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Gender budgeting analysis: a study in Maharashtra’s agriculture
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004This paper analyses the impact that state budgets of Maharashtra, India had on women in agriculture between 1998 to 2002.DocumentSeasonal labour migration in rural Nepal: a preliminary overview
Overseas Development Institute, 2003This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal.DocumentGirl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation: a comparative analysis, cases of Ghana, Ecuador, Philippines (vol. 2)
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004This study is a comparative analysis of gender sensitive assessments undertaken in the Ghana, Ecuador and the Philippines focusing on agriculture, domestic labour and prostitution. It analyses underlying factors of gender disparities in child labour and the consequences of those differences.DocumentCan an agricultural commodity be de-commodified, and if so, who is to gain?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001This paper stresses the imperative of directly enhancing agriculturally-based productive incomes of poor people, owing to the weaknesses of agricultural redistribution mechanisms both at a local and global level.The author uses the example of coffee farmers - generally located in the poorest countries - who have suffered badly in recent years, with the price of coffee beans at an all time low lDocumentMacroeconomic growth, sectoral quality of growth and poverty in developing countries: measure and application to Burkina Faso
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004This paper points out that in spite of economic growth, poverty is still prevalent in Burkina Faso. However, poverty rates vary depending on the poverty measure used. This paper discusses the impact of doing growth-inequality-poverty analysis with two types of data sources, such as National Accounts (NAM) versus Households Surveys (HS).DocumentReaching Millennium Goals: How well does agricultural productivity growth reduce poverty?
International Labour Organization, 2004In the context of only modest growth in agricultural output in recent years and current doubts over the achievability of the Millennium Goals on poverty reduction, this ILO paper makes a broad case for reinstating the role of agriculture in the internal poverty reduction strategies of developing countries.The paper sets out to show that agricultural growth is critical for poverty reduction bothDocumentIdentifying policy determinants of food security response and recovery in the SADC Region: the case of the 2002 food emergency
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2003Many southern African countries faced a serious food security crises in mid-2002.DocumentTrends and prospects for poverty reduction in rural India: context and options
Overseas Development Institute, 2003This paper lays out the macroeconomic and structural contexts for poverty reduction in India and discusses opportunities and constraints in relation to public investment and service provision that have a bearing on rural livelihoods.DocumentInherent conditions leading to economic vulnerability of small states of the pacific region and appropriate policy measures to strengthen their economic resilience for sustainable development, with particular emphasis on Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Institute of National Affairs, 2004Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Human Development Indicators are among the worst in the world and have been declining; it has had three Stuctural Adjustment Programmes between 1990 and 1997.