Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty in Zimbabwe

Showing 21-30 of 64 results

Pages

  • Organisation

    Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA)

    ITOCA is aimed at providing, promoting and building capacity for scientists, researchers and information professionals on the use of electronic resources in Sub Sahara Africa (SSA).
  • Document

    Trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007
    Conventional 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.
  • Document

    Humanitarian action in urban contexts

    Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2006
    This edition of Humanitarian Exchange includes various articles by different authors discussing humanitarian action in urban contexts and a range of general policy and practice articles.The contributors explore issues relating to natural disasters in urban contexts, with articles on responding to Tropical Storm Jean in Haiti, the relationship between climate change and disaster risk in urban en
  • Document

    Inequality aversion and stochastic decision-making: experimental evidence from Zimbabwean villages after land reform

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006
    Land reform has come to dictate a great deal more than simple distribution in many African countries.
  • Document

    Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

    Journal of Development Studies, 2006
    This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
  • Document

    Helping others, helping yourself

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In African societies, poor people help each other. Self-help has a long tradition in southern African culture. But development processes often overlook indigenous philanthropy. How and why do poor people give each other support?
  • Document

    Education access and retention for educationally marginalised children: innovations in social protection

    Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005
    This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.
  • Document

    Active but ignored: women and irrigation in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The productivity of irrigated smallholder agriculture in Africa is poor. Failure to consult women can be a major reason for poor results. To fulfil the potential of irrigated production, both women and men must contribute to designing and developing small-scale systems that are easy to use.
  • Document

    Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
  • Document

    Social protection mechanisms in southern Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006
    Social protection is a relatively new concept in southern Africa. Regular, predictable and guaranteed transfers to the vulnerable in most countries have yet to be integrated into existing policies safeguarding lives following livelihood shocks such as drought and conflict.

Pages