This study intends to understand the magnitude and nature of indebtedness among rural
poor households in Kerala. The study d analyses
the role played by various sources in meeting the credit requir...
by Aswathi Rebecca Asok | On 08 Mar 2021 Prakriti Karyashala, launched in 2012 through the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), to respond to the rising needs of rural communities to respond to ecological change. It trains a cadre of f...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 20 Nov 2020 Bangladesh might overtake India this year by per capita income in nominal dollars, but it is not yet close to becoming South Asia's economic powerhouse anytime soon.
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 Oct 2020 Over 90,000 women, the ASHA workers at the community level, are at the centre of the public health system especially in the rural areas have been working non-stop during this pandemic. But they are no...
by | On 22 May 2020 Policymakers across the developing world are facing the need to make rapid decisions on their COVID-19
response with little available data or guidance. Policies that help deal with the economic cri...
by Jonathan Leape | On 18 May 2020 The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI)-—periodic and uncon- ditional cash payments to all citizens—has gained renewed attention amid growing concerns about technological unemployment in advanced e...
by | On 28 Mar 2019 This paper examines the dimension of inequality since our earlier work on poverty and deprivation suggest that social inequality seems to overwhelm all other inequalities in a whole range of indicator...
by K.P. Kannan | On 31 Jan 2019 In various Asian countries, international trade has raised productivity, lowered mark ups through import competition (while increasing them through cheaper inputs that can be imported), raised wages,...
by Devashish Mitra | On 22 Jan 2019 An informal but informed Indian professional on assignment in Dhaka sends this engaging commentary on the general elections in Bangladesh.
by Srikanth S | On 05 Jan 2019 Solar lanterns are promoted across rural sub-Saharan Africa to improve both lighting in homes and educational outcomes. It undertakes a randomized controlled trial in Zimba District, Zambia, to evalua...
by Ognen Stojanovski | On 03 Jan 2019 This paper exploits the recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a la...
by Mark M. Pitt | On 22 Nov 2018 This paper employs a multidimensional approach to gauge the degree of regional integration and analyze impact on growth, inequality, and poverty. It constructs a multidimensional regional integration...
by Cyn-Young Park | On 26 Oct 2018 Lack of access to reliable information on environmental exposure limits opportunities for risk avoiding behavior, particularly in developing countries. Private markets could potentially play a role in...
by Ricardo Maertens | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper discusses public and private sector financing of infrastructure, and examines the factors driving infrastructure investment in this subregion. Using a panel of three large South Asian count...
by Shikha Jha | On 26 Sep 2018 This paper examines how women’s participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women’s rights to an...
by Harold Glenn A. Valera | On 26 Sep 2018 This Policy Note revisits the country’s efforts to achieve gender equality focusing on the rural and agriculture sector. It likewise recommends measures to enrich the policy narratives on women in the...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 30 Aug 2018 The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in the Philippine Development Plan, and the worldwide commitment toward the Sustainab...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 27 Aug 2018 This paper develops a framework identifying channels through which economic gains can be derived from PPP arrangement. The framework helps derive an empirically tractable specification that examines h...
by Minsoo Lee | On 11 Aug 2018 The policy brief aims to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on food security, ASEAN established a rice reserve on 4 October 1979. The rice reserve was developed to alleviate poverty and to eradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Aug 2018 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 2018 The study aims to assess the sustainable livelihood program (SLP) implementation processes based on recent policy enhancements and indicators of program success. The analysis is based on focus group d...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 05 Jul 2018 This paper discusses the status of financial inclusion, education, and literacy in Azerbaijan as well as measures to foster the development of SMEs, which currently have inadequate access to financial...
by Gubad Ibadoghlu | On 07 Jun 2018 Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of ph...
by Armen Nurbekyan | On 07 Jun 2018 Economic burden to households due to out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) is large in many Asian
countries. Though studies suggest increasing household poverty due to high OOPE in developing countries, s...
by Bidhubhusan Mahapatra | On 29 May 2018 This
comprehensive paper attempts to
critically evaluate the initiatives taken by India through the
Reserve Bank of India in achieving financial inclusion and the efforts made...
by | On 28 May 2018 Biofuels are derived from renewable bio
-
mass resources and, therefore,
provide a strategic advantage to promote sustainable development and to
supplement conventional...
by Government of India GOI | On 17 May 2018 This paper studies the relationship between rural wage growth and inflation in
India to assess the risk of a wage
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price spiral to the inflation trajectory.
The
results...
by Sujata Kundu | On 14 May 2018 This paper is an evidence review of
how intersecting forms of inequalities influence women’s
political participation and representation at the local level in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
The r...
by | On 11 May 2018 The focus in this paper is on growth, inequality and poverty, particularly in relation to urbanization. The analysis is pursued at three levels of disaggregation: states, districts and the million-plu...
by Arup Mitra | On 02 May 2018 This paper tries to summarise the current state of knowledge about chronic poverty in
India and identify the agenda for further research. An ove
rview of the trends in incidence
of...
by | On 12 Apr 2018 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 The paper says that average saving rate over 1990-91 to 1995-96 has been only 14.7 percent of GDP.
by Sarfraz Qureshi | On 30 Mar 2018 The report maps the current status of research in the area of Sport for Development (SfD). This consists of a ‘snapshot’ of research completed since 2005, an inventory of research planned or in progre...
by Orla Cronin | On 30 Mar 2018 The report maps the current status of research in the area of Sport for Development (SfD). This consists of a ‘snapshot’ of research completed since 2005, an inventory of research planned or in progre...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs
and thereby increasing the gains from trade. Although the use of trade facilitation measures
for tackling tr...
by Sanjana Joshi | On 28 Mar 2018 The National Health Mission (NHM) encompasses two sub-missions, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM).
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 23 Mar 2018 In contrast with historical precedent, urbanization across the Global South is associated with increasing levels
of urban poverty. These trends engender unique challenges for practitioners and schola...
by Emily Rains | On 21 Mar 2018 With a population nearing 60 million, half of which occupies the two major cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, Sindh is the only province with a rural population in the minority. Research conducted by PI...
by Salman Rashid | On 21 Mar 2018 The paper says that poverty alleviation is the most persistent challenge facing Pakistan since its inception.
by Rashida Haq | On 21 Mar 2018 The paper says that the gender has been largely ignored at the theoretical, empirical and policy design levels, thereby perpetuating gender biases in the actual working of economies, promoting gender...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 20 Mar 2018 This paper introduces a new index of financial inclusion for 151 economies using principal component
analysis to compute weights for aggregating nine indicators of access, availability, and usage. It...
by Rogelio V. Mercado, Jr. | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper examines the impact of conditional fiscal transfers on public employment across gender in India taking the case of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Th...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 19 Mar 2018 The paper aims at examining impact of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) on higher education and to identifying major impediments that
have resulted in slow penetration of ICTs in high...
by Kaushalesh Lal | On 19 Mar 2018 In the evening of February 22, 2018, A 30 year old man named Madhu, a tribal from Attappadi, Kerala was severely beaten up by the mob who accused him of stealing food items which included rice. Althou...
by Aarti Salve | On 10 Mar 2018 In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance activities in the state to a complete halt and causing a nation-wide shock to the li...
by Emily Breza | On 10 Mar 2018 This paper says that micro finance is an emerging reality in contemporary development discourse and has come to occupy a significant place in financial intermediation in India.
by M.A. Oommen | On 27 Feb 2018 This paper is a critique of this experiment to draw lessons for the other Indian states (which still lag way behind Kerala) and for Kerala State itself to put decentralization and democratic practices...
by M.A. Oommen | On 16 Feb 2018 This paper points at the missing link between decentralization and local development in so many countries whose decentralization reforms are driven by political rather than developmental goals.
by Leena Avonius | On 07 Feb 2018 This paper analyses the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change
in rural India, focusing especially on variations across regions and shifts over time during the
past two...
by Bina Agarwal | On 05 Feb 2018 This paper is concerned with the way macro-economic strategies can affect the
incidence of poverty, especially among women, and also with the effectiveness of
various forms of government interventio...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 05 Feb 2018 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 most of the major policy measures promised by this government to the Indian
farmers have not seen the light of the day. No social security measures have been taken for
farmers above the age of 60 or...
by ASHA Kisan Swaraj Alliance | On 31 Jan 2018 A Bill further to amend the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
This Act may be ca...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 09 Jan 2018 This paper tries to lay bare the intertwined histories of rehabilitation of the refugees from East Pakistan and the development of the city of Calcutta in the initial decades after the partition of Br...
by | On 02 Jan 2018 This paper looks at the case where India contested the tariff concessions granted by the members of the European Communities (EC) to twelve developing countries under its Generalised System of Prefere...
by M. Taslim | On 29 Dec 2017 India’s agricultural research and extension system has grown tremendously to meet the country’s rapid change in research and development (R&D) needs over the past half century. Major activities in thi...
by | On 27 Dec 2017 This study constructs a new dependency ratio measure by taking into account the consumption needs of the young and elderly people, and the productivity of middle-aged people. Different from the way th...
by Xuehui Han | On 21 Dec 2017 In recent years, South Asia has received growing attention as a region that is integrating successfully into the global economy. To maximize the benefits in terms of faster growth and poverty reductio...
by Prabir De | On 19 Dec 2017 Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are increasingly facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that...
by James Browne | On 15 Dec 2017 The paper provides an overview of the methodologies used by the Indian
Planning Commission in the past 30 years. Using the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality...
by | On 13 Dec 2017 The report says that despite the government’s various poverty reduction and social protection programs, poverty remains a social problem the country needs to hurdle.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 13 Dec 2017 The study says that the policymakers should see merit in examining whether federalism can indeed
address the sociopolitical and economic problems that hamper the country’s growth.
by PIDS Information Staff | On 11 Dec 2017 This paper presents and analyzes the key findings from a comprehensive review of value chain-related studies on the commodities and horticulture sectors, focusing on what this literature reveals about...
by Man-Kwun Chan | On 06 Dec 2017 MGNREGA rural developmental works undertaken since February 2006 in Sikkim have achieved a sustainable characteristic by adopting an environment friendly approach. A range of works on water, soil and...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 05 Dec 2017 The results of this study indicate that climate change acts in combination with many other socioeconomic determinants of migration.
by Fahad Saeed | On 04 Dec 2017 This paper narrates about the challenge of meeting energy demand is likely to get more complex, as it is growing to keep pace with the population growth and expanding economy.
by Muhammad Iftikhar | On 01 Dec 2017 In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in history, in an attempt to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KP...
by Achmad Tohari | On 20 Nov 2017 This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural a...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 The study analyzes the impact of these programmes over a specific period of six years.
by Junaid Zahid | On 17 Nov 2017 A look into the effect of an e-Governance initiative in Bangladesh is on efficiency in the
public sector. The electronic Filing (e-Filing) system was introduced to all the Deputy Commissioners'
(DC)...
by Wahid Abdallah | On 15 Nov 2017 Whether social transfers should be targeted or universal is an unsolved debate that is particularly relevant for the implementation of social protection schemes in developing countries. While the limi...
by | On 15 Nov 2017 One of the most commonly held beliefs in the area of child labour, especially in an under-developed economy’s like India, is that it exists because parents who are unable to make ends meet put their c...
by | On 10 Nov 2017 Unconditional basic income, or a job guarantee by government as employer-of-last-resort, are usually discussed as alternative policies, though the first does not provide the benefits of an earned inco...
by Felix FitzRoy | On 08 Nov 2017 This paper attempts to address the impact of the MGNREGA on the rural agricultural sector, focusing on cropping patterns, irrigated area, crop yields, wages and rural employment. The analysis is based...
by Deepak Varshney | On 06 Nov 2017 The report says that conflicts, violence and natural disasters are among the root causes of migration and forced displacement.
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Oct 2017 The paper aims to consider potential benefits of federalism to the Philippines within the context of two major development constraints, namely, weak economic growth and poverty.
by Romulo Miral Jr | On 03 Oct 2017 This Policy Note addresses this lack of a measure of chronic and transient poverty in the Philippines.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 29 Sep 2017 The empirical context of our study is Indonesia, a country with a long tradition of regulating consumer energy prices and a recent change in subsidy policies, facilitated by dramatically falling oil p...
by Sebastian Renner | On 29 Sep 2017 This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance.
by Luc Christiaensen | On 27 Sep 2017 This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets.
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Sep 2017 The issue of old-age income security in India assumes significance in view of the expected rise in the elderly population in the years to come, problems of poverty and vulnerability among them and the...
by D Rajasekhar | On 14 Sep 2017 The World Health Organization considered that its mission demanded it
should play a part in this debate, with the objective of illuminating how intellectual property rights might affect public health...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 14 Sep 2017 Urban expansion in India over the last few decades has placed cities in a challenging situation with limited infrastructure facilities affecting the quality of life of people who live in low income se...
by Manasi S | On 13 Sep 2017 Shifting cultivation remains the main source of employment for large sections of the rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood in the hill areas of Manipur. Its inputs continue to be...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 12 Sep 2017 This Policy Note analyzes the role of wage and attitudes toward gender roles within the family in determining the time allocated to housework.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 08 Sep 2017 Natural disasters, together with other shocks, have contributed to the vulnerability of both poor and nonpoor Filipino households to poverty.
by Christian D. Mina | On 07 Sep 2017 The paper narrates that the weather is an integral part of our life and weather shocks can have severe implications on income and on household consumption.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 06 Sep 2017 This paper finds that deviation of rainfall from its normal values and other key variables such as education, employment, assets, and armed conflict affect chronic food poverty.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 05 Sep 2017 The report says that the urban poor constitutes nearly one-fourth of India’s urban population and is growing at three times of the national population growth rate.
by Akash Acharya | On 22 Aug 2017 The report narrates that ensure access to social protection measures for the poor and the vulnerable.
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 16 Aug 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) released an audit report on the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programme under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) on July 21, 2017. The Re...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 Discussions around the post-2015 development goals
and the proposed ‘leave no-one behind’ principle have
revived global interest in inequality and the role of social
protection in promoting social...
by | On 04 Aug 2017 The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Globally 54 percent population lives in urban areas today (UN 2014). Although Asia is still relatively more rural than the Americas and the Europe, it is...
by Tanuka Endow | On 02 Aug 2017 Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to
minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question the basic Todaro-type
model of rural-urban migr...
by Luc Christiaensen | On 01 Aug 2017 This approach was chosen to understand the consequences of climate risks as well as the adaptation measures needed to cope with adverse impacts in order to ensure the resilience of all actors involved...
by Samavia Batool | On 01 Aug 2017 For the 2017 G20, the German government has prioritized commitments to reducing the male and female employment gap by 25 percent by 2025, and increasing the quality of women’s employment. Investing in...
by John Ruthrauff | On 31 Jul 2017 This paper purports to understand whether voting along narrow parochial lines in socially and ethnically fragmented societies has measurable gains. Using data from rural India, we establish that ident...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 31 Jul 2017 Many poverty alleviation programs aiming to enhance nutrition include behavior change
communication (BCC). This study uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to assess the
impacts of BCC, focusing on...
by Berber Kramer | On 31 Jul 2017 The seventh goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dedicated to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. While energy was implicit in the Mi...
by Hannah Goozee | On 28 Jul 2017 his series of project publications aims to capture the tools, methods, and processes developed under the EC and ILO joint project entitled “Strengthening the
Impact on Employment of Sector and Trade...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 28 Jul 2017 This paper analyse data from the Nepal Living Standard Survey for the year 2010/11 to determine the extent to which these programs have reached the poor. The Government of Nepal has been providing fin...
by Dipendra Bhattarai | On 28 Jul 2017 The present paper is an attempt to conduct a valuation of the three most important exhaustible natural resources, viz., natural gas, coal and hard rock, via
the System of Environmental-Economic Accou...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 27 Jul 2017 Despite rapid progress of the financial sector in Bangladesh, there are concerns that banks have not been able to include a
vast segment of the population, especially the underprivileged sections and...
by Bilkis Sultana | On 26 Jul 2017 Rural poverty continues to be a scourge in India, affecting tens of millions of households despite years of strong economic growth for the country overall. In 2005, the government of India created the...
by Government of India & Employment | On 26 Jul 2017 The Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement Project sought to provide basic services of water supply, sanitation, and garbage collection and disposal in four cities in Madhya Pradesh, India.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jul 2017 The report narrates that in Bangladesh, women-owned SMEs have different characteristics when compared with men-owned SMEs and tend to face specific challenges and obstacles.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 The project developed a gender, caste, and ethnicity (GCE) strategy that sought to ensure the participation of women and ethnic minorities in decision-making processes, as well as their increased repr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 This report presents a framework for sustainable energy access planning that planners and policy makers can use to design cost-effective clean energy supply systems that both poor and nonpoor can sust...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 This annual publication showcases the results of knowledge management initiatives of the East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 This study also describes trade facilitation projects that promote development through deepening regional cooperation and integration.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This report provides support to the Maldivian government in formulating its high-priority policies by identifying the critical constraints to achieving inclusive growth. The report also provides polic...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 This report summarizes the initial activities of the Regional Hub, and contextualizes the challenges in Asia and the Pacific with the global efforts to reach the 2030 targets.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jul 2017 The results of the study indicate that climate change will likely have significant negative impacts on agricultural output in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
by M.W. Rosegrant | On 05 Jul 2017 The report says that Cambodia’s growth in the last 20 years has been remarkable and the lives of its people have improved substantially. But low-cost labor advantages on a narrow economic base have dr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Jun 2017 This report summarizes findings and policy recommendations for the government's 13th Five-Year Plan.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This study, using an inclusive growth framework, has identified the critical constraints that Fiji needs to address to strengthen investor sentiment even further and achieve inclusive growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 This desk review explores the links between infrastructure development and women’s time poverty in Asia and the Pacific by drawing on time-use data and reviewing existing research and evidence from im...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 This report, a joint effort of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization, seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the context, constraints, and opportunities for increasin...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jun 2017 The report herein provide in-depth analysis of the state of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Nepal.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 Jun 2017 The report summarizes important lessons learned and policy implications from the first year of Village Law implementation.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jun 2017 The report sets out the experience, analysis and conclusions of VisionFund International and their Philippine microfinance operation Community Economic Ventures Incorporated (CEVI). This analysis foll...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 The study examines the Philippine government’s convergence initiative, and how it relates to community-driven development (CDD) that can impact rural communities in the Philippines.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment. Examples come from the inclusive business portfolios of the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 This report narrates that ADB has scaled up its assistance to Papua New Guinea for power infrastructure, with an emphasis on clean energy solutions, in line with the government’s prioritization of pow...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This report presents the case study of that project, whose special features include responsiveness to local contexts and to conditions created by conflict, a well-coordinated system for women collecti...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jun 2017 Rural roads and rural transport services are fundamental to reducing rural poverty and enabling social and economic development. Evidence from Myanmar, and from around the world, makes it clear that a...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 The report narrates that in 2015, there were about five lakh road accidents in India, which killed about 1.5 lakh people and injured about five lakh people. India, as a signatory to the Brasilia decla...
by Prachee Mishra | On 30 May 2017 Tajikistan has sustained high economic growth since its civil war ended in 1997. Real gross domestic product (GDP) during 1997–2015 grew at an average 7.2% a year, driven mainly by agriculture and ser...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 May 2017 This report presents the findings of a climate risk financing study conducted by the GMS Core Environment Program in 28 rural communities in Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Viet Na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 2017 The private healthcare sector in rural India is often dominated by unqualified rural medical practitioners (RMPs). However, there is limited evidence on RMPs and potential for an intervention to reduc...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 May 2017 This paper narrates that elections impact everyone in the entire country – citizens, businesses, administrative machinery, constitutional institutions, political parties, leaders and so on. Eventual i...
by Bibek Debroy | On 18 May 2017 India has achieved significant economic growth over the past decades but the progress on Health has not been commensurate. The inability to rapidly improve the Human Capital also places a binding cons...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 May 2017 It has been observed that even though the Indian economy has achieved remarkable economic growth along with a decline in poverty over the last two decades, improvements in nutritional status have not...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 May 2017 The paper narrates that the specific needs of the Pacific in the process of urbanization must be recognized and adequately addressed in the post-2015 development agenda. Key priorities include upgradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 Talk by Anirudh Krishna, based on his book 'The Broken Ladder', which delves into the lives of ordinary individuals to take a ground-up view towards answering questions about the potential of civic pa...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 10 May 2017 The paper mentions that over the 25 years that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has partnered with Mongolia, the country continues to be defined to a certain extent by its transition to free market re...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 This paper argues that the recent policy rhetoric towards cities in India has been shaped by
their increasing economic importance in national output generation, as well as a series of
prominent glob...
by Indian Institute for Human Settlements | On 05 May 2017 This report summarises the main results of the initiative Earth Observation for a Transforming Asia and Pacific
(EOTAP) that brought together our two institutions – the European Space Agency (ESA) an...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 This report explores three entry points to the theme of poverty and prosperity: (i) managing
urbanization for inclusive development, (ii) strengthening responses to rural poverty in the context of
t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 Conditional cash transfers are increasingly being used by policymakers as a strategy to postpone the marriage of adolescent girls in developing countries. While this approach has met with success in t...
by | On 27 Apr 2017 Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in reducing poverty in the majority of countries. In emerging and developing countries, taken as a whole, it is estimated that nearly 2 bi...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 In 2015, there were about five lakh road accidents in India, which killed about 1.5 lakh people and injured about five lakh
people. India, as a signatory to the Brasilia declaration, intends to reduc...
by Prachee Mishra | On 30 Mar 2017 Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of perso...
by | On 16 Mar 2017 a major challenge
before Indian agriculture is the standardization of methods of providing the
power and economy of scale to small producers. A serious problem confronting our agriculture is the di...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 14 Mar 2017 Finance Minister of Delhi Shri Manish Sisodia presented the budget of Delhi.
by Manish Sisodia | On 10 Mar 2017 In national accounts, government expenditures are used to measure the value of public
spending. These expenditures grossly overestimate the value of services received by
Indian households because th...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 01 Mar 2017 Through a broad portrayal of character of its development, changing
urban patterns, nature of urban economic structure and contents of
urban development policies, this paper takes a political econom...
by Biswaroop Das | On 17 Feb 2017 The category of Scheduled Castes, created for the purpose of affirmative action in
India, is large, heterogeneous and unequal. In 2007, the state of Bihar classified the
most disadvantaged among thi...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 16 Feb 2017 Compulsory education has a vital role to play in eradicating child labour. Getting children out of work and into school could provide an impetus for poverty reduction and the development of skills nee...
by | On 14 Feb 2017 Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally represen...
by | On 24 Jan 2017 This report, The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030, examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It concludes that, without concerted action, there could be up t...
by | On 23 Jan 2017 Inadequate dietary intake and prolonged undernourishment can lead to short term and long term consequences, which can deplete financial, physical, and social capital, further exacerbating the cycle of...
by | On 18 Jan 2017 The battle against the challenges with food security and nutrition will have to be fought on many fronts at the same time. In general, anything that promotes broad-based or inclusive growth, thereby r...
by | On 18 Jan 2017 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2017-18 on January 11, 2017.
by Arvind Gayam | On 17 Jan 2017 The demographic structure of South Asian countries are rapidly transforming, which can greatly influence future rice production and consumption in the region. Literature on the impact of demographic t...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among t...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 Shortage of electricity prompted the countries to give a momentum to renewable energy resources. Renewable energy refers to energy resources that Aries naturally and repeatedly in the environment and...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 Data from two recent NSSO surveys are analysed to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education
and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher education out...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Jan 2017 Much empirical research has shown that individuals’ decisions to adopt a new technology are the result of learning–both through personal experimentation through observing the experimentation of others...
by Jared Gars | On 03 Jan 2017 The policies needed to promote financial inclusion in the digital age were discussed
at an international conference held at the Asian Development Bank Institute.
