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Measuring pro-poor growth
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2001Can growth be said to be 'pro-poor?”. It is important to know how aggregate economic growth or contraction was distributed according to initial levels of living.DocumentThe process of formulating Poverty Reduction Strategies in Thailand
Thailand Development Research Institute, 2000Report from the first phase of a OECD/DAC sponsored project examining national strategies for sustainable development that: reviews the national development strategies since 1960 and the factors explaining the changes in strategies focussing on the growth-oriented strategies and the recent sustainable development strategiesreviews the processes of development, with special emphasis oDocumentPak Mun Dam Case Study
Thailand Development Research Institute, 2000As part of a two-year work programme to review the development effectiveness of large dams, The World Commission on Dams (WCD)commissioned TDRI to lead the case study on Pak Mun dam on the Mun river in Thailand's northeast region.DocumentConflict management in community-based natural resource projects: experiences from Fiji and Papua New Guinea
Overseas Development Institute, 2000This paper discusses the problem of non-violent conflicts and disputes as a constraint to sustainable natural resource management at the community level.The article finds that:third-party mediation should only be tried if viable customary approaches to conflict management have demonstrably failedthird-party mediation should only be tried if it is impracticable to try to strengthen tDocumentCorporate environmental responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: the potential and limits of voluntary initiatives
United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001Assesses the influences that encourage voluntary environmental initiatives, the types of action taken and the extent to which these may substitute for other forms of environmental regulation. It begins with a review of the motivations thought to encourage voluntary initiatives over other ways of promoting environmental improvement.DocumentChanges in poverty profile in China
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001Study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty changes in China in the period of 1978-95.DocumentChina County-Level Data on Population (1990 Census) and Agriculture, Keyed to 1:1M GIS Map
China Dimensions, 1999