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Diversification and livelihood options: a study of two villages in Andhra Pradesh, India, 1975–2001
Overseas Development Institute, 2002This paper reports on findings of research that has taken place in Andhra Pradesh, namely a re-survey of two villages, Aurepalle and Dokur, in the Andhra Pradesh district of Mahbubnagar.DocumentOf flying geeks and o-rings: locating software and IT services in India's economic development
OECD Development Centre, 2003This paper offers an analytical framework for understanding the evolution of India’s software industry and its place in the broader economy.DocumentHands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.DocumentNGOs and the Internet in Nepal
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 2003The number of registered NGOs in Nepal has skyrocketed in the last ten years, growing in number from 220 in 1990 to somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 today. At the same time, the Internet and the use of e-mail has increased rapidly.DocumentFailing the challenge: the other Shell report 2002
Friends of the Earth, 2003This campaign document presents itself as an alternative to Shell's own sustainability report.DocumentMainstreaming adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (LDCs)
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy priority in the internationalDocumentCommunities facing the HIV/AIDS challenge: from crisis to opportunity, from community vulnerability to community resilience
HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 2002This paper discusses 'community resilience' to HIV/AIDS and ways of promoting it.DocumentMeasuring child poverty and health: a new international study
Young Lives, 2002This working paper introduces the research plan of an international cohort study on child poverty and health.The study will follow up children born into poverty (plus a small number of non-poor for comparative purposes) in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Peru, and the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.DocumentThe IMF-World Bank plan for Sri Lanka: will it help or hinder South Asian success?
Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2003Paper critical of the PRSP process in Sri Lanka arguing that the draft document as it stands could lead to a reversal of Sri Lanka’s impressive record on economic growth and social development and that the process through which the PRSP was drafted and approved raises serious questions about the opportunities for public input.In three areas in particular - privatization, land law reform, and laDocumentNijera Shikhi and adult literacy
Eldis Education Resource Guide, 2003This report looks at the efficiency and effectiveness of Nijera Shikhi’s (a people's literacy movement in Bangladesh) activities in adult literacy on:learners five years after the completion of their course in the Tarash area where it operated more as a People’s Movement, andlearners about a year after the completing of their course in the Barisal area where it operated more as an NGOPages