The event took place on 7–8 April 2...
by Shawn Hunter | On 29 Dec 2016 Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, however its impact will be varied across regions and temperature zones. Small island states will be hit the hardest with sea level rise. In bigger coun...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 This discussion paper examines the current state of sanitation services in India in relation to two goals—Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which calls on countries to halve, by 2015,...
by Asian Bank | On 27 Dec 2016 India's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlines its intent to scale up the country's clean-energy capacity. At the same...
by | On 21 Dec 2016 This paper analyses the trends and pattern of women’s employment in rural India using unit data from two types of large scale surveys. It shows that while rural women’s employment has grown over the d...
by | On 20 Dec 2016 Despite increases in women’s employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on household and care work. Understanding how social expectations govern gender roles and c...
by Greg Seymour | On 15 Dec 2016 The urbanization is a process which urban social and urban civilization forming gradually. On the way of urbanization, we develop the economy first and improve the quality of people’s life later. Alth...
by | On 14 Dec 2016 This study investigates the consequences of poor implementation in public workfare programs, focusing
on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India. Using
national...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 29 Nov 2016 Economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and improved the lives of many more over the last half-century. Yet it is increasingly evident that a model of development based solely o...
by | On 29 Nov 2016 With the farm sector continuing with unimpressive performance in terms
of the growth of value of output, agricultural infrastructure and also sustained
massive rise in the landless agricultural labo...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Nov 2016 The impact of trade policy on poverty, food security and inequality in developing countries is at the centre of a crowded international debate on the role of international trade in development. Develo...
by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP | On 24 Nov 2016 Women workers are found in certain activities traditionally falling within the male domain. This is particularly the case for landless women who largely belong to the hardcore poor group. It indicates...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This article focuses on Chinese female rural migrant workers. Based on the survey data collected in Anhui and Sichuan provinces of China, the article investigates gender aspects of Chinese rural-urban...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This Report on the World Social Situation seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication. It affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking,...
by United Nations (UN) | On 17 Nov 2016 Finances of states have been changing due to (i) increased devolution of central taxes, (ii) rationalisation of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes, (iii) the introduction of the UDAY scheme, and (iv) the...
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 Nov 2016 This inaugural report on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The report analyses selected in...
by | On 03 Nov 2016 It will be argued that while modernization in India has allowed for small improvements to women's autonomy, in rural India today the little autonomy women do have is constricted through traditional no...
by | On 02 Nov 2016 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 While discussing about the problems and issues faced by children in India, we have overlooked a category of
children that are almost always overlooked are the ‘Children in Conflict with the Law’. Man...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Oct 2016 The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about
population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that
information to advance the well-being of current and futu...
by | On 21 Oct 2016 This report synthesises insights on children and young people (CYP) from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) J...
by | On 20 Oct 2016 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 10 Oct 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 It is generally recognised that poverty is experienced differently according to their gender, age, caste, class and ethnicity and within households. Income levels, food security and indeed life choice...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper].
by Kumud Sharma | On 30 Sep 2016 Migration is a complex issue which has been a subject of keen interest for many years to sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, economists and political scientists. The migrants who work out of...
by | On 29 Sep 2016 This Project Briefing explores the experiences of these people as they migrate, drawing on findings from a baseline study on their vulnerabilities, particularly to HIV and AIDS, as they move between t...
by | On 29 Sep 2016 This paper comprehensively examines the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular attention to the role of the social safety net in mitigating the adverse effects of shocks to e...
by Marianne Bitler | On 26 Sep 2016 Produced on the occasion of World Water Day 2007, which focused on the issue of water scarcity, this publication addresses the challenges of water scarcity in relation to climate change, rural areas,...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Sep 2016 This paper tests the hypothesis that the expansion of improved drinking water supplies in rural India reduced household expenditure on water quality, offsetting some of the quality benefits from sourc...
by | On 16 Sep 2016 This paper sets out the water and food security challenges in Least Development Countries (LDCs) and developing countries. The document explores the rainfed-irrigation nexus in different regions of th...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 12 Sep 2016 This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition, illustrated in blue in the figure below. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 South Asia has been characterized by its minimal progress in the areas of child and maternal health and nutrition in comparison to other regions in the world. The case of India is especially enigmatic...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 The paper examines the issues around mobilization of resources for the 11 countries of the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), by analysing their macroeconomic situation, he...
by | On 07 Sep 2016 This paper explores the normative and empirical consequences of the MDG hunger target (1C), to halve the proportion of people who are undernourished, measured by the proportion of children under 5 who...
by | On 06 Sep 2016 Many national and international environmental agreements acknowledge that the impoverishment of ecosystems is limiting the world’s capacity to adapt to climate change and that ecosystem-based adaptati...
by | On 05 Sep 2016 This study provided a brief discussion of the international migration, an age old common phenomenon is an emerging economic development issue and remittances growth. Approach: Each year Bangladesh exp...
by | On 31 Aug 2016 This policy brief presents to parliamentarians and other policy makers, to examine the hunger, undernutrition and food security situation prevailing in India. It advances the need to undertake effecti...
by N.C. Saxena | On 31 Aug 2016 Comprehensive program evaluation requires capturing indirect effects of an intervention,
such as changes in leaders’ efforts and constituents’ attitudes towards leaders. We
study political economy r...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students’ enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 Using a global computable general equilibrium model, the paper analyzes the potential effects of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on the Philippine economy. The analysis involves an...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 In the paper, an informal preschool program is described that Akshara Foundation administered over 12 months in a set of non-notified slums in Bengaluru. The intervention is particularly noteworthy be...
by K. Vaijayanti | On 29 Aug 2016 We use a relatively new and unique panel dataset collected from rural households in Bangladesh to examine the effect of microcredit program participation on household food security. The main distingui...
by | On 25 Aug 2016 This paper addresses some aspects related to these two important research questions, and thus builds on the base of knowledge. The paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss the economic growth...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 The big challenge of the new century is the reduction of poverty. Virtually all countries and donors agree on the importance of reducing poverty and its attendant problems of inequity, lack of respect...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 24 Aug 2016 The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide co...
by | On 23 Aug 2016 Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. S...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 In the era of globalisation, where opening of borders is being advocated all over the world, there is one issue over which no nation-state is ready to compromise with its territorial borders. The issu...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 To monitor changes in absolute poverty across time, it is crucial to ensure that the established poverty line is a fixed standard of living that represents the minimum standard required by an individu...
by Jose Ramon Alber | On 17 Aug 2016 This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity a...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Aug 2016 Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healt...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Aug 2016 This report reviews the main trends in global poverty, assesses projections on poverty trends for the medium term, and considers the implications for antipoverty policy. Three main points emerge from...
by Armando Barrientos | On 10 Aug 2016 Persistent hunger and malnutrition is a problem affecting millions of people globally, the majority of whom are women and girls. Food and nutrition insecurity is a political, economic and environmenta...
by Bridge Cutting Edge Programme | On 09 Aug 2016 India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within three years. The program guarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wa...
by Satadru Das | On 09 Aug 2016 70% of the population engaged in agriculture. The vast majority of the poor and food insecure are in rural areas. Therefore poverty alleviation and food security must start in these areas. The most cr...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Aug 2016 This section looks at a range of factors that enable progress towards food security and nutrition goals. The list of factors – economic growth, agricultural productivity growth, markets (including int...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 03 Aug 2016 Labour markets in South Asia have been characterized as dualistic, with a relatively small, well-protected formal sector and a large unprotected informal sector. Indeed, the formal workforce is very s...
by | On 29 Jul 2016 Today, there is renewed interest in the informal economy worldwide. This is because a large share of the global workforce and economy is informal and because the informal economy is growing in many co...
by | On 29 Jul 2016 Drawing on data from the 2006 China General Social Survey, propensity score matching was used to investigate the impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China at distinct sta...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 The agenda is a road map for people that will
build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals and ensure sustainable social and economic progress worldwide. It seeks not only to eradicate ex...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jul 2016 This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared:...
by Azhar Kahn | On 19 Jul 2016 The paper examines vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and ea...
by Ira N. Gang | On 19 Jul 2016 The MDG on hunger requires that the proportion of people suffering from hunger be halved between 1990 and 2015. Behind this apparently simple statement lies much complexity: the food intake required t...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 The enforcement of The Forest Conservation Act, 1980 enabled the regulation of widespread diversions of forestland for non-forest uses, and hence put a check on deforestation. The changing priorities...
by | On 12 Jul 2016 A wholesome policy framework for the benefit of the farmers of the State is in place since 2008 with a focus more on the economic well-being of the farmers, rather than just on production and growth....
by Government of Odisha | On 11 Jul 2016 The rural structural distinctiveness in terms of resource endowments and factors of production often has bearings on livelihood and well-being of their people, constraining improvement in the economic...
by Rajiv Mehta | On 11 Jul 2016 This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression di...
by Xi Chen | On 11 Jul 2016 Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. The scheme is eval...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 11 Jul 2016 Malaysia is now a major receiving country with estimated over 2 million migrant workers. Such large inflow was caused by scarcity of jobs in plantation, construction and domestic growth. Migrant worke...
by | On 08 Jul 2016 This paper presents Asia-Pacific’s likely progress across the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, if trends continue on their current trajectories. Some Asian countries have been the world’s top per...
by | On 07 Jul 2016 This report has benefited from substantial input from many people, including the members of the Thematic Group and hundreds of suggestions received from experts representing all sectors of agriculture...
by | On 05 Jul 2016 This report builds and expands upon the analyses of Report Card No. 6 which considered relative income poverty affecting children and policies to mitigate it. This report provides a pioneering, compre...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 30 Jun 2016 The objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Health Care System in the State of Kerala with a special reference to impact of duality and role of bureaucr...
by Jacob John | On 29 Jun 2016 Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests wh...
by Subhasish Dey | On 27 Jun 2016 India claims to have achieved financial growth of 7% but despite this high growth rate, poverty and
inequality has also grown exponentially and social security, standard of life, security of labor ha...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 27 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and...
by Klaus Deininger | On 27 Jun 2016 What are the policies that Indian government has implemented to alleviate poverty and hunger? Can we say that these are implemented in the right way? What lies in future?
by Aarti Salve | On 24 Jun 2016 The study attempts to measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. It then uses informat...
by | On 23 Jun 2016 The problems of food security and agriculture should be viewed within the context of the broader structural transformation as Asia becomes increasingly urban and nonagricultural. This paper aims to re...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Jun 2016 The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the relationship between ability tracking and student social capital, in the context of poor students in developing countries. Drawing on the results...
by Fan Li | On 23 Jun 2016 The present report is a result of efforts that were spread over a period of more than a year (2013
– 2014) and included two national level consultations and sharing meetings held in Delhi, visit to m...
by Simpreet . | On 23 Jun 2016 Small land holders dominate Indian agriculture, and need off-farm income for survival. Analysis shows that for sufficient off-farm income
opportunities, growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or touri...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Jun 2016 This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi-sector model of the labor market for developing countries with three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self-employment, heterogeneity in abili...
by Arnab K. Basu | On 22 Jun 2016 This study uses the theory of social capital and social cognition to understand the drivers of Internet use from the perspective of outcome expectations and self-efficacy. The primary research questi...
by Rekha Jain | On 21 Jun 2016 India’s expanding partnership with Afghanistan has grown into multi-sectoral activities in all parts of Afghanistan. India’s reconstruction and developmental programmes in Afghanistan follow prioritie...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 21 Jun 2016 Agriculture is central to food security and economic growth in developing countries and provides the main source of livelihood for three out of four of the world’s poor. But food production requires s...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 20 Jun 2016 The present study has been conducted in the rural and urban areas of 9 districts of 9 commissionaries
in Bihar. A random sample of 375 families is drawn from different socio-economic backgrounds. The...
by CARE India | On 20 Jun 2016 Review of Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India. Edited by B. S. Baviskar and D. W. Attwood, Sage Publications, New Delh, 2014.
by | On 20 Jun 2016 Agriculture and nutrition are linked in many ways. People have long recognized the most obvious connection—food security is one of the three pillars of good nutrition, along with good care and good he...
by Lawrence Haddad | On 17 Jun 2016 This paper assesses the proclivity towards refugee-related violence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, using an original dataset. I show that the host’s attitude towards refugees depend on local fact...
by | On 17 Jun 2016 Land degradation and desertification pose an ever - increasing
global environmental threat. Human activities such as over cultivation,
overgrazing, deforestation and poor irrigation practices, along...
by Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO | On 17 Jun 2016 This paper contains the annual report 2010 of Ministry of Finance and Planning, Government of Sri Lanka.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning, Govt of Sri Lanka | On 15 Jun 2016 According to the World Bank’s Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016, more than 250 million people, or 3.4 percent of the world population, live outside their countries of birth (Figure 1). The volum...
by | On 14 Jun 2016 The article gives the guidelines for setting up the Anganwadi centres under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). The Government is committed to repositioning the Anganwadi Centre (AWC) as “...
by Ministry of Rural Development GoI | On 10 Jun 2016 According to a report from the Mckinsey Global Institute, India is set to witness a leap in urban population by almost 25 crore over the next 20 years. That translates to roughly 35,000 more people in...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 In India, a majority of rural households meet their energy requirements from traditional fuel sources, such as fuel wood, agricultural residues and kerosene. Statistics shows that 21 percent of villag...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts fo...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The paper examines the effects of political strikes and labour unrest on production in 33 large ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh. We find that the political strikes (hartals) lasting one or...
by | On 08 Jun 2016 This study, based on analysis of secondary data, assesses the current state of electricity access in PHCs and rural primary schools. Given the increasing policy support for solar energy in India, it a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 Credit Suisse recently revealed that the richest 1% have now accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together. Meanwhile, the wealth owned by the bottom half of humanity has fallen by a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the State budget documents, detailed demand for grants of MoHFW and
other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gives in totality classification...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoH&FW | On 02 Jun 2016 The Global Slavery Index (‘the Index’) provides an estimate of the number of people in modern slavery, the factors that make individuals vulnerable to this crime, and an assessment of government actio...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 Discrimination against women from or even before birth guarantees them a marginal role in Indian society, and ensures that they are poorer, less educated, and facing more unemployment and health risks...
by | On 31 May 2016 Despite its declining contribution to the GDP of ASEAN economies, agriculture remains a major source of employment for rural populations and provides much value add for agrifood industries. The ASEAN...
by | On 27 May 2016 The report is on a pilot project in the ready-made garment sector in Pakistan. The pilot had two objectives. The first objective was to develop a methodology for benchmarking productivity in the garme...
by | On 26 May 2016 Political repression is reaching new highs in Bangladesh. The government’s abuse of rule of law institutions for political ends has created an atmosphere of injustice that is increasingly exploited by...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 This report presents the results of the new approach to measuring poverty and standards of living, which the Royal Government of Cambodia initiated and carried out through 2011-2012.
by | On 25 May 2016 The paper starts with a discussion of the general context of growth and poverty across the region, exposure to risk or crisis, and the nature of vulnerability
facing individuals, households and commu...
by | On 25 May 2016 It is important to understand the fiscal capacity that underlies any potential mechanism to implement the social agenda of the SDGs, particularly if the international community wants to hold governmen...
by Victor Kwadwo | On 25 May 2016 This report explores the role of forests in a green economy transformation in Africa. Its aim is to present policymakers with a strong rationale for linking forests and REDD+ planning with green econo...
by | On 25 May 2016 The present report on nutritional intake in India is based on data collected through the 61st round of NSS (July 2004-June 2005). It mainly focuses on intake of nutrients by households in terms of pro...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 20 May 2016 The results of the India State Hunger Index 2008 highlight the continued overall severity of the hunger situation in India, while revealing the variation in hunger across states within India. It is in...
by Purnima Menon | On 20 May 2016 Since its independence the government
of Bangladesh had taken various measures to reduce the intensity of poverty on rural
people in Bangladesh. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine wh...
by Mahfuza Akther | On 20 May 2016 This edition of the World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) examines the relationship between decent work and poverty reduction. It starts by documenting trends in poverty around the world while pa...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 19 May 2016 This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based gro...
by | On 19 May 2016 The decline of jobs with secure and lasting contracts and work-related social benefits as well as the corresponding rise in precarious and unprotected work are phenomena affecting both industrialized...
by Anna Marriot | On 18 May 2016 This publication highlights the link between rainwater harvesting, ecosystems and human wellbeing and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects of using this technology...
by | On 18 May 2016 The causes of air pollution and the minerals that cause air pollution are shown here. The various activities in other states and even the neighbouring countries contribute to the air pollution in Delh...
by Umesh Kulshrestha | On 11 May 2016 The study is expected to contribute to stimulating debate around the broader issues of safeguarding the interests of migrant workers through financial mainstreaming of their income, raising efficacy o...
by | On 11 May 2016 An analysis of electoral data in local elections shows that rural local bodies have had higher turnouts than their urban counterparts in almost all states of India. Data from 2009-13 of city corporati...
by Bhanu Joshi | On 09 May 2016 Climate change combat is often in the hands of policy-makers, researchers and
governments. However it is the marginalised and indigenous communities that feel
the full force of climate change effect...
by Serina Rahman | On 03 May 2016 Given the fact that education of young adults plays crucial role from both economic and social point of view, the objective of the study is to analyse the pattern of improvements in their education an...
by Runu Bhakta | On 02 May 2016 It is going to be 25 years since India embarked on big-bang economic reforms in 1991. What are the achievements in terms of growth and inclusive growth in the post-reform period? What are the issues i...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 02 May 2016 This report is aimed at better informing that debate by demystifying the
global and South Asian apparel markets, estimating the potential gains in exports and jobs (including for women), and identify...
by Gladys Lopez Acevedo | On 29 Apr 2016 Since the mid-1990s, migration of workforces from rural to urban areas has accelerated in south India accompanied by remarkable urban-based economic development. To investigate the nature of such rura...
by Keiko Sato | On 29 Apr 2016 This report consists the findings of a survey carried out in February 2016 in Tamil Nadu. The purpose of the survey was to find out what voters really want from the Government and how they rate the pe...
