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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, Rural poverty in Indonesia

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    Approaches to rural poverty alleviation in developing Asia: role of water resources

    Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2008
    Focusing on water resources and irrigation, this paper documents a talk by Michael Lipton exploring approaches to poverty alleviation in developing Asia. The talk discusses the findings of a recent paper ‘Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia: poverty in irrigated agriculture - realities, issues, and options with guidelines’.
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    Land suitability evaluation with a case map of Aceh Barat district

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2007
    This booklet was prepared after the December 2004 tsunami caused serious damage to agricultural land, soils and vegetation along the coastal areas of Aceh, Indonesia. The booklet is a guideline for the district government of Aceh Barat for spatial lay-outing of tree crops suitable for its coastal areas.
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    Towards wellbeing in forest communities: a sourcebook for local government

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    Local governments have an important role to play in enhancing the wellbeing of forest communities, yet often lack the capacity to understand and address local needs.
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    Reducing unemployment in Indonesia: results from a growth-employment elasticity model

    SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2007
    The authors of this paper develop a new model to examine the impact of different sectors and locations of economic growth on urban, rural, and national employment using a provincial level panel dataset. A number of conclusions are presented, including: 
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    Pathways out of poverty during an economic crisis: an empirical assessment of rural Indonesia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. This paper reports on the pathways out of poverty in Indonesia during a period of economic and political turmoil.
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    Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

    Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
    This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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    Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

    Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005
    This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.