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- Men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?
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Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men's violence against women in the home, women's economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit prog ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- NGOs and the economic recovery of Afghanistan
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In the absence of a cohesive and controlling government in Afghanistan, NGOs have taken over much of the work in the economic and social arena, becoming, by proxy, the makers of policy and directors of practice. However the unpredictable yet growing power ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the US Military in Asia
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Author: Pollock Sturdevant, Sandra and Brenda Stolfuz Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:44
- What determines poverty transition? An investigation of women livestock farmers in Bangladesh
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This article evaluates poverty transition using self-assessment in a quasi-experimental framework. Data are drawn from a survey conducted in 2006 of 400 women who were the beneficiaries of a poverty-alleviation programme which involved longer-term inter ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-27 13:21
- Thinking about faith-based organisations in development: where have we got to and what next?
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This paper takes stock of current thinking about the nature and distinctiveness of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in development. Since the 1990s, public policy-linked scholarship from the USA has sought to define and categorise FBOs. More recently, m ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:44
- Performance-based Partnership Agreements for the reconstruction of the health system in Afghanistan
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Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. The reconstruction of the health system in Afghanistan is in its early stages, and donors have proposed Performance-based Partnership Agreements (PPA) through which to subcontract the delivery of he ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44
- Microfinance evangelism, `destitute women', and the hard selling of a new anti-poverty formula
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This article challenges the recent uncritical enthusiasm for the potential of micro-finance institutions to reduce poverty. It is argued that, although understanding about how to design anti-poverty financial intermediation has improved, the current campa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Exploring changes in the lives of the ultra-poor: an exploratory study
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This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC’s ‘Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme’ (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Microfinance and women's empowerment: A lesson from India
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This article describes an NGO project intended to empower scheduled caste women working in the silk-reeling industry in India through the provision of microfinance. It documents the impact that the project had on their economic and social status over a pe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Sustaining livelihoods in complex emergencies: experiences of Sri Lanka
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This article examines the role of context-specific factors that help to perpetuate the vulnerability of conflict-affected people. The discussion revolves around key concepts of household livelihood security, resilience building, income diversification, ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-02-25 17:46