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 The “Slater” villages of Tamil Nadu that were first surveyed by the University of Madras economist, Gilbert Slater, and his students in 1916, were resurveyed in the 1930s, 1960s and the 1980s. This pa...
by John Harriss | On 27 Apr 2016 This paper presents a model for contextual strategizing and scaling up of interventions to accelerate the pace of reduction of child marriage, with particular reference to India, and within India with...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 18 Apr 2016 As the international community transitions from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the challenges ahead of Member States is to build on the
substanti...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 12 Apr 2016 In addition to negatively affecting health, the qualitative findings reveal that water service
delivery failures have a constellation of other adverse life impacts—on household economy,
employment,...
by Ramnath Subbaraman | On 12 Apr 2016 We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and res...
by Nishith Prakash | On 11 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 06 Apr 2016 This study reviews two methods of measuring poverty dynamics. The components approach uses the
longitudinally averaged income to determine whether a household is chronically poor or not. On the
othe...
by Arturo Martinez Jr. | On 06 Apr 2016 The report gives a detailed account of the education system in India.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 05 Apr 2016 The NEP Plan of Action (PoA) 2008 translates the provisions of the National Food Policy, 2006 towards achieving its three core objectives into 26 strategic areas of intervention, priority actions to b...
by Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) | On 04 Apr 2016 This paper analyzes the changes in employment and earnings of paid workers in rural India from
2004/05 to 2011/12. While the employment rate of adults remained stable at 51 percent during this
perio...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 04 Apr 2016 IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes an in-dep...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 04 Apr 2016 This paper reports on the impact of a potential strategy to address iron
deficiency anemia in rural areas: double fortified salt (DFS) — salt fortified with iron and iodine. They conducted a large-sc...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 23 Mar 2016 The paper contains a theoretical discussion and a literature survey on the economic impact of child labour. Three main categories of economic impact of child labour are analysed: 1) the effects of chi...
by Rossana Galli | On 21 Mar 2016 This paper follows the lead in substituting variable names for national social systems from the project on “Democratization and Value Change in East Asia.” Specifically, it investigates the associatio...
by Robert Albritton | On 21 Mar 2016 India-Bangladesh relations are advancing rapidly in recent times. There are of course some impediments such as non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in trade, and the Teesta water-sharing dispute that need to be...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 21 Mar 2016 In some poor parts of the world, rural areas are known as pastoral folk; for their heavily dependence on agricultural activities; and for having poor infrastructure, limited employment opportunities a...
by Subrata Dutta | On 20 Mar 2016 This working paper outlines a set of indicators at the outcome and impact level for the agriculture and rural development sector. It does not focus on implementation (e.g. output level indicators such...
by European union | On 20 Mar 2016 This short paper considers the poverty impacts of livelihood diversification and the potential challenges of creating a pro-poor rural non-farm economy (RNFE). Rural diversification can be defined as...
by Daniel Start | On 20 Mar 2016 Rural-urban linkages are both a cause and a consequence of socio-economic development. Though there is a vast volume of literature on this subject, there are quite a few gaps in our knowledge about th...
by RS Pundir | On 20 Mar 2016 This paper characterises and distinguishes co-operatives from other forms of organisations and highlights the important place they occupy in India‘s rural economy. It examines their contribution to ru...
by Katar Singh | On 20 Mar 2016 This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand f...
by Basab Dasgupta | On 20 Mar 2016 In 2010, Cambodia outlined a plan aimed at developing its rice sector into a major rice exporting country. The rice sector was chosen due to comparative advantages in land, perceptions of significant...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 The Royal Government of Cambodia is grateful for the timely conduct of the study. The ideas and findings in this report will certainly be useful in providing inputs to support and operationalize the R...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Cambodia has made great strides toward sustained rapid and inclusive economic growth since its political environment stabilized in 1999. Its 7.8% average annual growth since then has dramatically brou...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Asia has been continuously growing, and this growth has alleviated poverty and increased the number of middle income countries in the region. However, the recent regional and global economic slowdown...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Improving the quality of skills among its labor force will help further economic growth in Bangladesh. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide better access to TVET to help increase productivity and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 This report describes the development of financial soundness indicators for Bangladesh and analyzes how these can help identify key challenges to support financial sector stability in the country.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Poverty alleviation is the cornerstone and mission of the development community. Yet perhaps the community’s focus on low-income countries (LICs) has skewed a healthy and accurate evaluation of the ef...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 This year it is predicted that Vietnam’s economy will slump to a level not seen since 1999. As a result of this and factional in-fighting over this issue, on the 22nd of October Vietnam’s Prime Minist...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Tenancy has been on the rise in the post economic liberalization period from the decades of 1990s. It was also viewed that freeing the lease market for land may contribute to equity as well as efficie...
by E Revathi | On 14 Mar 2016 When it comes to measuring inflation persistence, a common practice in empirical research is to estimate univariate autoregressive moving average (ARMA) time series models and measure persistence as t...
by Naveen Srinivasan | On 11 Mar 2016 In this paper we present a choice function of a rural household about her/his ward?s schooling. It makes an empirical evaluation on the basis of simple theoretical framework using primary data set, su...
by Debdulal Thakur | On 11 Mar 2016 The paper, written in the context of the recent deportation of 27 Bangladeshi workers from Singapore, argues that what is required is a united front, a closing of ranks of the disparate political and...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 11 Mar 2016 The relationship between gender and poverty is a complex and debatable topic more than ever and thus a potential area for policy makers to focus. The aim of this paper is to review existing literature...
by Sukanya Das | On 10 Mar 2016 Harnessing Myanmar’s hydropower, while essential for the country’s development, has significant potential to stir social unrest in ethnic states. Trang Do and Elliot Brennan argue that Vietnam’s exper...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper applies a program evaluation technique to assess the causal effect of adoption of agricultural related technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by different indices. The...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper intends to explore functional and households personal income distribution across four different income groups in both the urban and rural areas. Using Social Accounting framework, Siddiqui...
by A. R. Kemal | On 10 Mar 2016 The specific question to be explored in this study is: whether or not trade liberalisation (tariff reduction) policies improve income distribution and reduce poverty in Pakistan?
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study provides the link between poverty and labour market. The other strength of the paper is the use of newly conducted Pakistan Socio-economic Survey 1998-99, which provides the latest i...
by Zafar Mueen Nasir | On 10 Mar 2016 The present analysis is based on the Pakistan Socio-Economic Survey (PSES) data. The survey was conducted nationwide between April and July, 1999 and collected data on household information, incidence...
by Syed Mubashir Ali | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study while decomposing poverty across different socio-economic groups has included this variable in the analysis. The determinants of poverty based on logistic regressions have also been...
by Sarfraz K. Qureshi | On 10 Mar 2016 This brief paper is quite focused. It describes the methodology and scope of the household survey carried out by the PIDE between March and July 1999, with an aim to generate nationally representative...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 This study intends to analyze the impact of fiscal policy relating to subsidies (production and consumption subsidies), government current expenditure and expenditure on health and education on income...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 Three major objectives of this study are: (i) to understand China’s success against poverty, particularly the mechanism through which, the economic reforms led to poverty reduction; (ii) to give a his...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 The study deals with pension system reforms for the Pakistan economy and highlights the current situation and future prospects. The study presents an overview of the problems prevailing in current pay...
by Umaima Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 This study has three objectives: first, to construct a health poverty index (HPI) for Pakistan using household data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey 2012-13; second,...
by Nasir Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper is a preliminary attempt to assess the impact of Christian social activists on issues facing adivasis in the state of Jharkhand in contemporary India. This has been prompted by a few factor...
by Sushil J. Aaron | On 09 Mar 2016 This NTS alert looks at the state of pandemic preparedness in Southeast Asia, while in the second part later in the month we will turn our attention towards the issues of poverty and infectious diseas...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 In the second issue of the NTS Alert for February, we turn our attention towards the complex interactions between poverty and diseases. We briefly summarise the state of the world's health, identify l...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 When the state is unable to provide adequately for the bottom half of the population, should it be giving tax benefits to the well-off?
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Mar 2016 This paper calculates a Women’s
Disempowerment Index to examine women’s control over production, resources, income, household
decisions, and time burden. The index is based on a slightly modified me...
by Nuzhat Ahmad | On 04 Mar 2016 Historical evidence suggests that economic development has been central to improving public health. This NTS Alert takes a closer look at the relationship between the two by reviewing the case of Chin...
by | On 03 Mar 2016 The Government of India has publicly committed to a doubling or trebling of government health spending by 2012 and launched a major program, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), to help spend the...
by Peter Berman | On 01 Mar 2016 The Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr. Jayant Mallayya, presented the Budget for Madhya Pradesh for the financial year 2016-17 on February 26, 2016.
by Arvind Gayam | On 01 Mar 2016 Using data from the National Family and Health Survey 3, India, this paper measures and validates the extent of multidimensional poverty and examines the linkages of poverty level with child health in...
by Sanjay K. Mohanty | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper considers the issue of migration of the Rohingyas from the lens of international law. It evaluates the responses of the countries that have been the destination of these migration flows – n...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 01 Mar 2016 The birth of Bangladesh in 1971 was an epoch-making event within the post-colonial order of South Asia. Led by the middle classes, a bitter and bloody war of Liberation from Pakistan was fought, based...
by Sanjay Bhardwaj | On 01 Mar 2016 The 1994 Fiscal Reforms in China were spectacularly successful in meeting the immediate challenges that the economy faced at that time—a sharply dropping tax/GDP ratio, and limited ability of the cent...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 Existence of structural and social inequality with growing poverty and shrinking livelihoods and other factors forced to people or entire families to migrate towards cities in search of means of survi...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty. It scrutinizes evidence from a series of nationally representative sample surveys...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper we explore an innovative approach to poverty reduction by the introduction of an agro-forestry variant of sustainable agricultural land technology among the rural farming population of a...
by Roger Montgomery | On 29 Feb 2016 The study followed a participatory and interactive approach to critically analyze the situation (state of knowledge demands and supply), stakeholder‘s alignment, consequences, conflicts and areas of c...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 The paper highlights a number of issues that countries need to explore in assessing the feasibility of a CCT program: a country needs to assess the current level of specific human capital outcomes and...
by Hyun H. Son | On 29 Feb 2016 This executive summary attempts to measure developed new techniques of measuring poverty. These techniques will be discussed here. The attempts to measure absolute poverty in India were made to know w...
by Manoranjan Pal | On 29 Feb 2016 The objective of this paper is to assess the prevalence of clinical forms of vitamin A deficiency (particularly Bitot spots) among the pre-school children in the rural areas of the States covered by N...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 Several sporadic studies carried out in the developing countries, including India have been reporting a steady increase in the prevalence of diet related chronic diseases like obesity, hypertension, d...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 The present survey was carried out to assess the prevalence of common
micronutrient deficiencies such as vitamin A deficiency (Bitot spots) among the preschool children (1-<5 years), Iodine deficienc...
by National Institute of Nutrition | On 29 Feb 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Feb 2016 Low birth weight is a major public health problem in India. About 30% of all infants born in hospitals are reported to weigh less than 2.5 kg at birth. Studies carried out by ICMR in the late seventie...
by Sarath Gopalan | On 29 Feb 2016 Reflecting on the speeches made at the 34th meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) held in Islamabad recently, one could suggest that nothing new was mentione...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 26 Feb 2016 The paper conceptualizes chronic poverty by using the spaces of income and nutrition and estimates its incidence among states and social groups. It also aims to improve our understanding of the determ...
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 25 Feb 2016 Is Food Aid effective or does it actually lead to other food-related insecurities? This paper examines whether Food Aid in Bangladesh merely addresses the challenge of food supply disruptions induced...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 South Asian organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipli...
by Zafar Qureshi | On 24 Feb 2016 While the Philippines has had a new economic growth trajectory in recent years, the country has had little progress in reducing poverty and in making growth more inclusive. In this paper, the authors...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 24 Feb 2016 Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agric...
by Larry Digal | On 23 Feb 2016 Despite recent decline, infant and child mortality in Bangladesh is still one of the highest among the developing countries with strong urban-rural differentials. Nearly one in ten children in Banglad...
by M. Islam | On 21 Feb 2016 In developing countries like Bangladesh rural-urban migration affects development in both urban and rural areas. As such, this study focuses on establishing the major causes and consequences of the mo...
by Research Institute of Social Welfare and | On 21 Feb 2016 This document is the culmination of a process that unfolded over two years in Bangladesh, which benefitted from contributions from individuals and organisations too numerous to mention by name here. H...
by Erin Roberts | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper examines the economic case for the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement signed on January 6 th, 2004 by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. It s...
by Tercan Baysan | On 21 Feb 2016 The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on wel...
by Dan Biller | On 21 Feb 2016 Myanmar’s recent suspension of a China-funded dam project draws attention to cross-border electricity inter- connectivity between China and its southern neighbours Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, apart fr...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years wrapped up last Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Has the outcome of Rio+20 managed to meet its promise?
by | On 20 Feb 2016 Euthanasia has always been in limelight as a subject matter of debate in the field of medicine and law. The euthanasia debate, being a value debate, seems to have no concrete solution, at least in the...
by Sandeepa Bhat B | On 20 Feb 2016 This paper examines the conceptual issues surrounding the estimation of savings and investment in Bangladesh and explains why there exist perceptible differences between the estimates of savings and i...
by Mustafa K. Mujeri | On 20 Feb 2016 One important aspect of recent developments is that a significant portion of the additional electricity generation has come from liquid fuel based power plants which has raised the total contribution...
by Mustafa K. Mujeri | On 20 Feb 2016 This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberalization and a deline in remittances from abroad-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework.
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 19 Feb 2016 We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Differe...
by Yus Pakpahan | On 19 Feb 2016 The employment shock of late 2008 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different events: (i) the contractionary macroeconomic policies introduced by the government...
by Xin Meng | On 19 Feb 2016 The present study has examined the changes in the employment scenario of Bangladesh following the pursuance of the trade liberalisation strategy and the possible effects of further trade liberalisatio...
by Wasel Shadat | On 19 Feb 2016 Foreign capital inflows (FKI) help an economy by financing the imbalance between income and expenditure. However, their impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this stu...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 18 Feb 2016 Asia’s rapid change across socio-economic and political spheres, amid population growth and rising demand for food, feed and energy supplies, is unprecedented. To strike a balance between economic gro...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 This workshop was conducted as part of the mitigation strategies in rice production project, implemented with support from the agriculture initiative of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition. The projec...
by B. Sander | On 18 Feb 2016 As the United Nations moves towards cementing a Post-2015 agenda with the Sustainable Development Goals, how can Asia-Pacific states best achieve these? It is time to recognise our resources from acro...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 This Evidence Report asks how a market systems approach could be applied to improve poor households’ access to nutrient-dense foods. By ‘market systems approach’ we mean methods that identify and addr...
by Jodie Thorpe | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is important sector for Indian economy. The agricultural growth output and rural income has to increase, only then can we think of an all-inclusive development of the economy. The problems...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 17 Feb 2016 The demand for environmental goods is often low in developing countries. The major causes are awareness regarding the contamination of water and poverty, but less attention has been paid to the former...
by Eatzaz Ahmed | On 16 Feb 2016 Water and Sanitation is the neglected sector in Pakistan. Most of the households in Pakistan do not have access to safe drinking water and lack toilets and adequate sanitation systems. These poor peop...
by Faheem Jehangir Khan | On 16 Feb 2016 The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial, both rural and urban level; using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard L...
by Muhammad Akram | On 16 Feb 2016 Many reforms have taken place in Indonesia following the Asian financial crisis of 1997– 1998. The government has embarked upon institutional transformation, making the country one of the region’s mos...
by Georg Inderst | On 16 Feb 2016 The Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project in Bangladesh became the first initiative to successfully incorporate beneficiary participation into all aspects of managi...
by Asian Bank | On 15 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh is contributing significantly to commercial banks to promote women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Various helpful policies are initiated to promote
w...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 15 Feb 2016 Like other developing countries, Bangladesh initiated financial sector reform program during 1990’s. The main objectives of the financial sector reform programs were: i) Gradual B 3 | P a g e eliminat...
by Sayera Younus | On 15 Feb 2016 The main objective of this study report is to find out the impact(s) of the refinance scheme of Bangladesh Bank (BB) through comparing the economic well-being of the target group people who have taken...
by Md. Julhas Uddin | On 15 Feb 2016 The current thinking on the subject of the central bank communication policy centres squarely on the transparency with which the bank conveys its beliefs on the evolving pattern of macroeconomic funda...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 15 Feb 2016 This document is designed to present a brief but comprehensive view of the real and monetary developments during the immediate past quarters and project the expected developments in the immediate futu...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper examines whether monetary policy transmits through bank assets or liabilities or both. This is an important policy issue since in order to know the effectiveness of monetary policy it is ne...
by Sayera Younus | On 15 Feb 2016 Basel II consists of three pillars such as Pillar I, II and III. Implementation of this New Accord is a challenge for many developing countries including Bangladesh. This study has made an attempt to...
by Md. Kabir Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 Identifying core inflation has become a very important issue for the Central Banks of the world for last few years. It has also become a practice to monitor the core inflation along side the headline...
by Md. Shahiduzzaman | On 15 Feb 2016 Lower spread is a vital indicator of the efficiency and competition in the financial system and conducive to higher economic growth of a country via investment spending. In Bangladesh, the spread in t...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 Emergence of the global market has heightened the role of trade in world economy and made industrialization as an integral system of global trade and production. Bangladesh economy at present is more...
by Md. Nehal Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the sectoral (agriculture, industry and service) growth pattern of Bangladesh economy over the last 11 years, 1995-2005. The rese...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Robin | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note is an exploratory attempt to verify the popular argument that cost side factors are no less contributory than demand side factors in stimulating inflation in the Bangladesh economy. T...
by Md. Alauddin Majumder | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note attempts to introduce the concept and size of tax expenditures in the context of Bangladesh with special references to experiences of India and Pakistan. It shows that the amount of t...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper tries to investigate the pattern of volatility in the overnight money market rate (call money rate) in Bangladesh using subjective judgment as well as econometric techniques during the peri...
by Md. Shahiduzzaman | On 15 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) adjusted its monetary policy stance during 2005 in order to contain inflationary pressures and facilitate stability in the foreign exchange market. At the end of 2005, interest ra...
by Shubhasish Barua | On 15 Feb 2016 The year 2007 marked a milestone in the fight against poverty and corruption. It represented the midway point on the road to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the ambitious global pledg...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social St...
by Muhammad Akram | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper explores linkages between governance and pro-poor growth in Pakistan for the period 1996 to 2005. The analysis indicates that governance indicators have low scores and rank at the lowest pe...
by Rashida Haq | On 14 Feb 2016 The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income/consumption in Pakistan, both its rural and urban areas, from 1963-64 to 2004-05. It e...
by Nadia Zakir | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper uses panel data from a pilot project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given...
by Céline Ferré | On 12 Feb 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) build on previous international development promises and represent an unprecedented, comprehensive framework for combating poverty, reaching universal education...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Rice seed production, marketing, distribution situation in Bangladesh and India is not considered to be efficient. This has led to low availability and accessibility of modern varieties (MV) rice seed...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 11 Feb 2016 In India an official definition of the term urban by Census is: over 5000 population; a population density of over 400 persons per sq km; over 75% of male workforce in non-primary activities. This art...
by Organising Team (MFC) | On 09 Feb 2016 A Baseline Study was conducted in 11 cities in early 2012 by the State Health Resource Centre. The survey focused on understanding utilization of maternal and child health services by urban slum popul...
by Priyanka Sahu | On 09 Feb 2016 This article offers observations to Gopal Guru’s article which highlights the endemic caste discrimination in places of higher learning in India in the wake of the Rohith Vemula suicide in Hyderabad....
by Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies | On 09 Feb 2016 This publication aims to provide a wide range of perspectives from various stakeholders on how trade policies and processes could contribute to advancing the objectives of sustainable land management...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 The census of agriculture is one of the key pillars of a national statistical system, and in many developing countries it is often the only means of producing statistical information on the structure...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score...
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 07 Feb 2016 The Social Protection and Decent Rural Employment research programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has grown out of the Social Protection Division’s research pla...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 07 Feb 2016 While aid flows topped US$ 128 billion in 2010, they have not always been good at achieving results due to corruption and mismanagement that arise from low levels of transparency, accountability and i...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 Urban poverty, which is distinct from rural poverty due to demographic, economic and political aspects remain hitherto unexplored, at the city level in Pakistan. The determinants of urban poverty in S...
by Masood Sarwar Awan | On 06 Feb 2016 This study has used two rounds of the two panel data sets to examine the poverty dynamics in rural Pakistan (Sindh and Punjab). The Pakistan SocioEconomic Survey (PSES ) covers two periods, 1998 and 2...
by G. M. Arif | On 06 Feb 2016 This exercise is envisaged to provide a brief account of the research studies on inter-relationship between remittance inflows from abroad and the poverty levels obtained in the country. This is discu...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 India is perceived to be one of the most attractive Non-Annex I countries for CDM project development. There are more than 350 projects in the CDM pipeline, largely in the areas of renewable energy, e...
by Smita Sirohi | On 05 Feb 2016 This research report tracks various aspects of poverty in Nepal across geographical areas and evaluates the rise of squatter settlements. It also looks at various dimensions of poverty, resilience for...
by Shivit Bakrania | On 05 Feb 2016 How can trade policy respond to the needs and concerns of more than a billion people in the developing world that lack access to energy for fulfilling their daily needs such as cooking and lighting? A...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 The World Bank was founded to correct failures in international capital markets. That role has shifted over the past 70 years. Modern analyses should proceed from the premise that the Bank’s central g...
by Michael Clemens | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the Indian pre-crisis strategy of liberalization and integration into the world economy and its impact on labour market trends. It then examines the specific ways in which the cr...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 According to western views, wealth is unambiguously good, and so human welfare is positive when wealth is in excess of needs, and negative if it is less. Islam has a substantially more sophisticated v...
by Asad Zaman | On 03 Feb 2016 This study investigates the existence of accrual anomaly by using a
sample of 340 non-financial firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. The
objective of the study is to examine the persistence of th...
by Jawad Mohammad | On 03 Feb 2016 The agriculture sector in Pakistan sustains the livelihoods of 45 per cent of the national population. Both the direct and indirect contributions of the agriculture sector to overall growth and wellbe...
by Golam Rasul | On 02 Feb 2016 The aggressive media campaigns by pesticide companies do not comply with FAO guidelines for advertising pesticides. Pakistan adopts FAO guidelines on the issues where Pakistani law is silent. The Paki...
by Shahid Zia | On 02 Feb 2016 In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both food and nonfood poverty thresholds. Although one cannot completely eliminate the...
by Nanak Kakwani | On 02 Feb 2016 By 2020, road accidents are expected to be the third highest cause of death and disability globally. Transport safety concerns in poor countries have focused mainly on roads and motorised traffic, but...
by International Forum for Rural Transport and Develo IFRTD | On 01 Feb 2016 This study is an attempt to comprehensively examine the contribution of Palestinian Civil Society organizations toward ending Palestinian division and achieving national reconciliation. To this end, a...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 Sri Lanka has about 120,000 engineered rural waterway crossings (such as bridges) and another 250,000 non-engineered crossings built and maintained by communities. Because of a lack of financial and h...
by Granie Jayalath | On 01 Feb 2016 Existing measures of urban poverty carried out for national level comparisons portray very low levels of poverty with an average urban household spending an equivalent to the top 20% of national expe...
by Neranjana Gunetilleke | On 01 Feb 2016 Governments in Asia must prioritise technologies that improve fishery productivity to meet the growing local and international demand for fish. This increased productivity must be sustainable, however...
by The WorldFish Center TWC | On 01 Feb 2016 This study combines rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. It does not advocate any particular kind of pension system or type of reform. The goal is to inf...
by OECD Development Centre | On 01 Feb 2016 In emerging economies like India, banking sector is very important. But banking sector is at 'crossroads'. There are many issues which this sector is facing and research which would generate fresh i...
by S.S. Mundra | On 01 Feb 2016 This study combines rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. It does not advocate any particular kind of pension system or type of reform. The goal is to inf...
