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- The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool: a new framework for measuring rural poverty
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The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) measures fundamental dimensions of rural poverty in order to support poverty-alleviation efforts in the less developed world. This article’s primary purpose is to introduce MPAT and describe its ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-07 21:01
- Good intentions are not enough: French NGO efforts at democracy building in Cameroon
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NGOs have traditionally had little scope to bring about political reform in developing countries. This was certainly true of French development NGOs (NGDOs) operating in Cameroon during the early post-colonial decades. This situation changed in 2002 whe ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-22 16:52
- Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes
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In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dra ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:37
- How to strengthen the development effectiveness of local purchase for food aid
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Taking the case of Burkina Faso, the paper analyses effects of local purchase on marginal producers. It argues that because of imports of food together with ‘distress sales’ on the part of the producers, perfect market conditions do not exis ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 13:06
- Addressing challenges of social assistance schemes: rights-based approach in Orissa, India
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The present article documents the programme strategy that has been used to address the challenges of social assistance schemes in Orissa, India. Key aspects of the strategy are: community mobilisation; use of mobile technology, web and media for communi ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-14 17:02
- Faith in forms: civil society evangelism and development in Tanzania
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This paper examines the position and role of religious organisations within a wider range of civil society organisations (CSOs) in two districts in Tanzania. We argue that where development agendas are externally generated and civil society is driven by ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:46
- Beyond access to water
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This paper looks beyond the dominant view of access to water – defined as coverage. It shows that, while the spread of improved water sources has widened, problems of affordability, quality, distribution, and reliability (“deep access” ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-11-27 12:46
- Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research
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Since March 2000, in partnership with the Women's Centre of Montreal and other units at Montreal universities, McGill's Centre for Developing-Area Studies has carried out an action-research programme on gender and human security issues in the context of w ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44
- Size matters: the need for human-scale economic institutions for development
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Current mainstream development thinking, with the exception of a few areas like microcredit, tends to favour size over substance. This article aims to challenge the belief that large-scale companies, markets, and institutions are the most effective means ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina
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This article discusses the privatisation of public services in Argentina in light of the severe crisis that afflicted the country between 1999 and 2002. An inadequate regulatory framework and the absence of effective regulatory agencies resulted in the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50
