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The Social Consequences of the East Asian Financial Crisis
Social Crisis in East Asia, World Bank, 1998What began as a currency crisis in Thailand has evolved into a social crisis across the region and beyond. Within East Asia it was initially hoped that the crisis would involve a sharp contraction and sharp recovery—a "V"-shaped response to a shock, as occurred in Mexico after the 1994/95 currency crisis.DocumentUNDP Poverty report 1998: Overcoming Human Poverty [summary]
Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998Report notes that around one third of people in developing countries continue to live in ‘income poverty’ — earning less than $1 per day. But it emphasizes the importance of looking beyond income to address human poverty — the lack of essential human capabilities such as being literate, healthy and adequately nourished.DocumentThe UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond
Overseas Development Institute, 1998In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.DocumentCosts of Adolescent Childbearing: A Review of Evidence from Chile, Barbados, Guatemala and Mexico
1998The region is plagued by persistent poverty. Does early childbearing perpetuate it? What are the social and economic impacts of adolescent childbearing on mothers and children?DocumentFashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.DocumentWhat can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
Overseas Development Institute, 1999A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action.DocumentBalancing sweatshop ethics and economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, 1999The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations.DocumentAn Asset-Based Approach to the Analysis of Poverty in Latin America [plus case studies]
Economic Research and Development Policy in Latin America, IADB Research Department, 1999Project argues that poverty in Latin America (or at least the ‘excess poverty’ given the level of income in the region), is a problem caused mainly by high inequality. But income inequality in the region is, to a large extent, a reflection of a very skewed distribution of income-earning assets, human capital being the most important.DocumentGender and public social spending: disaggregating benefit incidence
Gendernet, World Bank, 1999Describes how the gender dimension of public spending on health and education can be captured in part through benefit incidence analysis.It contains two basic messages: gender disaggregations are important in their own right, since they highlight gender differences in benefit incidence which are of policy concernthese gender differences are also important in understanding other mattDocumentImpact of the Asia crisis on children: Issues for social safety nets
Australian Agency for International Development, 1999Report is based on a survey carried out in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand on the impact of the Asia crisis on children.Pages