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    Pension provision: government failure around the world

    Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009
    This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that widespread difficulties with state pension schemes make it surprising that there is not more favourable acceptance of private provision for income in old age.
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    Migration for hard work: a reluctant livelihood strategy for poor households in West Bengal, India

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    What can in-depth and long term ethnographic research contribute to our understanding of why some households use migration as part of their livelihood strategy while others do not? How can ethnography enrich our understanding of the changing conditions for migration and people’s responses to these over time?
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    Rethinking agricultural policies for pro-poor growth

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    This paper presents key findings from a study of pro-poor agricultural growth (PPAG). Over the past few decades changes such as those surrounding ecology, liberalisation and HIV and AIDS have increased the challenges facing the rural poor. The authors outline a framework for new responses to these challenges in the context of PPAG.
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    From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008
    This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.
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    Understanding market-based livelihoods in a globalising world: combining approaches and methods

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005
    What happens when livelihoods analysis and value chain analysis are used in combination? How can research on livelihoods and markets produce policy-oriented information? This IIED paper argues that developing policies to enhance people’s livelihoods through market access requires understanding both livelihoods assets and strategies, and the nature of markets for particular goods.
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    The reality of trying to transform structures and processes: forestry in rural livelihoods

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    What are the key constraints to improving forest based livelihoods within the forest sector? What are the key relationships that provide the institutional context in which forest based livelihoods operate? The authors focus on a forestry project in Karnataka, India to illustrate the processes and problems of supporting livelihood change in the forestry institutional environment.
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    The peri-urban interface: a tale of two cities

    University College London, 2000
    What is the impact of city expansion on natural resources and livelihood strategies in surrounding peri-urban areas? What knowledge gaps can be identified when using the livelihoods approach to explore peri-urban poverty? What kind of opportunities arise from the meeting of urban and rural processes and how do these affect the livelihoods of the poor?
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    Sustainable livelihoods approaches in urban areas: general lessons, with illustrations from Indian cases

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    What differences in urban and rural poverty are revealed by Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs)? What opportunities exist for supporting livelihoods in urban areas? In the context of growing urban populations, this paper argues a pressing need for livelihoods approaches in urban settings.
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    Sustainable livelihoods and project design in India

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    How can the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) framework be used in project design? The author of this paper draws lessons from two project design experiences in Orissa and in Andhra Pradesh, India, where the SL principals and framework were incorporated and utilised in different ways.
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    Rights and livelihoods approaches: exploring policy dimensions

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    How do rights-based and livelihoods approaches to development complement each other? How can livelihoods-focused policy be built on a rights framework? This Overseas Development Institute (ODI) paper in the Natural Resource Perspectives (NRP) series examines the ways in which pro-poor rights-based work can support and enhance livelihoods-based development policy.

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