non-state providers of sanitation services
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Improving sanitation services to poor people is rarely a priority for public service investment. Legal and regulatory shortcomings continue to hinder the provision of sanitation to both informal settlements and rural communities.DocumentInterrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience
Asian Development Bank, 2007This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.DocumentThe politics of what works in tackling chronic poverty
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007This policy brief looks at the role that politics plays in shaping efforts towards poverty reduction.DocumentWomen’s literacy training using ICTs
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007About 18 percent of adults worldwide remain illiterate, the majority of them women and mostly from the poor sectors of society. How common is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for women’s literacy training and what strategies can help ensure a project is successful?DocumentExplaining the incidence of catastrophic expenditures on health care: comparative evidence from Asia
Equitap, 2005Heavy reliance on out of pocket (OOP) financing of health care in most developing countries leaves households exposed to the risks of unforeseen medical expenditures.DocumentGlobal Corruption Report 2007
Transparency International, 2007This year’s report concentrates on judicial systems and warns that corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial. The report provides comparative analysis of judicial corruption based on 32 country reports and providesDocumentAdvocating for Abortion Access: Eleven Country Studies
Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001What factors influence a country's legal position on abortion? This publication isDocumentDebating shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas: farmers’ innovations as lessons for policy
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2006Hundreds of millions of people in Asia are dependent on shifting cultivation, yet the practice has tended to be seen in a negative light and discouraged by policy makers. This document challenges prevailing assumptions, arguing that shifting cultivation – if properly practised – is actually a ‘good practice’ system for productively using hilPages