by OECD Development Centre | On 31 Jan 2016 The rapidly unfolding global financial and economic crisis will severely disrupt economic growth worldwide, affect the livelihoods of billions around the world and endanger progress toward the poverty...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Forests are crucial for rural development, access to water, agricultural productivity, energy, soil conservation, and flood control. Forests are also home to at least 80 per cent of terrestrial biodiv...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Sustainable development requires a fundamental, global green technological transformation over the next 30 to 40 years. Otherwise, it will be impossible to simultaneously meet the goals of ending pove...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The responses collected from the online survey on people’s empowerment contained in this report represent a collaborative effort, made possible by the answers received from people across the world on...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 China has emerged as one of the important factors in India-Sri Lanka relations. It is important to contextualise this intervening variable, before going into various aspects of China’s footprints in S...
by N Manoharan | On 31 Jan 2016 Climate change adds to the existing challenges faced by cities. Cities – as net consumers rather than producers of food – are already highly vulnerable to the disruption of critical food and other sup...
by Marielle Dubbeling | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper examines the evidence on the forms of politics likely to promote inclusive social provisioning and enable, as opposed to constrain, improvements in service outcomes. It focuses on eight rel...
by Claire Mcloughlin | On 30 Jan 2016 Giving Youth a Voice, the first ever nationwide survey on youth, was started in 2011. The main findings of the report were released to the media in mid August, prior to the International Youth Day. Th...
by Syeda Aziz | On 30 Jan 2016 The courts are one of the most fundamental institutions where power is contested in a constitutional democracy. A functioning and an independent judiciary can restrain and hold the executive accountab...
by . BRAC | On 30 Jan 2016 This advisory note, while accepting the existing limitations of the transparency regime in public procurement process of the country, argues that the Right to Information (RTI) Act has the potential t...
by . BRAC | On 30 Jan 2016 This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional issues being faced by countries as they adapt to climate change, based on...
by Catherine Ragasa | On 30 Jan 2016 Currently, corruption is one of the most discussed topics in the everyday life of Bangladeshi people. They experience it at almost every stage from the top lair of the bureaucracy to the petty grocery...
by Harun Rashid | On 30 Jan 2016 In recent years, tax compliance has come to the centre of both academic and policy discourse for several reasons. In the first place, tax-GDP ratio in Bangladesh is very low (10.6%) when compared with...
by Nasiruddin Ahmed | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper explores how these perceptions and narratives around women’s empowerment have evolved in Bangladesh from 2000 to date. It studies the concepts of women’s empowerment in public discourse and...
by Sohela Nazneen | On 30 Jan 2016 Authors Jim Levinson and Yarlini Balarajan of UNICEF New York and Alessandra Marini of the World Bank present three major case studies from Peru, Brazil and Bangladesh, but also a historical review of...
by Jim Levinson | On 30 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Public Expenditure, Employment and Poverty in Bangladesh An Empirical Analysis has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Poverty-Environment Nexus: An Investigation of Linkage and Policy Implications has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 This manual has been written as a source book for gender interventions, an analysis of appropriate interventions giving various practical steps, rather than as a set of prescriptions. While the manual...
by Govind Kelkar | On 29 Jan 2016 This study first reviews current thinking on the underlying causes of conflicts and disasters, identifying poverty as a major driver of both. Poverty breeds frustration, compelling the poor to turn to...
by Surendra Varma | On 29 Jan 2016 South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the worl...
by Ejaz Ghani | On 29 Jan 2016 Bangladesh has a rich legacy of establishing and promoting local government institutions, but the actual roles and contributions of these institutions to augment citizens’ participation and consolidat...
by Niaz Khan | On 29 Jan 2016 Mountain communities in the developing world are often marginalised from political influence and economic opportunities and generally face high levels of poverty. The ecosystems they dwell in are amon...
by Mirjam Macchi | On 28 Jan 2016 The Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Education in India and South Asia was commissioned by infoDev to be undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers, India. The Survey is a third...
by The Survey on Information and Communication Techno ICT | On 28 Jan 2016 New thinking and practical approaches are needed to address the threats to human security that climate change combined with social vulnerability pose for current and future patterns of loss and damage...
by Koko Warner | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to understand the importance of reducing air pollution and its likely trans-boundary effects, it is important to first review the socioeconomic situation of the South Asian member states. Sou...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 This document elaborates the scientific framework of the Adaptation to Change Programme in an attempt to improve the connections between science, policy, practice, and stakeholders and to tackle chall...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 In rural India social and cultural norms are deep rooted in society. Access to productive assets, employment opportunities and consequently incomes are to a large extent influenced by these social fac...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper provides a comprehensive review of the working of various incentive schemes and assesses their utility coverage and quality of benefits received by the tribal children, besides an analysis...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper is an attempt to study plausible causal relationship of women’s physiology and behaviour components with fertility in more or less non-industrial rural populations in Orissa, an Eastern Ind...
by Satyajeet Nanda | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the potential of wells (as TWHS) in the Thar Desert area of Rajasthan. Following a detailed analysis of hydrological and structural aspects of the source and quality of water,...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 Conventionally, shifting cultivation (also known as Swidden) has been interpreted as inefficient (economically), destructive (ecologically) and an inflexible static form (institutionally) of agricultu...
by Amalendu Jyotishi | On 28 Jan 2016 Asia and the Pacific is home to 60 per cent of the global population aged 15 to 24 years. Across this geographically, politically, socially, culturally and economically expansive region, youth are a v...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws from a field research experiment to examine the
gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based insurance in Bangladesh. Participants were
presented with risky lotteries and...
by Daniel J. Clarke | On 28 Jan 2016 The first report from the UN system on the Post-2015 Development Agenda – Realizing the Future We Want for All – recommends that new goals should build on the strengths of the Millennium Development G...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 The research study highlights the financial inclusion needs of cycle rickshaw pullers in India. These include access to service sectors; improvement of asset base; employment of their women; increase...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 Voices around the world are demanding leadership and action in 2015 on poverty, inequality and climate change. These universal challenges demand global action, and this year presents unprecedented opp...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 27 Jan 2016 The EMPHASIS project (Enhancing Mobile Populations’ Access to HIV and
AIDS Services, Information and Support) has provided a diverse range of services to crossborder migrants in India, Nepal and Bang...
by Prabodh Devkota | On 27 Jan 2016 The objective of this working paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) -- a c...
by Shoaib Akhtar | On 27 Jan 2016 This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal.The study, a component of a wider programme on Sexuali...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 Meghalaya is a landlocked and largely agrarian state in northeast India with an approximate population of three million. Various government surveys report that roughly half the state lives below the p...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 Understanding and managing urbanisation in developing countries is one of the major global policy challenges for the first half of the 21st century. Rapidly growing towns and cities are increasingly r...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on a particular aspect of such rural-urban difference, namely nutritional status of children. Over the years it is found that under nutrition among children in India; have declining...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Jan 2016 Despite the high contribution of urban areas to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), urban poverty and nutrition security in India remains a challenge. Poor infrastructure, high unemployment, poor state...
by M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation | On 26 Jan 2016 The poor are not uniformly disadvantaged. For the most health indicators, the status of ‘excluded groups’ such as scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, and Muslims is significantly worse than that of...
by Sukhade Thorat | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper examines the spatial pattern of poverty in India and tries to understand how multiple deprivation leads to reproduction of poverty especially in forest-based economies in the central-eastern...
by Amita Shah | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper presents a brief account, based primarily on available secondary sources, of the current status of drinking water supply and sanitation in rural Madhya Pradesh. With a discussion on the lop...
by Keshab Das | On 26 Jan 2016 It is widely proclaimed that capital account liberalisation would
immensely benefit developing economies because once capital controls are lifted capital would flow from the capital abundant rich cou...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 25 Jan 2016 A large number of rural households in the state of Odisha, India are dependent on agriculture for their basic livelihoods, which is affected by the frequent occurrence of climate externalities like cy...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 25 Jan 2016 It is predicted that climate change will aggravate the presence of sudden (e.g. cyclones, floods etc.) and chronic (e.g. drought, erosion) hazards to agrarian communities in Bangladesh. According to t...
by Md Maniruzzaman | On 23 Jan 2016 This publication summarises CDKN’s partnership work with Bangladesh to date, highlighting key achievements and signposting further information. We are involved at many levels, by investing in policy-r...
by Climate and Development Outlook CDO | On 23 Jan 2016 This study examines the relationship if any among economic growth (output), private sector credit and inflation in Bangladesh. In many developed and developing countries, private sector credit has pla...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 This policy note reviews the trend in debt composition and sources of debt financing and analyzes debt sustainability of Bangladesh. Along with historical data on level of debt and sources of financin...
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 This study reports high positive correlation between FDI inflows and Bangladesh’s aggregate exports and imports. The net impact on the current account balance and the balance of payments is positive....
by Muhammad Amir Hossain | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of the contribution of food prices to inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the current inflation takes a bigger toll on the poor because they spend more of th...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 The thin bond market in Bangladesh faces manifold challenges emanating from several sources including excessive reliance on bank credit, government debt instruments dominated by primary auction based...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of inflation rate of import-concentrated commodities and their contribution to overall inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the Bangladesh economy has been ex...
by M. G. Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 The statutory liquidity requirement (SLR), as a monetary policy instrument, has experienced infrequent changes in Bangladesh. Past evidence shows that reduction in SLR produced positive impact on bank...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 Rice, a major staple crop for India and Bangladesh is important not only for ensuring food security, but also the livelihood security of large number of small and marginal farmers engaged in rice cult...
by Neha Jain | On 23 Jan 2016 This synthesis paper presents the findings from a multi-country research project which assesses the extent to which gender has been incorporated into the design and implementation of a wide range of s...
by Rebecca Holmes | On 23 Jan 2016 The paper examines the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India,Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 19...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 23 Jan 2016 Drawing on secondary literature and interviews and discussions with community members, local government officials, and various experts, the report proposes a mechanism through which LGIs could provide...
by International Centre for Climate Change and Develo ICCCAD | On 23 Jan 2016 Research suggests that development interventions that do not take mountain specificities into account may threaten rather than facilitate development for the inhabitants in a sustainable mountain envi...
by Brigitte Hoermann | On 23 Jan 2016 In the backdrop of rise in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in developing countries, particularly after the global financial and economic crisis, Bangladesh is still ambivalent in setting its strategies r...
by Khondaker Moazzem | On 23 Jan 2016 A number of studies have indicated that trade liberalisation did not have any significant impact on poverty reduction although the impact on employment generation had been positive (e.g. Raihan 2007)....
by Mehruna Chowdhury | On 23 Jan 2016 The jute manufacturing sector of Bangladesh has recently started to revitalise with the rise in global demand for jute goods, thanks to the environment-friendly nature of jute, and the price hike of p...
by Khondaker Moazzem | On 23 Jan 2016 A recent project under the CMI-CPD institutional collaboration agreement has looked at the effect of corruption on investment in the energy sector. A distinction is made between the extraction of ener...
by Arne Wiig | On 23 Jan 2016 Energy remains one of the key inputs to socio-economic progress in developing societies. South Asian nations, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lank...
by Anoop Singh | On 23 Jan 2016 This paper analyses the possible relevance of water and sanitation improvements for diarrhoea reduction in the context of Bangladesh. Much of the public policy thinking in the past was guided by publi...
by Binayak Sen | On 23 Jan 2016 The growing demand for public transport in mega cities has serious effects on urban ecosystems, especially due to the increased atmospheric pollution and changes in land use patterns. An ecologically...
by Rashmi Singh | On 23 Jan 2016 The intention of this study is to get an indication of the trends and uses of private sector commercial borrowing from external sources in Bangladesh. In this paper, an overall picture of the private...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 Over the years, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has been using changes in consumer price index (CPI) inflation as the operational guide to measuring price stability in Bangladesh. In recent years, it has how...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 Despite the removal of restrictions and reforms in the banking sector to facilitate the adoption of a market oriented interest rate policy, interest rates are yet to become fully responsive to the mar...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 Despite the importance, the contribution of SMEs to the country’s GDP and employment has remained somewhat unclear especially in view of the multiplicity of the definition of SMEs adopted by different...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 In the backdrop of recent global developments, this note examines some of the characteristics of inflation in Bangladesh including the contribution of major commodity groups to overall inflation in ru...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 This report summarizes outcomes of collaboration between ADB and implementing agencies of Bhutan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to address gaps in the production of a...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 This study of individuals identified as influential within nutrition in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and India examines why particular individuals champion nutrition policy, and how they operate in the...
by Nicholas Nisbett | On 23 Jan 2016 Over the years, India has designed and implemented a number of targeted interventions for the poor including putting in place specific reservations for the disadvantaged to ensure equitable access to...
by Global IPE | On 22 Jan 2016 The India Health Report: Nutrition 2015 surveys the trends in maternal and child undernutrition in India. It looks at trends and disparities in these outcomes across geographical regions, socio-econom...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 This paper contributes to the empirical understanding of the concept of commitment and the role it plays in shaping India’s social policy implementation. Taking the case of the landmark policy, the Ma...
by Deepta Chopra | On 21 Jan 2016 In order to accelerate progress on undernutrition reduction we need to understand how the governance of nutrition programmes leads to successful outcomes. Based on evidence from six countries: Banglad...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 21 Jan 2016 Food consumption data are collected in most countries through a variety of household surveys. The primary objective of these surveys is usually to measure poverty, to derive consumption patterns neede...
by Lisa C. Smith | On 21 Jan 2016 The aim of this literature review is to examine the links between poverty and migration. Specifically, the paper investigates poverty and vulnerability as determinants of migration. Until recent years...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 Over one billion people around the world live with a disability. However, disability issues are not included in any of the Millennium Development Goals, targets or indicators, thereby representing a l...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 The relationship between poor sanitation, water borne disease, mortality and malnutrition is well documented. Statistics about the number of deaths due to diarrhea as well as stunting caused by malnut...
by Deepak Sanan | On 19 Jan 2016 The evidence on the link between agriculture and nutrition has so far been tenuous. On the one hand, undernutrition rates are severe and more widespread among those involved in agriculture. This evide...
by R V Bhavani | On 19 Jan 2016 Increasing coverage and maintaining infrastructure are two of the biggest challenges confronting the water supply sector in both industrialized and developing countries. The last two decades have witn...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper was prepared as part of the preparatory phase for the UNRISD research project on Political and Social Economy of Care. The overall aim of the project is to examine the way in which care is...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper examines the relationship between employment and social policy specifically from a gender perspective. It first lays out, in section 1, the conceptual ground, drawing on a range of heterodo...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This literature review identifies and summarises existing evidence on the determinants of undernutrition in children under the age of two years in Bangladesh. The review gathers evidence on the immedi...
by Stuart Gillespie | On 19 Jan 2016 The issue of Bangladeshi migration in India has become a major concern
for policy makers in recent years. Indeed, India’s eastern border is
facing major illegal activities viz. the influx of illegal...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper is organized in three main sections. The first section provides some definitions of the key terms and describes how both internal and international migration impact on development. An under...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed inte...
by Ngan Dinh | On 19 Jan 2016 The literature on decentralized public programs suggests that errors in the targeting of anti-poverty programs are rooted in the capture of these programs by local elites or local politicians. Consist...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper provides an overview of the inequities in health outcomes and their variation across regional, social, and economic groups. It seeks to explain these variations by focusing on health service...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 Anemia is defined as a reduction in the body’s red cell mass 1, reflected in a reduced oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. The World Health Organisation criterion for the diagnosis of anemia is a l...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The recent success of India and Bangladesh in settling the complicated issue of political enclaves in each other’s territories could be traced to the spirit displayed by the leaders of the two countri...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade dipl...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy
mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-lev...
by Tilman Brück | On 15 Jan 2016 This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we...
by Yves Zenou | On 14 Jan 2016 Eldis has brought together an editorially selected range of over 170 research resources from diverse perspectives and publishers. The theme focuses on gender equality and the role that both women and...
by E. Esplen | On 14 Jan 2016 It lies at the intersection of two major challenges: disaster, experienced by many of the rural poor as drought, flood and storms; and the continuing issue of gender imbalances in many aspects of soci...
by Janet Robinson | On 14 Jan 2016 This study examines the current state of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in health care in Punjab, and possibilities for new kinds of initiatives in this broad category of institutional arrangement...
by | On 14 Jan 2016 This learning brief synthesises lessons drawn from CARE’s Adaptation Learning Programme for Africa (ALP), which has been supporting vulnerable communities in sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to the impacts...
by Webb J. | On 13 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 The study of international organizations inevitably leads to consideration of the role of several that have been at the heart of international efforts to promote development after World War II, primar...
by David Malone | On 13 Jan 2016 Research and practice related to social policy and poverty alleviation have left a legacy of a very broad agenda of “things that need to be done”, along with important unanswered questions about how t...
by | On 13 Jan 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were introduced to monitor implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization based...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 13 Jan 2016 The focus of this report is on vulnerabilities in natural resources and rural livelihoods, which stand at the front line of climate change impact. The overarching objective of this report is to promot...
by World Bank [WB} | On 12 Jan 2016 Demographic dynamics have strong repercussions for development and need to be addressed in the definition of the global development strategy for post 2015. Despite divergent trends across countries, i...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Implementation of the Agenda 21 bifurcated into two tracks. While the economic and social development agenda gelled into the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the environmental protection agenda mo...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 This paper aims to test the validity of the hypothesis that climate change in the coming years is likely to induce massive migration to and from South Asia, both within and across the borders. This pa...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Rural Road connectivity is a key component of rural development by promoting access to economic services and thereby generating increased agricultural incomes and productive employment opportunities i...
by Ministry of Rural Development Government of India | On 11 Jan 2016 While the unpublished findings of the ‘Caste Census’ in India might not receive serious attention if ever made public, some of the socio-economic data, made available by the same Census, can set the m...
by Ronojoy Sen | On 10 Jan 2016 UNCTAD, in past LDC Reports, has taken the view that the key to sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in LDCs is the development of productive capacities and related creation of productive e...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper analyses the select Communiqués and Declarations pertaining to social sectors issued from time to time. In this context, it evaluates the status and performance of social development in each...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, we evaluate India’s flagship rural employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), by answering questions such as whether the MG...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper throws light on the view that the Indian state has been one that has been perpetrated by injustice irrespective of a series of ground-breaking legislative acts that enshrine a number of soci...
by John Harriss | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, the aim is to survey the findings of village studies that have been accomplished over the last two decades the era of economic liberalisation in India together with those of larger-scal...
by J. Jeyaranjan | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the ‘BCIM Regional Cooperation’ and the related proposal to revive the ‘Southern Silk Route’ connecting China and India through Bangladesh and Myanmar. The aim is to understand the...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, we evaluate India’s flagship rural employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), by answering questions such as whether the MG...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 09 Jan 2016 This monograph tries to analyse the nature of poverty in India in its various dimensions, particularly emphasising its social underpinnings, and Government initiatives to alleviate rural poverty. It d...
by Neepa Saha | On 08 Jan 2016 The study of geography of poverty and peoples’ changing livelihood and their relation with globalization are some of the major areas of geographic research in the present context (Subedi, 2005). So, P...
by Basant Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Land is regarded as an important source of livelihoods to many people, especially rural people. For those people, access to and control over land resources is the source of livelihoods. Therefore, lan...
by Samana Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 The general objective of this study is to analyse the urban poverty issue from the livelihood and vulnerability perspective in Jagritinagar squatter settlement of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. The spec...
by Rajip Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 The rural household livelihood and children’s educational investment decisions are analyzed in a post-conflict setting located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. The study represents...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next...
by Fan Zhai | On 07 Jan 2016 Half of the world’s population — 3 billion people — lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great...
by Anbumozhi Venkatachalam | On 07 Jan 2016 The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied...
by Kanhu Pradhan | On 05 Jan 2016 This article explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries: China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Levels of internal...
by | On 05 Jan 2016 Although some governments acknowledge the existence of slums and informal settlements, many do not. This lack of recognition and subsequent response directly undermines city-wide sustainable developme...
by | On 05 Jan 2016 Review of The Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India’s Future
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by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Jan 2016 One of the most important ways in which several of the common developmental challenges in South Asia could be addressed is by focusing on manufacturing. This paper highlights insights from the status...
by Ram Das | On 02 Jan 2016 Economic growth averaging 5.8% since 2010 has helped to lift 3.3 million Indonesians out of poverty. Yet 28 million were still living below the government’s poverty line in March 2014. Indonesia’s nat...
by Priasto Aji Aji | On 01 Jan 2016 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Kefei You | On 01 Jan 2016 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper discusses how endogenous mechanisms linking processes of violent conflict and the economic well-being of individuals and households in combat areas provide valuable micro foundations to the...
by Patricia Justino | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper assesses the usefulness of a new emerging body of work on the micro-level analysis of conflict and violence in advancing our current understanding of the relationship between violent confli...
by Patricia Justino | On 30 Dec 2015 Structural change has a far-reaching impact on inequality. Extensive structural change is both a cause and consequence of the exceptionally rapid economic growth, which enabled developing Asia to rais...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Dec 2015 Clearly, the monograph addresses a set of critical issues related to the forest rights and livelihood and makes a sincere effort to draw attention to the plight of forest dependent communities. Policy...
by Tapas Kumar Sarangi | On 30 Dec 2015 Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 This report presents lessons and results of specific relevance to shaping the post-2015 development framework derived from 20 Joint Programmes supported by the MDGF. These studies contain lessons to e...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) represents one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic regional communities. This report identifies some of the key trends and critical issues for the Indian Oc...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated par...
by Duangkamon Chotikapanich | On 24 Dec 2015 Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and...
by Mustafizur Rahman | On 23 Dec 2015 The objective of this study is to explore the inflation-economic growth linkage, if any, in Bangladesh. With this view, various tables and charts, correlation matrices, pair-wise Granger Causality tes...
by Sayera Younus | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper examines whether an increase in women’s time in agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to poorer nutriti...
by SOPHIE THEIS | On 22 Dec 2015 Building productive capacities and promoting sustainable industrialization have an important role to play across the spectrum of the integrated 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda reco...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UN | On 22 Dec 2015 Rising income inequality is often the cause of social and political unrest and is damaging to our future economic well-being. Yet while it is clear that economic growth must also deliver improvements...
by Margareta Drzeniek | On 21 Dec 2015 Highlights lessons learned from implementing development schemes and policies, which have incorporated adaptation due to the increasing incidence of extreme weather events.
