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Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: from prejudice to policy reform
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999Communities of present-day or former hunter-gatherers live in scattered communities across the world, although their precise numbers and status are very uncertain. Their often marginalised status and ethnolinguistic diversity has made it hard to articulate their case for land rights outside Australia and North America.DocumentMapping Russian Cyberspace: Perspectives on democracy and the net
Information Technologies and Social Development Project, UNRISD, 1998Presents a contextualized portrait of the Russian Net—and more broadly, Russian Cyberspace—by mapping out its present contours as well as its complex origins. Aims to predict future social impactsExplores the Russian Net by mapping physical dimensions and technological characteristics: who the Net reaches and how.DocumentAccess to Land in Rural India
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.DocumentGovernance and Economic Performance: A Survey
Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1999Presents a framework for analyzing the determinants and effects of public governance and a survey of recent theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to developing and transition countries.DocumentAid and Reform in Africa
Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.DocumentGlobal Environment Outlook 2000 (GEO 2), UNEP
Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 1999Analyses both global and regional issues: key finding is that the continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation. The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option..DocumentPolitics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFIDPolicy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the poorStates create and shape the political opportunities for the poorThere is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poorThere is a wide range of possibDocumentWhat 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.DocumentCountry Gender Profile: South Africa
Women'sNet [South Africa], 1999Explores the dynamics of gender relations and the challenge of transforming gender inequalities in the broader economic and political context of South Africa’s transition to democracy and re-integration into the global economy.DocumentAre Poverty Reduction and Other 21st Century Social Goals Attainable?
PovertyNet, World Bank, 1998Assesses empirically how attainable are two of the goals set by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee for the year 2015-halving the incidence of poverty and reducing child mortality by two-thirds.Finds that the evidence is mixed. Some countries appear likely to achieve the poverty goal, while others do not.Pages