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Current state of the art in impact assessment: with a special view on small enterprise development
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004This guide, published by SDC, aims at providing some best practice guidelines for those undertaking impact assessment with particular reference to the field of small enterprise development (SED).The guide:runs through some of the general issues concerning impact assessmentoutlines the evolution of various common methods and approaches developed and discussed particularly for SED andDocumentEconomic security for a better world
International Labour Organization, 2004This report is the first attempt to measure global economic security as perceived by ordinary people and was based on detailed household and workplace surveys covering over 48,000 workers and more than 10,000 workplaces worldwide. Economic security is measured on the basis of seven forms of work-related security including income, labour markets, employment, skills, work, jobs and representation.DocumentThe impact of foreign direct investment on poverty reduction: a survey of literature and a temporary finding from Indonesia
Center for Industrial Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, Indonesia, 2004This study focuses on the experience of Indonesia with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and all the economic reforms that have been undertaken to attract such investment.DocumentGrowth accelerations
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, this paper focuses on turning points in growth performance.DocumentReview of Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003This report details the first joint Nordic monitoring of the World Bank and IMF support to the PRSP process in seven countries: Bolivia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.DocumentOne step forward, two steps back: ownership, PRSPs and conditionality
World Vision, 2004This paper examines whether changes to lending processes by the Bretton Woods international financial institutions (IFIs) have succeeded in increasing the country 'ownership' and poverty focus of IFI-funded development programmes.Focussing primarily on the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the paper finds that there has been very little change in the IFIs’ poDocumentReality and analysis: personal and technical reflections on the working lives of six women
Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004A group of development analysts – researchers, activists, and practitioners - engaged in an unusual exercise in early 2004. They had a dialogue about labour market, trade and poverty issues, but they preceded the dialogue with exposure to the realities of the lives of six host women in Gujarat: Dohiben, Kalavatiben, Kamlaben, Kesarben, Leelaben and Ushaben.DocumentTracking gender equity under economic reforms: continuity and change in South Asia
International Development Research Centre, 2003This book develops a new framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’.DocumentPrivate sector involvement in policy making in a poverty-stricken liberal democracy
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2003Looks at the attempt by Zambia to operate a system of advocacy pluralism, involving the private sector and civil society in policy setting.