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The focus is on South Asia and the starting point of inquiry is on 33 projects that illustrate the roles and forms of NGO and CBO engagement in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The rep...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 Countries like South Africa and India are putting new mental health policies in place. There is now a clear agenda of “what to deliver” to make this deplorable reality better, and indeed a nascent adv...
by Victoria Menil | On 19 Dec 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine whether Real Exchange Rate (RER)depreciation has any impact on export, import and trade balance of Bangladesh.
Real exchange rate is calculated using Tk./do...
by Maidul Chowdhury | On 19 Dec 2015 The question of what keeps people mired in poverty is one of great importance to policy-makers and economists alike. The world’s poor typically lack both capital and skills, and each of these two fact...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 The world’s poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 18 Dec 2015 This brief describes key findings from a rigorous seven-year evaluation of the first of these livelihood programmes, BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra-Poor’ programme in rural Bangladesh. Targeted household...
by Clare Balboni | On 18 Dec 2015 This study places special attention on evaluating constitutional provisions that affect IDPs, on legislation pertaining to displacement, and the National Legal Framework for Relief, Rehabilitation, an...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper assesses the emphasis of the literature on different agriculture–nutrition pathways in Bangladesh. More research is needed on the links between agriculture and nutrition in country-specific...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, but also growing concern. Migrants are often blamed for increasing urban poverty, but not all migrants are poor. In many cities, however, migr...
by David Satterthwaite | On 17 Dec 2015 Food security and nutrition is a major global challenge. SDC’s Global Programme Food Security(GPFS) represents an innovative initiative of Switzerland in addressing food security and nutrition challen...
by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper examines how parental migration affects children’s health and education outcomes. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China data we are able to measure the share of children’s lifetim...
by Xin Meng | On 17 Dec 2015 Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum w...
by Richard Burkhauser | On 16 Dec 2015 As political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hun...
by Rajith Lakshman | On 16 Dec 2015 The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a nu...
by Ahmed F. | On 16 Dec 2015 The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a nu...
by Barnett I. | On 16 Dec 2015 Research around the world has demonstrated the important role that education plays in the empowerment of girls and women. Providing girls with a quality education can help prevent early marriage, prev...
by Musammat Badrunnesha | On 16 Dec 2015 In this policy paper, Vanda Felbab-Brown explores the relationship between conflict,
peace dynamics, and drugs and other illicit economies in Thailand and
Myanmar/Burma since the 1960s through...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 16 Dec 2015 The objective of this study is to examine the characteristics of the stock market bubble burst in Bangladesh and policy response for the sample period from 2004:7-2013:2. This paper also discusses the...
by Dr. Sayera Younus | On 15 Dec 2015 This paper discusses the current status of financial inclusion, education, and regulation in the Philippines and measures to foster financial inclusion. The primary policy challenge faced by the gover...
by Gilberto M. Llanto | On 15 Dec 2015 The key challenge is to develop a policy that facilitates the adaptive capacity of migration rather than inhibiting it. Such an endeavour and subsequent shift in policy where it is sub-optimal is impe...
by Richard Black | On 15 Dec 2015 From a human development perspective, work, rather than jobs oremployment is the relevant concept. A job is a narrow concept with a set of pre-determined time-bound assigned tasks or activities, in an...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 15 Dec 2015 This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive cap...
by | On 14 Dec 2015 The current size of the income-secure middle class and its likely future growth, suggest that optimism is indeed warranted for many of today’s middle-income countries. But it is not warranted for all...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 14 Dec 2015 In this paper, documents a positive spillover effect of BRAC schools on female secondary enrollment in registered madrasas. Drawing upon school enrollment data aggregated at the region level, It first...
by Mohammad Niaz Asadullah | On 11 Dec 2015 The purpose of this manual is to collaborate with grass-roots organizations, in particular with NGOs, in defining the content of economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) and to empower the ac...
by Maritza Formisano Prada | On 10 Dec 2015 This paper critically examines how lease farming can be a viable livelihood option for landless rural poor, especially women in India. In the absence of land ownership and education, the majority of l...
by | On 08 Dec 2015 Rapid urbanization together with climate change is emerging as the most challenging issue of the twenty-first century. As the region with the highest percentage increase in urban population over the l...
by UN-HABITAT UNHABITAT | On 07 Dec 2015 If the global commitment to eradicate inequality for all people is truly unequivocal, as leaders claim it to be, the implementation of these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to take into acc...
by | On 03 Dec 2015 Almost a sixth of the world’s population and a large fraction of its poorest people live in India. Until recently, national poverty estimates were widely criticized because they relied on aggregate pr...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to...
by Kathryn Sproule | On 02 Dec 2015 The paper examines educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962-1991. We find that educational persistence, as measured by the regression co...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper reports and models the discrepancy between the full bidding and endow and upgrade findings from a willingness-to-pay (WTP) elicitation Becker-Degroot-Marschak (BDM) experiment for an improv...
by Banerji A | On 30 Nov 2015 The development and utilization of renewable energy sources has been accorded high priority by the Government of India. The policies and programmes implemented by the Ministry of New and Renewable Ene...
by | On 27 Nov 2015 LPG and Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO), are not only important sources of fuel, but also commodities whose price is subsidized to benefit the people of Bhutan. Therefore, it is important to ensure smooth...
by National Council Economic Affairs Committee | On 27 Nov 2015 This study aims to examine how ‘open’ Indian states are with respect to international trade and uses the index of regional openness thus constructed to reflect on several aspects that affect the level...
by | On 19 Nov 2015 This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools)....
by Zaki Wahhaj | On 16 Nov 2015 The paper examines the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor...
by | On 16 Nov 2015 While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are
a number of challenges ahead. The paper discusses three sets of problems: (i) how to allow for
social...
by Martin Ravallion | On 16 Nov 2015 The documents states the Government's policy on Transgenders (TGs) its goals, objectives, approaches, implementation processes and highlights selected area of focus in Kerala' s socio-economic context...
by Social Justice Department Kerala | On 13 Nov 2015 Child labour is a complex problem rooted in poverty, illiteracy and social inequality. The National Child Labour Policy has identified ‘focusing of general development programmes for benefiting child...
by Helen Sekar | On 10 Nov 2015 This paper introduces a model for generating national estimates and projections of the distribution of the employed across five economic classes for 142 developing countries over the period 1991 to 20...
by | On 10 Nov 2015 Agriculture and food security should be viewed in the context of the broader economic transformation in Asia and the Pacific. In particular, the adoption of food security policies that address both im...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Nov 2015 Although Bangladesh has achieved fairly steady economic growth, as of 2011, almost half of its population still lived in extreme poverty. As a result, the Government of Bangladesh and its development...
by Nayma Qayum | On 09 Nov 2015 This study aimed to evaluate the Multipurpose Learning Centres or Gonokendros (GK) operated by BRAC jointly with the local community in rural areas of Bangladesh. Two main goals were process evaluatio...
by | On 09 Nov 2015 Angus Deaton’s contributions to economics have been seminal providing development economists with new tools of analysis that have yielded policy-altering insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 07 Nov 2015 This paper provides an assessment of the interventions in reforming the
drinking water and sanitation sector in Gujarat as through the Water and
Sanitation Management Organisation (WASMO) from a sup...
by Keshab Das | On 06 Nov 2015 This paper primarily aims to capture the changing patterns of consumption expenditure of three broad classes, namely, the ‘upper’ ‘middle’ and ‘bottom’ classes in the rural and urban India. In contras...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 Given the importance of securing women’s rights to land as India grows and develops and recognizing the dearth of available data to guide the design of gender-sensitive interventions, this study provi...
by | On 04 Nov 2015 Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in the country following the failure of the
Universal PDS to serve below the poverty line and poorest of the poor households.It is being
implemente...
by T Jayan | On 04 Nov 2015 IFPRI and India’s partnership played a particularly important role following the Green Revolution when that partnership analyzed the necessary policies to both promote domestic food production and to...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 03 Nov 2015 This paper reports some initial findings of a study of how migrants in India and Bangladesh and the household members that stay behind reduce the insecurities they face (including hunger, debt, ill-he...
by | On 02 Nov 2015 Drawing on data from population censuses and recent household surveys for India and Ghana, this paper demonstrates the importance of internal migration in comparison to international migration, showin...
by | On 02 Nov 2015 The paper argues that both the income/expenditure and nutritional measures of poverty suffer with their own limitations. However, for both conceptual and practical considerations, the income/expenditu...
by | On 30 Oct 2015 This study measures the nutritional status (using Body Mass Index or BMI) of TB patients before, at two months, and after completion of TB treatment (DOTS) to study the changes during treatment and it...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 29 Oct 2015 This study aims to identify the barriers leading to low consumption of
animal foods by children aged 6-23 months in A & T intervention areas; and to assesstheir knowledge and practices of dietary int...
by Umme Salma Mukta | On 29 Oct 2015 Water, sanitation and hygiene services are central to addressing poverty, livelihoods and health. They are also critical in addressing the needs of poor communities and in achieving the Millennium Dev...
by M.V. Ramachandrudu | On 29 Oct 2015 This paper explores the degree to which exposure to reoccurring natural disasters of various kinds explains seven dimensions of severe child poverty in 67 middle- and low-income countries. It also ana...
by Adel Daoud | On 28 Oct 2015 It is evident that the poor, especially women and children are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of their limited adaptive capacity. In such circumstances, BRAC Disaster, Envi...
by Tahera Akter | On 26 Oct 2015 This paper empirically examines the relation between economic growth and poverty alleviation for the case of India. We provide evidence that higher growth rates were associated with faster decline in...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 26 Oct 2015 This study compares the levels of development of the social and physical infrastructure in India with those in other major emerging countries as well as developed countries. The study finds that India...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 26 Oct 2015 Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. People are getting educated at different levels on how to deal with potential impacts. One such educational mode was the preparati...
by | On 21 Oct 2015 This report provides an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds national and state governments to e...
by Harsh Mander | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper documents the pervasiveness of women’s lack of income security in old age across a large number of countries, but also points to a number of important policy measures that can be taken to a...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This is an analytical narrative about post-conflict dynamics of poverty in a block of villages in north Bihar known as ‘the Mushahari Project’. It is related with the socio-economic and political cons...
by Anand Kumar | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and incre...
by Samik Chowdhury | On 20 Oct 2015 Even after a hundred years of child labour legislation and fifty years of independence, child labour is a common occurrence in India. Today, their numbers exceed those of any other country. The urgent...
by | On 19 Oct 2015 This paper reviews the literature on migration in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, East Africa and West Africa in order to highlight the complexity of migration patterns and impacts. It is...
by Tasneem Siddiqui | On 19 Oct 2015 This article uses Pakistan’s 2010 floods to identify the
effects of a natural disaster on citizens’ aspirations. Aspirations were significantly reduced—especially
among the poorest and most vulnerab...
by Katrina Kosec | On 19 Oct 2015 This case study documents key gender equality issues as well as key achievements and lessons from a project carried out in post conflict Sri Lanka as part of urgently needed reconstruction. The Improv...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Oct 2015 This publication is the result of UNESCO Bangkok’s project in cooperation with Educate A Child (EAC) which seeks to eradicate obstacles, both in policy and practice, that would prevent children in Sou...
by Save Children | On 15 Oct 2015 This report looks in depth at the factors within each country that will support or impede implementation. A set of Dialogues has been exploring these factors and are still capturing ideas around these...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 More than 850 million people in developing countries are excluded from a wide range of information and knowledge, with the rural poor in
particular remaining isolated from both traditional media and...
by | On 14 Oct 2015 Bihar has lowest per capita income amongst the major states of India and high rate of persistent poverty with social structure fragmented based on caste lines. Therefore present study has been underta...
by | On 14 Oct 2015 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper focuses on the economic activity and the work status of men, women and children in rural Bihar. It uses data from surveys carried out in 36 villages under the research programme, Aiming at...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted in 2000 a set of “Millennium Development Goals” the first of which is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, more specifically to “reduce by half,...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 India is the world’s second largest country in terms of total inhabitants. Further, out of a total population exceeding one billion, approximately 120 million are women living in poverty. India is one...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 The paper focuses on within-country inequalities. It discusses in particular how the consequences of inequality are shaped by specific mechanisms that operate at the national, community and individual...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper tries to assess the impact of coping strategies on household welfare. The paper tries to identify the components of vulnerability to better focus policy. India, particularly rural India, h...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 12 Oct 2015 This document presents a summary of the initial findings from a research
programme on inclusive growth in Bihar, carried out by the Institute
for Human Development, New Delhi. The study aims to unde...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 This paper on Urban Poverty in Asia looks at the different dimensions of poverty in Asia, both income and nonincome, its two main regions, including a brief account of who and what class of people are...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Oct 2015 The 2015-16 Global Monitoring Report, produced jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impa...
by International Monetary Fund [IMF] | On 09 Oct 2015 BRAC WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) programme aims to facilitate, in partnership with the government of Bangladesh and other stakeholders, the attainment of the targets of UN Millennium Developm...
by Nepal C Dey | On 09 Oct 2015 This paper explores the role of social networks in the migration process in Bangladesh. Migration can be costly and can also involve considerable risks around finding adequate housing and employment....
by | On 08 Oct 2015 The term “East-West divide” as a way of describing regional disparity in Bangladesh has emerged in the policy discourse only in the 2000s. The administrative divisions belonging to the western part of...
by | On 08 Oct 2015 This year’s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established hunger targets and reflects on what needs to be done, as...
by Food and Agriculture Organization | On 07 Oct 2015 The middle class plays a critical role in the development of a country. It is not only expected to create employment as business start-ups but also to boost investment and production as consumers. Thi...
by Martin Joseph M. Raymundo | On 07 Oct 2015 The practice of sharing sanitation facilities does not meet the current World Health Organization/UNICEF definition for what is considered improved sanitation. Recommendations have been made to catego...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 Roughly 40 percent of the world’s poor live in South Asia, where poverty is basically a rural problem. Therefore, a significant gain in rural poverty reduction in this sub-region will be crucial to re...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper, highlights the need for provisioning adequate social protection coverage to the vulnerable sections of population in urban India, assesses the role of the TPDS in reaching out to the depri...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 28 Sep 2015 This paper tries to identify food insecure population of the country, analyse the availability, storage, procurement of food grain , assess the effectiveness of PDS, identify the discrepancies in the...
by Ishita Aditya Ray | On 28 Sep 2015 This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. It recognises that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions...
by United Nations UN | On 28 Sep 2015 The objective of the mission was to evaluate the impact of the power plant on the livelihoods of the people and ecology of the region, examine the legal framework governing its and assess if the propo...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 28 Sep 2015 This study explores the inter-generational effects of health shocks using longitudinal data of Young Lives project conducted in the southern state of India, Andhra Pradesh for two cohorts of children...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 25 Sep 2015 Urbanization provides South Asian countries with the potential to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations in both prosperity and livability, but a new World Bank report finds the...
by World Bank | On 25 Sep 2015 Despite the fact that the number of internal migrants globally is at least 740 million, nearly four times the number of international migrants, there is hardly any discussion on internal remittances a...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 A green economy is necessary if sustainable development is to be realized. However, as this report emphasizes, a green economy can also, if accompanied by the right policy mix, create more and better...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors tha...
by United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-Habitat | On 23 Sep 2015 Is democracy in Bangladesh on a reverse course? Is there a culture of intolerance being engendered by deliberate design? Will creeping extremisms create an inevitable schism within the nation? The pap...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 Manufacturing has historically offered the fastest path out of poverty, but there is mounting evidence that this path may be all but closed to developing countries today. Some have suggested that ser...
by Amrit Amirapu | On 23 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Given the ubiquity of mobile phones, their use to support healthcare in the Indian context is inevitable. It is however necessary to assess end-user perceptions regarding mobile health interventions e...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Rural Health is one of vital elements of rural life. India being a nation of villages requires an intensive approach towards rural health. Nearly 75 per cent of health infrastructure and other health...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 This paper reviews the literature on the performance of commonly found social safety net programs in developing countries. The evidence suggests that universal food subsidies have very limited potenti...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper focuses on the nature and characteristics of unemployment using the five-yearly surveys of the NSSO. The dominant narrative in the literature has been that the rate of unemployment, whichev...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 In this paper results are analysed from a field experiment exploring the response of poor households in China to food price subsidies. Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price cont...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper measures the percolation of food subsidy expenditures to the poor. The paper proposes a metric that takes into account the depth and width of income transfer. The metric is applied to food...
by Shikha Jha | On 18 Sep 2015 Conventional growth models incorporate capital but not labour as the determining variable. An alternative way to look at growth is to treat it a function of growth of employment and productivity: grow...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 Despite widespread investments in child poverty reduction, the way in which child poverty is measured presents a narrow and partial picture. Current practice is still biased towards measuring static a...
by | On 17 Sep 2015 This paper tries to map some of the major debates exploring the 'elephant‘ of India‘s failure to end hunger and malnutrition. The authors identify five main hurdles towards addressing the issue of hun...
by | On 17 Sep 2015 As stress on Indian agriculture increases because of several reasons, such as continuous fragmentation of landholdings and climate change, there is a serious threat to livelihood based on farming. Thi...
by Digvijay S. Negi | On 17 Sep 2015 Categories that capture the Indian sub-continent-origin population – ‘Indian’, ‘Pakistani’, ‘Bangladeshi’ – have been included on all the British census forms (1991, 2001, 2011) that have asked about...
by | On 17 Sep 2015 The paper addresses the issue of growth and development by looking at evidence from six country case studies to assess how to enhance the employment impact of social protection programmes by improving...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 16 Sep 2015 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu...
by Valerie Mueller | On 16 Sep 2015 This paper analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to cri...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 This paper examines, in particular, the effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) programme on employment, wages and incomes of the rural poor. It also considers its effect on...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 Traditional assessments of progress against poverty put no explicit weight on increasing the standard of living of the poorest—raising the consumption floor. Yet this is often emphasized by policy mak...
by Martin Ravallion | On 14 Sep 2015 The paper seeks to mainstream a gender perspective in the Jawaharlal National Rural Urban Renewal Mission through a set of guidelines for integrating gender issues in the urban renewal and reform agen...
by | On 11 Sep 2015 The possibility of developing regional production networks in specific sectors
between nations of South Asia has been explored in this paper. The case
of the leather and leather goods cluster in T...
by Keshab Das | On 11 Sep 2015 There have been numerous investigations in recent years to determine the incidence and prevalence of modern slavery worldwide, and debt bondage in India has been found to be the most extensive form of...
by Sarah Knight | On 10 Sep 2015 Human trafficking is a large and growing problem, and sex trafficking is a particularly egregious form of contemporary enslavement of the most vulnerable: women and children. Yet a decade of anti-traf...
by Aditee Maskey | On 10 Sep 2015 The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matricu...
by Fan Li | On 09 Sep 2015 More than half of Rural Maharashtra defecates in the open. The main issue to understand is the nexus between the access to water and adoption of sanitation practices. It is also interesting to underst...
by Parliamentarian's Group for Children PGC | On 09 Sep 2015 Problems and challenges faced by the rural labour in India are many both in terms of their magnitude and impact on the rural economy in general and rural labourers in particular. The magnitude and the...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 Problems and challenges faced by the rural labour in India are many both in terms of their magnitude and impact on the rural economy in general and rural labourers in particular. The magnitude and the...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 This report contains nutrition profiles for 24 countries. This report shows that an estimated 195 million children under age 5 in developing countries suffer from stunting, a consequence of chronic nu...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 08 Sep 2015 India’s Eleventh (2007-2011/12) and the Twelfth Five-Year Plans (2012/13-2017/18) have emerged as being distinct from the earlier Five-Year Plans in so far as these Plans had the goal of inclusiveness...
by | On 08 Sep 2015 The report explores how climate change has become one of the major challenges to the enjoyment of the basic rights to life, food, health, water, housing and self-determination in one of the World's mo...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 This paper takes a look at the efforts made by the Government of India since the enactment of the Act to improve the relevance of minimum wages, its impact in bringing the workers out of the poverty l...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 This brief provides an overview of civil society in Myanmar. With a view to strengthening ADB cooperation with civil society organizations, the NGO and Civil Society Center periodically prepares repor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Sep 2015 This paper explores why migrants at their destination fare better than nonmigrants, across different socio-economic classes in India, while the general perception of migrants is that they are less end...
by Vamsi Vakulabharanam | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper offers a ctitical understanding of the policy approaches for rural industrialization by underscoring inadequate understanding of the dynamics understanding of the dynamics or specificities...
by Keshab Das | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper analyses the nexus between growth, employment and poverty and points out situations where high economic growth may fail to bring about a commensurate rate of poverty reduction if simultaneo...
by | On 02 Sep 2015 This paper examines the links between gender equality and rural employment for poverty reduction by constructing a gender analytical framework to interpret differentiated patterns and conditions of wo...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 02 Sep 2015 This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running...
by Naila Kabeer | On 01 Sep 2015 To elicit the public’s views on health system issues, the study conducted an opinion poll survey in Bangladesh, Mongolia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study focused on health inequalities. The results sh...
by Bhatia Mrigesh | On 01 Sep 2015 Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resou...
by Tony Addison | On 01 Sep 2015 Over the last decade, the landscape of Bangladesh has changed remarkably. Persistent mobility of people questions existing development strategies, which are largely based on sectoral approaches
that...
by Rita Afsar | On 31 Aug 2015 The present study attempts to examine the role of specialist services in rural public health system of India in the areas of maternal and child healthcare. The study uses primary data collected throug...
by Shreekant Iyengar | On 31 Aug 2015 This paper from a two-day conference in New Delhi explores the relevance of CCTs in addressing entrenched issues of urban poverty even as across Asia there remain few social protection measures that p...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 31 Aug 2015 This paper highlights a strategic framework to eradicate rural poverty by 2015 with the rural household as the central unit. It is based on the premise that the livelihoods of rural households depend...
by Ministry of Rural Development Government of India | On 31 Aug 2015 This report focuses on three main issues – gender equality, maternal health and slums – which provide clear examples of how the MDGs and the targets set fall short of international human rights standa...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 This report presents the industrial cluster development policy of the Republic of Korea and draws lessons from that experience for South Asia. It briefly reviews Korean industrial policy since the 196...
by Jong-il Kim | On 31 Aug 2015 If there is one thing the Census 2011 shows, it's that India will remain overwhelmingly Hindu forever
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Aug 2015 This study aims to shed light on the industry that profits from the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work employment in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Banglad...
by Katharine Jones | On 27 Aug 2015 The report takes into account present scenario of urban poverty in India. Incidence of urban poverty can be attributed to lack of development as also to the nature and pattern of development. Importa...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 Thousands of madrassas in Pakistan remain completely unregulated by the government and their sources of funding unknown while many more thousands offer an education to their students with bleak employ...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 Poverty reduction and economic growth can be sustained only if natural resources are managed on a sustainable basis. Greening rural development can stimulate rural economies, create jobs and help main...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 24 Aug 2015 This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken by IIED in partnership with Plan International on urban children’s risk and agency in four large Asian cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nep...
by | On 24 Aug 2015 Building livelihoods and assets for the poorest of poor (PoP) has been an area of serious concern for development practitioners the world over. This is an even bigger challenge for India as the poores...
by Ranu Bhogal | On 24 Aug 2015 Aquaculture has grown in leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades in Bangladesh. This is welcomed by most as increasing fish production is expected to contribute to enhancing food security in a...
by Kazi Ali Toufique | On 21 Aug 2015 Although high rate of economic growth is necessary condition for rapid poverty reduction on a sustained basis, this is not a sufficient condition, and the relationship between economic growth and pove...
by Rizwanul Islam | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper analyses an overview of china human development in Time and Space. The paper covers themes like regional inequality in China Since 1952 and Urban-Rural Inequality, 1980-2000. The paper is a...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 The research draws on interviews with rural-urban migrant construction workers in Kathmandu as well as with families of construction workers, other migrant labourers and non-migrants in two contrastin...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 One of the well-known barriers to development is persistence of disadvantage among communities. The lack of occupational and therefore upward social mobility continues to restrain households from achi...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 19 Aug 2015 This study attempts to examine children's attitude to school and their experience of school, performance of children, mathematical ability of teachers and classroom process, as all these have bearing...
by | On 19 Aug 2015 In a period not longer than 10 years (2002 – to present), 13 provinces at the common border of Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV Development Triangle) have cooperated for common development and achieved a lo...
by Hoang Thi My Nhi | On 19 Aug 2015 The paper analyses the potential opportunities between Bangladesh and Myanmar stemming from sub-regional cooperation. The paper examines Myanmar’s integration into the regional and global economy toge...
by Debapriya Bhattacharya | On 18 Aug 2015 The International Labour Organization reports on the increasingly insecure nature of job tenures worldwide. The World Employment and Social Outlook 2015 finds that, among countries with available data...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 This report of the steering committee on rapid poverty reduction and local area development for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012). The first section attempts to examine the data on the poor, the...
by Planning Commission, India | On 14 Aug 2015 This report examines changes in the lives of rural households and in the rural economy against the backdrop of changes brought about by the programme. This research report addresses such challenging q...
by Sonalde Desai | On 13 Aug 2015 This paper argues that mainstreaming SMEs and SE into various international treaties will require the assumption of positive externalities which markets cannot fully evaluate. To show this, the possib...
by Leonardo Lanzona | On 12 Aug 2015 Through a case study of Mumbai city and LC resettlement colony, this paper highlights the tribulations of the poor in urban space. The experiences of recurring and multiple marginalities and vulnerabi...
by Manish K Jha | On 11 Aug 2015 This working paper embodies the results of trade and transport facilitation audit which was carried out in the Bangladesh context, as part of a South Asian regional study.The study documents the major...
by Naimul Saif | On 11 Aug 2015 This
paper is an attempt to know the equilibrium exchange rate of Taka to measure exchange rate misalignment. To estimate
the equilibrium real exchange rate we use macroeconomic balance approach, wh...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 11 Aug 2015 Subjective well-being has attracted sharply increasing attention among researchers and policy makers in recent years. The public also pays a lot of attention to it, evidenced by the heavy use of the w...
by | On 06 Aug 2015 The MDG Report 2015 found that the 15-year effort to achieve the eight aspirational goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 was largely successful across the globe, while acknowledging sho...
by United Nations UN | On 05 Aug 2015 Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by several economists, especially Pritchett (1996). His empirica...
by Gazi Mahabubul Alam | On 03 Aug 2015 This report is by the National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India is part of the series on household consumer expenditure on utilisation of...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 31 Jul 2015 Th is paper reassesses national income inequalities in this era of globalization. Th e main conclusion is that two opposite forces are at work: one ‘centrifugal’ at the two extremes of the distributio...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 Poverty and environmental factors are interlinked and hold crucial importance for economic development. The poor depend so much on their natural resource base and primary production sources that the d...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This Policy note on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is central to the attainment of the overarching goal of enabling poor rural women and men to improve their food security and nutrition, rais...
by International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD | On 29 Jul 2015 This paper examines, in particular, the effects on educational mobility of a well-known maternal and child health and family planning program in Matlab Bangladesh. Results suggest that the program res...
by Andrew Foster | On 29 Jul 2015 This study aims to provide a mid-term appraisal of the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12), focusing on the performance of flagship programmes in Tamil Nadu. In this paper, a brief note on the Eleventh...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 27 Jul 2015 Economic mobility is a significant consequence of income inequality and growth. In this paper, authors have used a unique ARIS/ REDS surveys data set for rural India spanning three decades to determin...
by Kailash Chandra Pradhan | On 21 Jul 2015 This report documents the state of the social safety net agenda in low- and middle-income countries. In recent years, a true policy revolution has been under way. Th e statistics in this report captur...
by World Bank | On 20 Jul 2015 Child labor (CL) has been a major concern for the developing world, especially for India with its goal towards ‘inclusive growth’. However, impact (or vulnerabilities) of major domestic or external sp...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 16 Jul 2015 Analysis of the long term effects of social and public health programs using household survey data requires an understanding of patterns of household recombination–that is the processes by which house...
by Andrew Foster | On 16 Jul 2015 In this study an attempt has been made to disentangle the child employment and schooling tradeoff with perspective to understand the effect of income deprivation measures and other non-income factors...
by Saman Nazir | On 15 Jul 2015 "International public health hazards: Indian legislative provisions" presents an outline of the provisions in the Indian legal system which may enable the implementation of IHR in the country. Interna...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 15 Jul 2015 In 2000 the Member States of the United Nations signed
the Millennium Declaration, which later gave rise to the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Goal 7, to ensure
environmental sustainability,...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 15 Jul 2015 The impact of urbanization on growth and equality, and on urban and rural poverty are well-documented but do not discuss alternative models of urbanization.
While the relationship between urbanizat...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Jul 2015 In two years since Rana Plaza collapsed, considerable progress has been made towards creating a safer ready made garment sector for Bangladesh. This ILO publication looks at what has been achieved and...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 10 Jul 2015 Urbanisation and urban growth have accelerated in many developing countries in the past few years. While natural population growth has been the major contributor to urbanisation, rural-urban migration...
by Rachel Masika | On 10 Jul 2015 The data and analysis presented in this report prove that, with targeted interventions, sound strategies, adequate resources and political will,
even the poorest countries can make dramatic and unpre...
by United Nations UN | On 08 Jul 2015 The study is an attempt to bring to the fore a Commons perspective of agriculture, livestock and rural livelihoods in the dryland and tribal areas of India. Would agriculture, livestock and rural live...
by Foundation for Ecological Security FES | On 07 Jul 2015 This Policy Brief utilizes the concept of value chain management as the basis of improving the competitive advantage of the rice sector for
promoting food security in Bangladesh. For analyzing the is...
by | On 02 Jul 2015 This report is an outcome of the field study conducted to assess the rural water supply schemes In rural Maharashtra. The aims of the study are to understand the water supply systems and their functio...
by S. Ramesh Sakthivel | On 26 Jun 2015 There are an estimated 750 million internal migrants in the world, yet the effects of access to internal migration for rural households are not well understood. Internal migrants may provide wealth tr...
by Cynthia Kinnan | On 25 Jun 2015 Street vending and urban space for micro enterprises constitute an important policy theme that needs to be advanced further in development literature and policy. In many countries, urban space tends t...
by Kyoko Kusakabe | On 24 Jun 2015 This technical paper provides evidence-based estimates of the likelihood of disaster-induced displacement in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It att...
by Justin Ginnetti | On 24 Jun 2015 Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, strong inequalities persist and children pay a heavy price. This publication examines latest trends and data on children in the eight countries of the regi...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 24 Jun 2015 A child’s chance to survive and thrive is much greater in 2015 than it was when the global community committed to the MDGs in 2000. Data show significant progress in areas such as child survival, nutr...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 24 Jun 2015 This review of the published academic literature on internal and regional migration for domestic work shows a dearth of studies on internal migration for domestic work in South Asia. The existing lite...
by Priya Deshingkar | On 23 Jun 2015 For most street vendors, trading from the pavements is full of uncertainties. They are constantly harassed by the authorities. The local bodies conduct eviction drives to clear the pavements of these...
by Sharit Bhowmik | On 22 Jun 2015 This paper calculates select urban inequality and poverty indices and finds out their policy linkages. In addition, the determinants of urban poverty and inequality are estimated by using data of 52 l...
by | On 22 Jun 2015 The statement discusses the need of development of a competent and accountable public service by attracting, developing, engaging and managing an efficient and innovative organizational, functional an...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 The statement aims to stand firmly as an independent institution and to conduct every election honestly, fairly and transparency and in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the country. The st...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 The present Report offers suggestions for the consideration of the Government of India, based on the UN Millennium Goals for Poverty Eradication, as well as on the principle that trade should strength...
by | On 17 Jun 2015 Statement aims to establish good governance by coordinating activities of different ministries & divisions and supervising activities of field administration in pursuing government policy and strategy...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The statement aims to build a knowledge-based and digital Bangladesh and to advance the socio-economic conditions of all sections of the nation, through the establishment of good governance in the all...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The data generated by the Budgeting Information System has been used to prepare this report which put forward the following major findings- Up to April FY11, 80.2% of the Revenue target of the budget...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 This overview brings together major findings and crosscutting issues
in the “country situation reports” from Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka respectively, which were commissioned
b...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 15 Jun 2015 The problem of child labour is a socio-economic reality of Bangladesh. This issue is enormous and cannot be ignored. This study indicates the child labour increase in a developing country like Banglad...
by | On 12 Jun 2015 Budgetary speech presents an outline of the the Budget Implementation Progress report for FY 2010-11. The speech discuss briefly budget framework of bangladesh government and also analyse macroeconomi...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 12 Jun 2015 Budget FY11 contains Speech of the Bangladesh Finance Minister on the implementation status and macroeconomic analysis up to second quarter (July-December).
by | On 12 Jun 2015 Compulsory education has a vital role to play in eradicating child labour. Getting children out of work and into school could provide an impetus for poverty reduction and the development of skills nee...
by Gordon Brown | On 12 Jun 2015 The Government’s main budgetary objective is to allocate fiscal resources in line with Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS). In this way, it will be assured that resources are allocated to...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 By investigating the educational expenditure of children over the ten years (2000 to 2010), it evaluates whether there exists any gender specific discrepancy at the household level and the trend of su...
by Abu S. Shonchoy | On 10 Jun 2015 It is proposed in this study that the development experience in Kerala has resulted ultimately in weakening the material basis of public action. On limited evidence it is pointed out that the poor in...
by P.K.Michael Tharakan | On 10 Jun 2015 India continues to have among the lowest public health budgets in the world at just over 1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it gets reflected in the performance of the public healthcare delivery s...
by Oommen C. Kurian | On 08 Jun 2015 Attempts have been made to arrive at a comprehensive settlement of the land boundary between India and Bangladesh (the erstwhile East Pakistan) since 1947. The Nehru-Noon agreement of 1958 and the agr...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 07 Jun 2015 This article provides evidence on the role of consumer food subsidies in improving nutritional intake
and diet quality by evaluating the expansion of the government food assistance program coverage i...
by Andaleeb Rahman | On 05 Jun 2015 This paper examines a number of questions that have a bearing on women’s employment in South Asia. The characteristic features of the region such as the predominantly rural, agrarian economy; patriarc...
by | On 04 Jun 2015 History and civilisation move in cities. All major scientific, social, political, economic and technological innovations have happened in human agglomerations known as cities. Great civilisations and...
by | On 04 Jun 2015 The present study discusses the trends and patterns in agricultural growth at the national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables like area, production, input use and value of o...
by Elumalai Kannan | On 04 Jun 2015 This report assesses the state of progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and then considers how the international community can embark on a post-2015 development agenda and do so in an in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jun 2015 In 2009, India enacted the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, which provides for free and compulsory education to all children aged 6 to 14 based on principles of equity and non-d...
by Human Rights Watch | On 02 Jun 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 01 Jun 2015 This provides guidance on the draft action plan for better health to disable people. There are more than 1000 million people with disability worldwide, about 15% of the global population. The prevalen...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 Jun 2015 This report draws on IDMC’s report on internal displacement in Myanmar published in July 2014 and also uses information collected since then. It is based on documents published by international organi...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 27 May 2015 The Working Group has taken cognisance to the issues of inclusive growth. It lays emphasis on the view that employment generation should be focused on different segments of labour force – organized, u...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 2015 International reporting of the large-scale migration of those leaving Burma in search of work abroad has highlighted the perils for migrant during travel and in host countries. However, there has been...
by | On 18 May 2015 The Rohingya are an ethno-religious minority group from the Rakhine region, which today is encompassed within the borders of Myanmar and is adjacent to Bangladesh. The majority of Rohingya in Myanmar...
by The Equal Rights Trust | On 14 May 2015 This report looks at how, despite major strides made towards poverty reduction and towards achieving the MDGs, increasing inequality in many countries in the last two decades has hampered greater prog...
by | On 14 May 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine the role of banks particularly the state owned and specialized banks in
promoting women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Women constitute almost half of the t...
by | On 13 May 2015 This policy brief documents the participation of youth in Andhra Pradesh in civil society, the extent to which they uphold secular attitudes and their perceptions about and participation in political...
by Population Council | On 12 May 2015 In order to achieve excellence in sports, government of Assam aims to adaopt a uniform policy so that sports activities in the state are spread over the year. Assam sports policy aims to provide sport...
by Government of Assam | On 12 May 2015 The January 2014 issue of YOJANA contains the following articles - Tribal and Marginalized Communities, Constitutional Provisions, Laws and Tribes, Actualising Adivasi Self-Rule, The Food Bill, Wild F...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 11 May 2015 Malnutrition is responsible for nearly half (45 percent) of all deaths in children under five. Children who are undernourished between conception and age two are at high risk for impaired cognitive de...
by World Bank | On 11 May 2015 Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth. This book develops a poverty profile for India in view of the ongoing national and global effor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2015 This paper outlines the changing profile of philanthropists and developments in philanthropic practice, and suggests how philanthropy can be harnessed for sustainable development beyond 2015.
Along...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 07 May 2015 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 which is a rights-based flagship scheme of the Government of India with effect from 2 February, 2006, guarantees at least 100...
by | On 06 May 2015 This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes...
by V B Athreya | On 06 May 2015 The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) during the period July 2009 - June 2010 carried out an all-India household survey on the subject of employment and unemployment in India as a part of 66th roun...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 05 May 2015 This report presents the information on nutritional intake by the Indian population. Among the different nutrients only three nutrients – viz, calorie, protein and fat – are discussed in this report....
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 05 May 2015 The papers objective is to provide statistical evidences in terms of measures of the outcome indicators of the MDG framework as could be available for the most current years have been used in this rep...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 29 Apr 2015 Review of Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development ed. Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2014. pp. 273. Rs. 850/-, ISBN: 9789351500407.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 28 Apr 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 28 Apr 2015 The paper focuses on the objective of putting in place a uniform criteria to identify the BPL households in urban areas so that objectivity and transparency is ensured in delivery of benefits to the t...
by Planning Commission | On 27 Apr 2015 SAARC Development Goals are regionalized from of Millennium Development Goals, with some additional targets and indicators, for the period of five years, 2007-12. The Third SAARC Ministerial Meeting o...
by | On 24 Apr 2015 This report however, also takes a step forward in trying to draw a balance between “needs” and “performance”. Given that poor administration or weak institutions in a recipient state can fritter away...
by Ministry of Finance | On 23 Apr 2015 This Five Year Plan document focuses on Economic Sectors which provides plans for Agriculture, Industry, Energy, Transport, Communication, Rural Development, Urban Development and Other Priority Secto...
by Planning Commission | On 23 Apr 2015 This article questions two widely accepted claims on long-term food insecurity in Asia, the world's (heterogeneous) region with the largest number of undernourished individuals. The first claim is tha...
by | On 23 Apr 2015 This report entitled "Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015", which is the latest in a series of such reports since 2005, captures India's achievements and challenges in respect of th...
by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementatio GOI | On 21 Apr 2015 In context of contemporary debates about censorship, net neutrality and the role of the state in today’s globalising world, it becomes vital to examine the stand taken by various Asian governments tow...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 17 Apr 2015 The aim of this paper is to provide policy-makers with a helpful overview of the technical and economic aspects of water use in agriculture, with particular emphasis on crop and livestock production....
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 15 Apr 2015 This report provides evidence that poor, hungry and malnourished people use some of their additional income either to produce or purchase more food, aiming to increase their dietary energy intake and...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 09 Apr 2015 The 2015 World Water Development Report sets both an aspirational and a realistic vision for the future of water towards 2050. This report comes at a critical moment, when freshwater resources face ri...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 27 Mar 2015 Understanding the link between financial inclusion, poverty, and income inequality at the country level will help policymakers design and
implement programs that will broaden access to financial serv...
by | On 27 Mar 2015 Evidence regarding the relationship between married women’s autonomy and risk of marital violence remains mixed. Moreover, studies examining the contribution of specific aspects of women’s autonomy in...
by | On 26 Mar 2015 On 5 January, the first anniversary of the deeply contested 2014 elections, the most violent in Bangladesh’s history, clashes between government and opposition groups led to several deaths and scores...
by International Crisis Group | On 24 Mar 2015 India has made notable progress in achieving poverty reduction and other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since their adoption at the turn of the century but this progress has been uneven and milli...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 19 Mar 2015 his country brief highlights how ADB operations have helped support Bhutan’s efforts in advancing socioeconomic development.
Since Bhutan became a member in 1982, ADB has provided $486.29 million i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2015 This paper argues that that per capita income in all states in India increased in the past four decades but in fact no sign of convergence could be visible as it was expected in the context of liberal...
by | On 13 Mar 2015 This working paper, part of ODI's Development Progress project, looks at the relationship between neglected tropical diseases and poverty. With a view towards progress in development, the paper identi...
by Fiona Samuels | On 13 Mar 2015 This report repositions a group of 17 neglected tropical diseases on the global development agenda at a time of profound transitions in the economies of endemic countries and in thinking about the ove...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 09 Mar 2015 A substantial part of the 2015 Budget Statement is interspersed with the promise that ‘every rupee of public expenditure…will contribute to the betterment of people’s lives through job creation, pover...
by Gautam Mody | On 03 Mar 2015 Ahead of the Union Budget, Civil Society Organizations ask for policy strategies to support drinking water and sanitation for vulnerable sections. Civil society budget groups, collectively as a networ...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Open defecation and improper garbage disposal are a reality of public spaces in India, not just due to poverty or a lack of initiative on the government, but social acceptance of attitudes which disr...
by Poorva Awasthi | On 24 Feb 2015 Sanitation is a big challenge in the rural India. Through this you will be taken to to five villages in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh, to meet families that do not have a toilet at home. Nearly 65 p...
by Sutapa Deb | On 21 Feb 2015 The report states that about 90 people have been killed and more than a thousand were injured in the ongoingviolent anti-government protests by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 20-party alli...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 19 Feb 2015 The Delhi Human Development Report, 2013, has been structured around the theme ‘Improving Lives, Promoting Inclusion’. This theme encompasses all the fundamental concerns of human development that is,...
by | On 05 Feb 2015 Rural Electronic Government (e-government) projects are aimed at providing government services and information to rural public. The e-government initiatives have not been very successful in developing...
by | On 04 Feb 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 The studies broad aim is to access the welfare impact of solar home systems (SHS) on households and to evaluate the present institutional structure and financing mechanisms. Also it accesses the direc...
