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How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh
OECD Development Centre, 1998In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over the same period.DocumentLessons from Africa's Social Funds and Public Works and Employment Projects
Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998The concept of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous entities to implement small-scale projects more efficiently has spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.DocumentWater Challenge and Institutional Response: A Cross-Country Perspective
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999Concerns in the water sector, which once revolved around water development (and quantity), now revolve around water allocation (and quality).DocumentCreation of Land Markets in Transition Countries: Implications for the Institutions of Land Administration
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999Describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets.DocumentLand management programme in Tanzania
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaciDocumentHirschmanian themes of social learning and change
World Bank, 2001This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.DocumentDecentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999DocumentTargeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishPages