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- Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?
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Gender inequality is now widely acknowledged as an important factor in the spread and entrenchment of poverty. This article examines the World Development Report 2000/01 as the World Bank’s blueprint for addressing poverty in the twenty-first century alon ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Physically disabled women's creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand
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The Village Development Fund (VDF) is used in Thailand to empower the rural poor, especially women living with disabilities. This article investigates the problems of gaining access to credit faced by physically disabled women in rural Thailand. In-dept ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 11:53
- Women in water management: the need for local planning
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The paper notes that in India, even when a village or household level survey is carried out for water-resource development, the usual standards of data collection are applied, and women's central importance in water use is thus not reflected. However, wom ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- 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
- Feminise our forests: consultation on the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
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Citing the case of the Self Employed Women's Association's (SEWA) experience in nine districts of Gujarat, India, an argument is presented for returning almost the entire forestry sector to the women through their cooperatives of groups. Such an argument ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- We Are The Original People: The Story of a Development Project in an Adivasi (Tribal) Village in South Gujarat, India
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Author: Clarke, Marieke Issue: Volume 3, Num ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:44
- Agricultural co-operatives in Gujarat, India: agents of equity or differentiation?
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Agricultural co-operatives have been promoted in India's economic development programme as a means of encouraging large-scale agricultural production while enhancing community Cupertino and equity. Focusing on sugar co-operatives in Gujarat state of weste ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- A rural support programme exit strategy: women filling vacated spaces and excelling in community development
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Rural support programmes in Pakistan are major players in rural development, with significant outreach. Owing to funding constraints, they are currently exploring an exit strategy whereby they facilitate the formation of multi-tier local support organis ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-03-30 16:05
- Women entrepreneurs in the Bangladeshi restaurant business
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The paper discusses the Restaurant Programme started for women in 1991 by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). A restaurant may be opened under individual ownership with a maximum loan of Taka 6500, after which a current account for the indi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Institutional evolution and the impact of training and communication in Joint Forest Management
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In 1999, with a view to strengthening the JFM arrangement, the Gujarat State Forest Department, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation, initiated a nodal agency called the JFM cell. Its mandate is to assist in strengthening and expanding JFM in Guj ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