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 27 Jan 2015 This issue brief outlines a roadmap for human progress over the next 15 years. Known as the Sustainable Development Goals, these new global targets will drive investment and action in virtually every...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 20 Jan 2015 A better understanding of the socio-economic root causes and a new assessment of the profits of forced labour are important to bringing about long-term change. This report highlights how forced labour...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 19 Jan 2015 Youth in Afghanistan have benefited from national laws and policies in the sectors of education, culture, sport, rural development and reconstruction, but three decades of civil unrest deprived a gene...
by Government of Republic of Afghanistan | On 16 Jan 2015 ASAR report has made a great contribution to the discussions on our primary education policy. On a few parameters, these surveys show that the overall learning levels have deteriorated over the years....
by PRATHAM | On 15 Jan 2015 The health system of Bangladesh relies heavily on the government or the public sector for financing and setting
overall policies and service delivery mechanisms. Although the health system is faced w...
by | On 13 Jan 2015 Despite economic growth, and a reduction in poverty, malnutrition is still rampant in South-Asia. This indicates that non-economic factors are important, and it used a nation-wide survey from Nepal to...
by | On 13 Jan 2015 This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to dif...
by Niels-Hugo Blunch | On 29 Dec 2014 This paper attempts to assess the impact of trade liberalization on growth, poverty, and food security in India with the help of a national level computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. It shows t...
by | On 29 Dec 2014 The political economy of health care services in India has various dimensions. Multiple systems, various types of ownership patterns and different kinds of delivery structures make up a complex plural...
by Dr. Leena Gangolli | On 26 Dec 2014 The lack of social protection for the elderly in rural areas of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has, since the 1990s, been seen by the government as a critical issue. The central government intro...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Dec 2014 This report is based on information collected during 2011-12 from 7469 villages and 5268 urban
blocks spread over the entire country. Two different schedules were used to collect information on
cons...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 23 Dec 2014 Urbanization worldwide has been found to be an effective engine of economic
growth and socio-cultural development. In pure economic terms, urbanization
contributes significantly to the national econ...
by | On 17 Dec 2014 The basic objective of the study is to examine the impact of public expenditure on health and education after
incorporating the linkages between health status of children and their educational achiev...
by Runu Bhatka | On 12 Dec 2014 This paper first presents approach of Expert Group (Rangarajan). The
clarifications are given under the following heads: (1) what is new in the approach for poverty line; (2)
Use of calories; (3) Mu...
by C. Rangarajan | On 12 Dec 2014 Evidence from developing countries regarding the association between gender inequity and intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in women has been suggestive but inconclusive. Using nationally r...
by Mosiur Rahman | On 05 Dec 2014 Girl education is believed to be the best means of reducing girl child marriage (marriage <18 years) globally. However, in South Asia, where the majority of girl child marriages occur, substantial imp...
by Anita Raj | On 02 Dec 2014 The usual explanations for the
divergence between calorie intake
and consumption expenditure
in India ignore the enormous
squeeze on food budgets arising
from dispossession (leading to
loss of a...
by Deepankar Basu | On 28 Nov 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of
implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works
employm...
by Anil K. Bhargava | On 28 Nov 2014 In India, biofuel has gained in popularity in recent years because of its potential
as a clean energy source and a means to stimulate rural development.
Yet, growth in Jatropha, a key bio-fuel crop,...
by Kishor Goswami | On 27 Nov 2014 Child marriage is one of the most prevalent and serious violations of human rights. The issue needs urgent
attention in South Asia, where 46 per cent of children are married formally or in informal u...
by Ravi Verma | On 27 Nov 2014 This paper analyses poverty and calorific undernourishment in the Indian state of Gujarat, where high and market-led industrial growth has resulted in rapid economic improvement. The study is carried...
by Mely Caballero Anthony | On 21 Nov 2014 The objective of this paper is to analyse the nature and magnitude of the problem and determinants of child labour and their participation in the workforce at an early age. The results reveal that fam...
by Kabita Sahu | On 20 Nov 2014 Migration and urbanization are direct manifestations of the process of economic development in space, particularly in the contemporary phase of globalization. Understanding the causes and consequences...
by Amitabh Kundu | On 11 Nov 2014 Urbanisation in India is neither unique nor exclusive but is similar to a world-wide phenomenon. Indian urbanisation has proceeded as it has elsewhere in the world as a part and product of economic ch...
by K.C. Sivaramakrishnan | On 11 Nov 2014 This paper makes in-depth study of the level of literacy among females and the extent of gender disparity in
literacy in different districts of rural and urban Maharashtra. This paper also shows imp...
by Asha A. Jindal | On 11 Nov 2014 Development of an economy goes hand in hand with a declining importance of agriculture in output and employment. Given the primarily rural population in developing countries and their concentration in...
by Amartya Lahiri | On 06 Nov 2014 Millions of farmers in remote rural areas of India struggle to feed themselves and their families, while the resources on which they depend are deteriorating daily. This book shows how sustainable agr...
by Sustainable Agriculture Information Network | On 06 Nov 2014 Recent evidence indicated that gender disparity in child health is minimal and narrowed over time in India. However, considering the geographical and socio-cultural diversity in India, the gender gap...
by Ranjan Kumar Prusty | On 03 Nov 2014 During the last decade, Bangladesh maintained a stable growth rate of around 6 per cent, and gross domestic product (GDP) doubled in the period 2000–12. Unfortunately, economic growth has not translat...
by Kazi Ali Toufique | On 31 Oct 2014 The NREGS is an ambitious public works program intended to provide a basic safety net to the rural poor in India. This paper attempts to study two aspects of the program’s functioning using data from...
by Vinayak Uppal | On 31 Oct 2014 India contains the majority of the world’s malnourished children, yet malnutrition has declined only very slowly in recent years, despite rapid economic growth and apparent improvements in food securi...
by Suneetha Kadiyala | On 31 Oct 2014 India is a developing country having 2nd highest population in the world. Even after 66 years of
its independence, County is facing a serious issue of poverty and malnutrition. The Government
of I...
by Hitesh S. Gujarati | On 29 Oct 2014 In this paper, the relationship is assessed between possessing information on, gaining access to and the efficacy of delivery of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGA) in three sta...
by Shylashri Shankar | On 28 Oct 2014 More than two decades have passed since India embarked on major economic reforms—and although official poverty rates have declined sharply since then, millions of Indians continue to face significant...
by Rajat Gupta | On 28 Oct 2014 Can corporate sustainability aid growth, create value and actions on environmental protection? The answer can be positive. But at the same time, level of development of the country, poverty etc. also...
by G Padmanabhan | On 27 Oct 2014 In 2008, two earnest young men set out to boost soya bean yields in the semi-arid region of Bundi in Rajasthan. Rainfall there is meagre and the soil lacks nutrients. But there are ready buyers for so...
by Civil Society | On 20 Oct 2014 The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. This perspective...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 India has the dubious distinction of having the highest burden of malnutrition in
the world – higher than Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 50 per cent of our children
are underweight and stunted and 70...
by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India | On 16 Oct 2014 India is home to the largest number of children in the world, significantly larger than the number in China.1 The country has 20 per cent of the 0- 4 years’ child population of the world.
The numb...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 15 Oct 2014 Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate
factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising
agricultural cost of produ...
by Thangzason Sonna | On 14 Oct 2014 Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels...
by Jeni Klugman | On 14 Oct 2014 Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widesp...
by Diane Coffey | On 07 Oct 2014 Since the 2007-08 food crisis and hunger riots, the international policy agenda has shifted, clearly identifying that hunger and malnutrition are a poverty trap and potential source of political insta...
by Farming First | On 26 Sep 2014 Rapid human development progress in India, Bangladesh and other South Asian nations is helping drive a historic shift in global dynamics, with hundreds of millions of people rising from poverty and bi...
by Rameshwar Jat | On 26 Sep 2014 The role of male’s participation in reproductive healthcare is now well-recognized. The present study investigated the role of men in some selected reproductive health issues, characterizing their inv...
by Md Shahjahan | On 25 Sep 2014 The intention of this paper is to examine the impact of Indian Rupee depreciation on Bangladesh Economy. The empirical results obtained from OLS for the sample period from
2007:10 to 2013:10 show tha...
by Sayera Younus | On 25 Sep 2014 Internal migrant construction workers in Bangladesh face unduly harsh conditions of work. This brief identifies a number of problems that all construction workers face, but they are particularly perti...
by C R Abrar | On 24 Sep 2014 Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil erosion, major river basins, and livelihoods of poor households living near the fore...
by Jean Marie Baland | On 24 Sep 2014 Research conducted by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium in Nepal on the impact of such migration, demonstrated that migration has a positive role in helping households of migr...
by Jagannath Adhikar | On 24 Sep 2014 “Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia’s Infrastructure Gap” reveals that the region’s growing demands for infrastructure has enlarged an existing infrastructure gap. According to the report, address...
by Luis Andrés | On 22 Sep 2014 Many national poverty reduction strategies overlook the needs of young people. Even where national strategies do have a youth focus, the analysis of their situation is limited because little or no ref...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 18 Sep 2014 This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS) implemented in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region – Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Samoa and Viet Nam – in 2012 or...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 18 Sep 2014 In developing countries, a large part of the livelihood derives services of natural resources and ecosystem and these are critical for sustainable livelihoods. It has been universally acknowledged tha...
by Dharmendra Chandurkar | On 17 Sep 2014 In spite of the rapid growth of the Indian economy, the fraction of the rural population living in poverty has declined only modestly. Increasing indebtedness, rises in input prices, and rapid commerc...
by Raj M. Desai | On 17 Sep 2014 This brief is one of series on scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition. PepsiCo is a global business operating in more than 200 countries and territories and rooted in creating and...
by Beth Sauerhaft | On 17 Sep 2014 UN Women’s report, “Hearts and Minds: Women of India Speak” acknowledges the “lived experiences” of women and girls in India at the grassroots level and ensures that the voices of those who remain soc...
by UN Women | On 15 Sep 2014 The global economic crises that started in 2008 have exposed commodity markets to increasing price
volatility and raised concerns for higher inflation, food security and poverty reduction. This seri...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Sep 2014 Cultural traditions and a lack of legal protections are driving tens of millions of girls around the world into early marriage, subjecting them to violence, poverty and mistreatment. Equality Now, in...
by Equality Now | On 12 Sep 2014 Migration is a process that gets intensified with the process of economic development. Population mobility from rural to urban areas is a common feature in India. Interestingly, this rural-urban migra...
by Debasis Chakraborty | On 11 Sep 2014 The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water and Sanitation, which tracks progress towards the water and sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals, estimates that 36% of the wo...
by Clarissa Brocklehurst | On 10 Sep 2014 Over the past 40 years, China’s population has been aging at a rate that took more than 100 years in developed countries. In 2010, the number of people over 60 years old reached 178 million in China,...
by World Bank | On 09 Sep 2014 This report on the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2013 prepared by the non-profit Pratham Education Foundation recently pointed out that the quality of learning—as measured by reading, writi...
by PRATHAM | On 02 Sep 2014 The state of Chhattisgarh today faces several challenges in improving the health status of its people. The on-going problems of maternal and child mortality, communicable diseases, and HIV/AIDS pandem...
by Nitin M. Nagarkar | On 27 Aug 2014 About 4.5 lakh fair price shops in India sell 10-20 lakh tons of rice and wheat at the subsidized rate per month. Majority of the ration shops are in urban areas, they are hardly ever open and only a...
by Parth Shah | On 27 Aug 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher p...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 25 Aug 2014 The Maharashtra Comprehensive Nutrition Survey 2012 is the first ever state-specific nutrition survey with a focus on infants and children undertwo and their mothers. A representative sample of child...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 23 Aug 2014 The employment performance of the employment generation programs appears transitory and short
term. Although some programs exceeded the employment targets, it is not clear how these
numbers are tran...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 22 Aug 2014 Bangladesh today with a population of nearly 160 million faces myriad development challenges. But it is far from being the ‘basket case’ that Henry Kissinger once described it as. Despite its still be...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 22 Aug 2014 More attention to the promotion and protection of the rights and the socio-economic needs of young people needs to be an essential element of a country’s efforts to eradicate poverty. Young people (de...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 22 Aug 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at
the local level from India’s N...
by Megan Sheahan | On 01 Aug 2014 This paper studies how changes in climatic variables such as temperature and rainfall impact migration through agriculture. Bangladesh is recognized as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate...
by Paritosh Roy | On 31 Jul 2014 If the Union Budget 2014 is anything to go by , the fiscal policy of the new government shows no change. In fact, there is an amazing continuity with the previous few Budgets. Significantly however,...
by Ravi Duggal | On 23 Jul 2014 The youth constitute one third of total population in Bangladesh. For this important portion of population, determination of national outlook is undeniable. The main objective of the present National...
by Department of Youth Development | On 17 Jul 2014 Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Corridor is a win-win arrangement. The linkages of tr...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 15 Jul 2014 This report entitled “Millennium Development Goals (MDG) India Country Report-2014’ captures the achievements in India as of today under the eight MDGs which are to be achieved by 2015. The year 2014,...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 08 Jul 2014 At the turn of the century, world leaders came together at the United Nations and agreed on a bold vision for the future through the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) wer...
by United Nations UN | On 08 Jul 2014 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 07 Jul 2014 Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private tutoring outside the
formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects
on learning outcomes....
by Ambrish Dongre | On 05 Jul 2014 The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD leve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Jun 2014 This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for
2004-05 and 2009-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and als...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Jun 2014 With an urbanization level of 31.16 percent in 2011, India is the least urbanized country among the top
10 economies of the world. In addition, unlike other countries, the transition of workforce out...
by Ajay Sharma | On 26 May 2014 The present study analyses the labour market situation in India over the last two decades. Given the growth profile, which has been quite robust in recent years, one pertinent question is whether Indi...
by Arup Mitra | On 23 May 2014 Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in
developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India t...
by Ajay Sharma | On 20 May 2014 The Report highlights the unique aspects of youth development in various regions but emphasizes that young people the world over are ultimately constrained in their efforts to contribute to their own...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 It is estimated that by 2030, only 60 per cent of the
world's population will have access to fresh water supplies. This would mean that about 3 billion people would be living without reliable source...
by Wilson John | On 15 May 2014 Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. This was launched in 2000, when the countries of the world agreed to “eliminate gender disparities i...
by Edward B. Fiske | On 12 May 2014 This Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to resp...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The Human Development Report 2011 explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in gene...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The 2013 Human Development Report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World looks at the evolving geopolitics of our times, examining emerging issues and trends and also the new actors...
by Khalid Malik | On 06 May 2014 Indoor air pollution, associated with using biomass cooking fuels, causes an estimated 871,500 child deaths globally every year from respiratory related complications. Children are particularly vulner...
by Meena Sehgal | On 02 May 2014 Poverty alleviation has been a pre-eminent goal of India’s development efforts since its Independence. Though there has been a significant decline in the incidence of poverty at the national level in...
by Alakh Sharma | On 29 Apr 2014 The analysis in this report leads to an overall conclusion that the IFSS is an excellent strategy on paper and a relevant framework for different stakeholders, but in reality it lacks implementing pow...
by Josee Koch | On 29 Apr 2014 This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over
20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit
programs in Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth
of microfinance institutions representing...
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 26 Apr 2014 This series of eSSays is an attempt to fill that gap and make social and economic research impacting policy available to enhance public debate in this time of change. We also hope that this will const...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 21 Apr 2014 In almost all underdeveloped countries where per capita income is very low, income inequality has resulted in a number of evils, of which poverty is certainly the most serious one. Poverty infact is a...
by Lalita Kumari | On 18 Apr 2014 This report highlights the way in which poverty and a?uence intersect with age-old divisions of regional inequalities, gender, caste, and religion that have long structured human development in India....
by Sonalde Desai | On 17 Apr 2014 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 Apr 2014 There have always been differences of view on what poverty means in conceptual terms, and even greater differences on how to measure it. These differences span a broad spectrum of normative and ideolo...
by Peter Saunders | On 09 Apr 2014 Food insecurity, or the inability to access food of sufficient quantity and quality to satisfy minimum dietary needs, is the most basic form of human deprivation. Before people can provide for their e...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Apr 2014 With the deadline for the MDGs on the horizon, progress can be reported in most areas, despite the impact of the global economic and financial crisis. The analysis in this report, based on a wide rang...
by United Nations UN | On 04 Apr 2014 The paper examines two questions:
(i) do population trends impede agricultural
productivity? or
(ii) it promote agricultural productivity or
both? [BIDS}.
by Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury | On 04 Apr 2014 Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's
public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in...
by Andaleeb Rahman | On 02 Apr 2014 In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million
households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Mar 2014 This paper makes an attempt to incorporate bene ts from unpaid public services into
consumption decisions to arrive at more accurate measures of poverty and inequality. The
analysis is based on prim...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 14 Mar 2014 The first of a series of eSSays dossiers on issues of public concern. Guest editor: M.H. Suryanarayana.
Contents:
Poverty Line: Pursuit of an Elusive Minimum by
M.H. Suryanarayana
Fixing Poverty...
by eSocialSciences eSS | On 08 Mar 2014 MGNREGA, which is the largest work guarantee programme in the world, was enacted in 2005 with the primary objective of guaranteeing 100 days of wage employment per year to rural households. It aims at...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 05 Mar 2014 The report examines the data on the poor, their characteristics and attempts to profile the poor. It addresses the need to devise a vision for the Eleventh Plan, which derives from the Approach Paper...
by Planning Commission | On 04 Mar 2014 Rising inequality alongside rapid economic growth reinforces the need to examine patterns of social mobility in India. Are children from less well-off sections also able to rise to higher-paying posit...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are con...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 This article analyses the possible links between economic growth, poverty and health, using panel data for the Indian states. The findings indicate that, though growth tends to reduce poverty, signifi...
by Indrani Gupta | On 04 Mar 2014 This paper studies the targeting of NREGS and how NREGS affects some major welfare indicators on its direct beneficiaries. Data from some 2,500 households in Andhra Pradesh (AP) who were surveyed in...
by Yanyan Liu | On 03 Mar 2014 This report specifically examines the gendered dimensions and impacts of the Indian public works programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The government of Indi...
by Rebecca Holmes | On 03 Mar 2014 This paper studies the problem of chronic hunger and malnutrition in India. The government of India introduced the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in 1997 replacing the Universal Public Dis...
by Madhura Swaminathan | On 03 Mar 2014 This paper analysis the development paradox of India, relatively high economic growth rates in the past few years, but lower progress in areas of life expectancy, education and standard of living. Pov...
by Kiruba S Varadharajan | On 03 Mar 2014 This paper addresses twin issues--- poverty and under-nutrition among the STs in India at disaggregated levels. Following the draft tribal policy, districts in Schedule VI states as well districts und...
by Amaresh Dubey | On 03 Mar 2014 This study was undertaken to assess the trends in HDI, human poverty index (HPI) and incidence of poverty among Indian states, the socio-economic, health, and diet and nutritional indicators which det...
by G.M. Antony | On 28 Feb 2014 The Government of India recently enacted the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(NREGA) 2005.1 The NREGA guarantees onehundred days of wage employment every year to every rural household whose adu...
by G.M. Antony | On 28 Feb 2014 To gain a better understanding of the changes in the numbers of cultivators and Agricultural labor (marginal or main), it is useful to read them with the change in the number of agricultural holdings...
by Rahul Goswami | On 28 Feb 2014 This report is based on decade long studies through three phases of the study project, aims to draw the attention of policy makers and concerned citizens to the gap, or chasm, between our goals, aspir...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 27 Feb 2014 This paper identifies the mediating factors that underpin a spiral or descent into
chronic poverty and identifies points at which intervention will most likely make a
difference.
by Ursula Grant | On 27 Feb 2014 Analysis of time series data on poverty in India has revealed a clearly discernable link between urban poverty decline and rural poverty decline. Previous analysis, focusing on the pre-reform period,...
by Peter Lanjouw | On 27 Feb 2014 The biggest challenge facing India's policy makers is the persisting high incidence of poverty. One of the reasons for the high incidence of poverty in India is its backward agriculture, whose produc...
by Ursula Grant | On 27 Feb 2014 This note discusses the Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Estimation
of Poverty. The Report recommends the use of the existing official urban poverty line as the
poverty lin...
by Madhura Swaminathan | On 27 Feb 2014 BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh are studied, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural wo...
by Narayan Das | On 05 Feb 2014 This paper attempts to shift the focus from ‘women’ to the significance of the
gender equation by assessing the intensity of gender disparity across geographic space,
and enquiring into the reasons...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 04 Feb 2014 This study identifies three priority areas for India's policymakers as they try to harness economic efficiency and manage spatial equity associated with urbanization. First, to enhance productivity, i...
by World Bank | On 28 Jan 2014 Bangladesh is in the cusp of great changes. At this point in time it is standing at a crossroads. This is when its friends and its responsible citizenry must help point towards the right direction: on...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 22 Jan 2014 In many ways, India is kindred with its two neighbors, Bangladesh and Nepal. Whether it is in geography I or demographics, infrastructure or economic issues, or poverty and human development, these th...
by Jayshree Sengupta | On 21 Jan 2014 Ila Pathak was a dedicated social activist who stood by socially excluded sections of society, especially brutalized women. She tirelessly supported women survivors of dowry harassment, rape victims,...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 21 Jan 2014 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has supported increased access to energy through the most cost-effective method—by expanding the electricity grid. Yet in this second decade of the 21st century, when...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jan 2014 Many countries adopted safety net programs to deal with the food crisis of 2008. However, such programs are often beset with targeting errors, inefficiencies, and
fraud. Despite this, there is no sys...
by Shikha Jha | On 20 Jan 2014 Lack of access to electricity and modern cooking fuels constitutes energy poverty. Access to modern energy requires improved technologies and financing
instruments and sources. The pro-poor public–pr...
by Benjamin Sovacool | On 20 Jan 2014 This paper focuses on two different types of malnutrition and then looks at the links between poor nutrition and agriculture.Malnutrition is one of the most devastating problems worldwide and its dire...
by Kevin Cleaver | On 16 Jan 2014 The paper is concerned with the high levels of infant and child illness and death amongst poor urban
slum communities in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Ur...
by Maya Unnithan Kumar | On 15 Jan 2014 Tobacco continues to be a major social and health menace across the globe. It is estimated that by 2030, it would account for the death of about 10 million people per year; half of them aged between 3...
by Dr. Pragati Hebber | On 09 Jan 2014 India struggles with water scarcity, a problem that poses especially huge implications for the country’s food security and rural livelihoods.
While watershed development has been employed in communit...
by Erin Gray | On 09 Jan 2014 The Planning Commission constituted, in September 1989, an 'Expert Group' to consider
methodological and computational aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in
India. [Planning Comm...
by Planning Commission | On 07 Jan 2014 In 2000-01, almost Rs 10,000 crore was spent on rural development schemes. The central government has almost a dozen major schemes in operation. But how is the success or failure of these schemes to b...
by Arpita Bedekar | On 31 Dec 2013 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) endorsed by 189 countries in 2000 are an unprecedented global effort to achieve development goals that are identified collectively, achievable, and measurable....
by Bread for the World Institute | On 19 Dec 2013 India and Bangladesh share a common historical background, geographical proximity, institutional
similarities, and a policy shift towards economic liberalization since the early 1990s. Inflation betw...
by Biru Paksha Paul | On 05 Dec 2013 This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274
villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent
in school, time sp...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 02 Dec 2013 Ganges is one of the important rivers of South Asia. It is a trans-boundary river between India and Bangladesh. Some rivers, originating in the Tibetan Autonomous region of the People's Republic of Ch...
by Dwarika Dhungel | On 15 Nov 2013 Although the UN Resolution on Child, Early and Forced Marriage was adopted unanimously, and India too is party to it since it did not raise any objections, the officials did discuss concerns regarding...
by Bharti Ali | On 15 Nov 2013 The paper describes of some of the critical challenges to democratization in Bangladesh. While electoral challenges are included, the paper looks beyond elections and describe other factors that can h...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 14 Nov 2013 This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. A simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) is presented that incorporates economic
and non-economic motive...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 13 Nov 2013 Gender Justice and Diversity unit of BRAC had a project on sensitizing young people
especially girls and community people about sexual harassment in selected areas in
Dhaka city in 2011 so that they...
by Md. Abdul Alim | On 13 Nov 2013 This paper focusses on two Indian laws that seek to guarantee socioeconomic rights: the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an important example of India’s
recent history of legislation...
by Reetika Khera | On 25 Oct 2013 Rural development reflects in the improvements in the economic well being of people living in villages. In someway, it reflects in the increase in the purchasing power of the rural inhabitants.
This...
by Ch.Sambasiva Rao | On 18 Oct 2013 India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realiz...
by Songqing Jin | On 14 Oct 2013 The first step toward change is awareness. Do take out some time to know what's happening in the country we live in.
This video has been designed to spread awareness about food insecurity in India,...
by The Hunger Project Project | On 11 Oct 2013 This study estimates the weather sensitivity of rice yield in India, using disaggregated (district) level information on rice and high resolution daily
weather data over the period 1969-2007. Compare...
by Anubhab Pattanayak | On 11 Oct 2013 Presented are estimates of the impact of India’s Public Distribution System on rural poverty, using National Sample Survey data for 2009-10 and official poverty lines. At the all
India level, the PD...
by Jean Dreze | On 27 Sep 2013 Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to exa...
by Valerie Mueller | On 06 Sep 2013 The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. The authors hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypoth...
by Anandi Mani | On 04 Sep 2013 The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term...
by Amita Shah | On 03 Sep 2013 This report is based on the eighth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment
conducted in the 66th round of NSS during July 2009 to June 2010. The survey was spread over
7402 villages and 5...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 19 Aug 2013 A recap of the previous poverty estimates can be found here. [Planning Commission]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/news/pre_pov2307.pdf].
by Planning Commission | On 05 Aug 2013 Interview on the recent released poverty line.
by Planning Commission | On 05 Aug 2013 Poverty needs to be measured taking into account OOP spending, since health spending is also now viewed as an essential expenditure that enhances welfare like
food and other necessities. [Paper prese...
by Indrani Gupta | On 05 Aug 2013 The present paper makes an attempt to analyse the progress of India in three important ‘basic human needs’ essential for a human life. These are access to latrine facility, safe drinking water and ele...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 01 Aug 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 The report deals with the estimation of poverty and identification of poor – differences in approach. It also describes the characteristics and trends of urban poverty. The vulnerability of urban poor...
by Planning Commission, India | On 29 Jul 2013 This study raises some relevant issues and examines them from an economic perspective. To begin with, it would examine how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring po...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 26 Jul 2013 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc...
by Kaivan Munshi | On 22 Jul 2013 This study looked at budget processes related to health in two districts of Maharashtra and found that there was a significant variation in the way budget estimation was practiced at the level of Prim...
by Prashant Raymus | On 17 Jul 2013 This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and incre...
by Samik Chowdhury | On 28 Jun 2013 Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jun 2013 This study examines the impact of agrarian distress on the different socio-economic groups, the strategies of livelihood adopted by households and the local institution in shaping these strategies. Th...
by K.N. Nair | On 28 Jun 2013 This paper provides a theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's
child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is endogenized; as their choice of substituting child lab...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 25 Jun 2013 In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its progress against both child and adult under-nutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian v...
by Derek Headey | On 12 Jun 2013 Supplementary Budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 and the Budget Estimates for the fiscal year 2013-14. [http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/13_14/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 07 Jun 2013 The present study attempts
to, (a) analyse the broad patterns of temporary and permanent migration
in India; and (b) explore the determinants of temporary and permanent
migration with special focus...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 06 Jun 2013 The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has proposed to launch a “National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM)” in 12th Five Year Plan.
by Anonymous | On 27 May 2013 As per the Census, the child sex ratio (0-6 years) has shown a sharp decline from 927 females per thousand males in 2001 to 914 females per thousand males in 2011.
by Anonymous | On 27 May 2013 According to Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012” report, there is a reduction of 34.9 percent in prevalence of undernourishment from 1990-1992 to 2010-...
by Anonymous | On 27 May 2013 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 23 May 2013 This booklet explains the SECC,2011, as it relates to rural India,
and details the entire process in simple language. [Ministry of Rural Development]. URL:[http://rural.nic.in/sites/downloads/general...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 02 May 2013 Few studies have done on the vulnerabilities faced by migrants during events such as civil war regime change or global financial crisis. The study examines the case of Bangladeshi migrant workers who...
by Tasneem Siddiqui | On 29 Apr 2013 The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Pa...
by Caroline Wilson | On 26 Apr 2013 This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section
of crops, seasons and regions based on existing literature. The study notes that the impact of
climate...
by K N Ninan | On 24 Apr 2013 This brief explores circular migration in India and the policy response, and impact of this
policy response, on the welfare of migrants and more broadly, on regional inequality. [ODI Policy Brief No....
by Kate Bird | On 24 Apr 2013 Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work
because they cannot survive on what they can earn in thei...
by Naomi Jacob | On 17 Apr 2013 The present study is concerned with the migrant who has changed his/her place of
residence from a state other than Punjab and is working in brick-kiln industry as worker. [Repec]. URL:[http://mpra.ub...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2013 This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, b...
by Harsh Mander | On 10 Apr 2013 The national budget is truly a potent tool for the economy to journey towards inclusive growth that would empower Filipinos through deliverance from backbreaking poverty. [Senate of the Philippines]....
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 08 Apr 2013 This study examines options for managing rice residue and the factors that determine its management in the south-west region of Bangladesh. Study results indicate that while straw length, low-elevatio...
by Mohammed Ziaul Haider | On 29 Mar 2013 Against the backdrop of evolution of rural credit system in India as well as its observed failure to be inclusive in character, this paper makes use of a fairly large data set of the Center for Manage...
by Saugandh Datta | On 07 Mar 2013 The report investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that...
by Sripad Motiram | On 07 Mar 2013 There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Mar 2013 The budget has come with schemes for rural India. It has got schemes for women, youth and poor.
by Sunil Duggal | On 28 Feb 2013 Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
by P Chidambaram | On 28 Feb 2013 Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.
by Orissa Government | On 25 Feb 2013 Budget expectations for automobile sector. [IRIS India].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 19 Feb 2013 This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between selfemployment and paid-empl...
by Yuling Cui | On 13 Feb 2013 In the megacities of developing Southeast Asia, the informal sector plays an important role in supporting economic development.
Yet, in discussions of the ramifications of climaterelated
natural haz...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 13 Feb 2013 Journalism in South Asia is facing many challenges with physical security being a major issue in most of the region. Several countries may have improved relatively due to decisions to reduce the risks...
by International Federation of Journalists IFJ | On 04 Feb 2013 This study was conducted in three South Asian countries viz: India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The study examines the opinions of patients, hospitals owners and doctors involved in this service trade. A to...
by Arindam Banik | On 22 Jan 2013 This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter
heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http:/...
by Gerard Padro-i- Miquel | On 09 Jan 2013 Review of the book 'Migration of Women Workers from South Asia to the Gulf' By Rakkee Thimothy, S.K. Sasikumar, UN Women, 2012
by R. S. Reshmi | On 24 Dec 2012 Review article of Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India; Aseem Shrivastava, Ashish Kothari;
Penguin Viking, New Delhi;
Pp. 394, Rs 699.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 10 Dec 2012 To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the...
by Rajani Ved | On 16 Nov 2012 Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people living on less than $1.25 a day and a further billion people living on between $1.25 and $2. At the s...
by Andy Sumner | On 05 Nov 2012 A rigorous econometric
analysis of a civil conflict is conducted that the Indian Prime Minister has called the single biggest internal
security challenge ever faced by his country, the so-called Mao...
by Davesh Kapur | On 13 Oct 2012 Food wastage is prevalent in Southeast Asia and has significant implications for the region’s food, environmental and economic security. It is likely that the region wastes approximately 33 per cent o...
by Paul S Teng | On 08 Oct 2012 This study aims at analyzing
the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer
strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study
indicates that besides ind...
by Brijesh C Purohit | On 28 Sep 2012 A historical narrative of Bihar is provided context to much of its current state, Focus is given on its contemporary economy in the past three decades to better understand the moribund state of its ec...
by Arnab Mukherji | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 Although the urban health issue has been of long-standing interest to public health researchers, majority of
the studies have looked upon the urban poor and migrants as distinct subgroups. Another co...
by Prashant Kumar Singh | On 24 Sep 2012 A primary census-type panel household survey is show that in 18 villages in rural China, child health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita...
by Xi Chen | On 07 Sep 2012 This Report is focused on the informal or the unorganized economy which accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the poor and vulnerable population in an otherwise shining
India. It concentrates on...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 05 Sep 2012 The policy processes of the policy on ‘Nurse practitioners in midwifery’ (NPM) are described. The policy aims to educate and create a new cadre of competent midwives in the government hospitals as an...
by Sharma Bharati | On 03 Sep 2012 The objective of this report is to share a market level overview of the early stage progress of (Mobile Financial Services) MFS in Bangladesh up through the first quarter of 2012. A series of short s...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 23 Aug 2012 A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income
distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link informatio...
by Vivi Alatas | On 23 Aug 2012 What is the relationship
between social conflict and poverty in the context of Manipur? There is a need to recognize togetherness of the imperatives of
economic well being, socio-cultural identity a...
by Anand Kumar | On 22 Aug 2012 Malnutrition and under nutrition are critical issues in Maharashtra. In spite of being a high growth state in the country, it has occasionally remained in the news due to deaths caused by under nutrit...
by Manisha Karne | On 21 Aug 2012 Mangoes from Andhra Pradesh reach everywhere in India. This has caused the conversion of large tracts of paddy fields into mango farms in Andhra. It affects the rural employment. Use of chemicals to r...
by Alex George | On 14 Aug 2012 Environmental change is regarded by many geopolitical experts as one of the biggest threats to international security in the coming
years. In Southern Asia, its impact on rivers, and thus water secur...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 07 Aug 2012 This study aims to explore the impact of improved cook stoves (ICS) on fuel
expenditure (consumption), smoke emission, and health of women (cook) in rural
households of Bangladesh. In the follow-up...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 06 Aug 2012 Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There a...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 Aug 2012 Traditional analysis of gender wage gaps has largely focused on average gaps between men and women, and mean wage decompositions such as the Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method. To answer the q...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 26 Jul 2012 There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. That also shows that country ha...
by Anil K Gupta | On 20 Jul 2012 Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, intergenerational
occupational mobility in India is examined, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. Individ...
by Sripad Motiram | On 12 Jul 2012 Review of
Putting Women First: Women and Health in a Rural Community
Rani Bang with Sunanda Khorgade and Rupa Chinai;
Stree, Kolkata, India;
November 2010; pp 650; Rs 350.
by Anuja Jayaraman | On 11 Jul 2012 This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment
in primary schools among children in the 6–10 age group. A household-level
longitudinal survey is also done coveri...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 10 Jul 2012 This study estimates degree of intrinsic inflation persistence in Pakistan using aggregate price index, group level price indices, and individual commodity prices. Monthly data from 1959 to 2011 is us...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 09 Jul 2012 In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health
insurance to reduce catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.” The program...
by Victoria Fan | On 05 Jul 2012 Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 04 Jul 2012 The objective in this
paper is to estimate the role played by such factors in determining the
utilisation of formal health care to cure diarrhoea and certain respiratory
illnesses plaguing young ch...
by Anindita Chakrabarti | On 02 Jul 2012 This paper analyzes income related inequality in financial inclusion in India using a
representative household level survey data, linked to State-level factors. This paper also provides estimates of...
by Rama Pal | On 27 Jun 2012 This study investigates the effects of introducing elections on public goods and redistribution in rural China. A large and unique survey was collected to document the history of political reforms and...
by Yang Yao | On 05 Jun 2012 This Policy Brief
discusses the policy
options for improving
effectiveness of price
support, domestic
procurement
programme and public
stock management in
Bangladesh. It has been
funded by th...
by Quazi Shahabuddin | On 01 Jun 2012 Public works programs, aimed at building a strong social safety net through redistribution of wealth and generation of meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries....
by Mehtabul Azam | On 29 May 2012 Shallow groundwater with high arsenic concentrations from naturally occurring sources
is the primary source of drinking water for millions of people in Bangladesh. It has resulted in a
major public...
by Imran Matin | On 28 May 2012 This
paper employs a novel strategy to create a unique father-son matched data that is
representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched
data, the paper stu...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 28 May 2012 This paper takes a broader view and explores the multiple effects that global warming and climate change could have on food production and food security. Dealing with climate change would require stre...
by S. Richa | On 24 May 2012 This paper reviews the
debate surrounding the “deeper determinants” of economic performance. It
reviews the work of Institutional School and Geography School and their interpretation of the
long-r...
by Lubna Hasan | On 24 May 2012 This paper provides an empirical basis for the perceived link between rural infrastructure
and agricultural productivity. It validates the hypothesis that deficiencies in rural infrastructure
e.g.,...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 24 May 2012 The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural
growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines
the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms
by w...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan | On 24 May 2012 In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it.
Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human deve...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 21 May 2012 Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, the ef...
by Smriti Sharma | On 16 May 2012 The Pendang parliamentary and Anak Bukit by-elections for the Kedah state legislative assembly
were among the most contentious of by-elections in recent Malaysian politics. Held
simultaneously on 18...
by K Ramanathan | On 10 May 2012 This brief reviews recent evidence, examines main research challenges in identifying migration–climate links and discusses the policy options for formalizing migration as an adaptation mechanism to cl...
by Jean-François Maystadt | On 09 May 2012 It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries thro...
by Rema Hanna | On 03 May 2012 This study examines the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to long- term average cotton yields in India using a panel data analysis of production variables in nine Indian cotton-producing states from...
by Guillaume P Gruere | On 25 Apr 2012 The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child...
by Farah Naqvi | On 25 Apr 2012 India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra-Mehgna. China's riparian pol...
by Gopal Siwakoti Chintan | On 25 Apr 2012 The paper examines the determinants of remittance inflow by applying ordinary least square method
(OLS). The model include the weighted average GDP of the six (Saudi Arabia (KSA), United Arab
Emirat...
by Mst. Nurnaher Begum | On 24 Apr 2012 The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequen...
by Lina Gong | On 20 Apr 2012 The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in
Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The
role performance, role awarenes...
by Dilip Kumar Sarkar | On 20 Apr 2012 The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It
identifies the factors that significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions.
Moreover, i...
by Maria Teresa C Sanchez | On 18 Apr 2012 The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed.
The impact of remittances, in terms of both financial flows and transfer of new skills and the perceptions in
relat...
by Anmol Jain | On 18 Apr 2012 The main objective of this paper is to explore the potential role of social pensions and other noncontributory schemes in Asia, informed by insights from theory and international experience. The paper...
by Armando Barrientos | On 13 Apr 2012 The link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes are analyzed using a
newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the
distribution of income a...
by Norman Loayza | On 09 Apr 2012 The analysis of micro impacts of macroeconomic adjustment policies (MIMAP) is a relatively new discipline. It has spawned out of the concern that adjustment policies aimed to correct macroeconomic imb...
by Celia M Reyes | On 04 Apr 2012 Labour market insecurity, recognised as pervasive in rural India, is
multi-faceted. This study attempts to fill a gap in the research on
key dimensions of labour market insecurity by using the Natio...
by Padmini Desikachar | On 02 Apr 2012 Despite recent achievements to reduce child mortality, neonatal deaths continue to remain high, accounting
for 41% of all deaths in children under five years of age worldwide, of which over 90% occur...
by Hadley K Herbert | On 29 Mar 2012 Speech by Finance Minister. [Government of Rajasthan]. URL:[http://finance.rajasthan.gov.in/speech/1213/budgetspeech201213.pdf].
by Rajasthan Government | On 27 Mar 2012 The poverty line deviates from the reality. The government's redefinition is a good thing, but the danger is it won't go far enough. [BS Weekend ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/ind...
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Mar 2012 A simple theory is developed which formally describes how charities can resolve the information
asymmetry problems faced by small donors by working with large donors to generate quality signals. To t...
by Dean Karlan | On 26 Mar 2012 Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has
graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more
mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 p...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 19 Mar 2012 The transfer system in India is discussed and analyses expenditure
needs of States to provide essential health infrastructure. It also analyzes the fiscal space for
health care in terms of stimulati...
by M Govinda Rao | On 19 Mar 2012 The effect of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh is analyzed. In a framework that allows for unobserved heterogeneity among importing countries and product specificities,...
by Pranav Kumar Gupta | On 16 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 14 Mar 2012 Time is an important economic resource that can be spent in a variety of
ways. Diverse demands on a person’s time may reach a point where the
individual may be categorized as time poor. Time poverty...
by Najam us Saqib | On 09 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 06 Mar 2012 Poor governance and lack of state capabilities
in around 45 countries pose a
threat to global security and development.
The involvement of the international
community is required to help
these st...
by Wim Naudé | On 02 Mar 2012 The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a
billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of eviden...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Mar 2012 What have the MDGs achieved? And what might their achievements mean for any second
generation of MDGs or MDGs 2.0? We argue that the MDGs may have played a role in increasing
aid and that developmen...
by Charles Kenny | On 24 Feb 2012 The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which vulnerabilities can be managed and the role that local, national and regional policy responses...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 Feb 2012 This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in
rural south India alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This s...
by Samantha Watson | On 15 Feb 2012 In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for
human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-0...
by Manisha Chakrabarty | On 14 Feb 2012 This study is an attempt to assess the importance and potential impact of any further
development of the credit cooperative sector; identify development interventions that will result in a strong Fil...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 13 Feb 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 he caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India
from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close
link betwee...
by Ira Gang | On 07 Feb 2012 Review of
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services: Mid- term Evaluation of India's National Rural Health Mission
by Nirupam Bajpai, Jeffrey Sachs and Ravindra Dholakiya;
Sage Pub...
by Shyam Ashtekar | On 07 Feb 2012 This paper examines the functioning of Parliaments in Bangladesh, India,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka1 in order to gauge the extent of openness and access
from the point of view of both Members of Parliam...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 31 Jan 2012 After a decade of rapid economic growth, many developing countries have attained middle-income status. But poverty reduction in these countries has not kept pace with economic growth. As a result, mos...
by Amanda Glassman | On 31 Jan 2012 Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investmen...
by Silvia H. Barcellos | On 30 Jan 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 This report investigates how more and
better jobs can be created in South
Asia. It does so for two reasons. First,
this region will contribute nearly 40 percent
of the growth in the world’s workin...
by Reema Nayar | On 30 Jan 2012 Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indi...
by Sally Trethewie | On 27 Jan 2012 This paper has tried to address some key research
questions like will India and Andhra Pradesh achieve the Millennium Development
Goal of Sanitation ? Are the TSC targets realistic? What is coverage...
by M Snehalatha | On 25 Jan 2012 This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age
10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is based on Labour Force Surveys
1996-2006. The findings of the study show that over...
by Shahnaz Hamid | On 20 Jan 2012 The paper studies the subsidy policy in Bangladesh. It analyses implications of subsidy policies; both pros and cons and also suggests some possible solutions.
by M Asaduzzaman | On 20 Jan 2012 The
HUNGaMA (Hunger and M alnutrition) S urvey
conducted across 112 rural districts of India in 2011
provides r eliable estimates of c hild n utrition
covering nearly 20% of Indian children. The H...
by HUNGaMa for Change HUNGaMa | On 12 Jan 2012 This article examines the relationship between women’s economic and social
empowerment in the context of extreme poverty. It is based on the findings of primary
fieldwork on the char islands of nort...
by Lucy Scott | On 11 Jan 2012 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe...
by Xi Chen | On 10 Jan 2012 The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill (LARR) is considered to be a flawed piece of legislation. An alternative method based on auction based pricing mechanism is suggested here.
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 05 Jan 2012 This paper uses a large panel database to investigate the determinants of forest clearing in
Indonesian kabupatens since 2005. The study incorporates short-run changes in prices and demand
for palm...
by David Wheeler | On 28 Dec 2011 The BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme reached 150 upazilas in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh since 2006. This study assessed the changes in the use of tubewell water and w...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 28 Dec 2011 The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 28 Dec 2011 This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water
sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states
of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the...
by Viswanathan P K | On 26 Dec 2011 A commentary on final report of the task force on domestic workers
by G.D Bino Paul | On 26 Dec 2011 The paper attempts to empirically test a naïve version of what is rather
stylistically termed as “feminisation of poverty”, using the sub-sample of
female -headed households (FHHs) from two househol...
by Umer Khalid | On 21 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 The study analyzes the role of the leasehold forestry (LHF) program in improving household welfare in Nepal. Both the time saved in biomass collection and the addition to income through increases in b...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 15 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Debt and Death in Rural India: The Punjab Story' by
Aman Sidhu and Inderjit Singh Jaijee
Sage Publications India, New Delhi,
2011, Rs 750/-, pp 360.
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 13 Dec 2011 The seasonality of poverty and food deprivation is a common feature of rural livelihoods in
Bangladesh, but it is more marked in the northwest region of Rangpur where the interlocking of seasonality...
by Shahidur Khandker | On 12 Dec 2011 India's development challenges. The India growth story was thrown off track by the global financial crisis which engulfed virtually every country in the world. We recovered from the crisis sooner than...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 30 Nov 2011 This
Report covers developments in implementation of the Convention in India
from 2006 to 2011. The harmonised guidelines for preparation of Common
Core Document and the reporting Guidelines of the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 25 Nov 2011 Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically...
by Ling Jin | On 23 Nov 2011 The present paper adopts a diagnostic approach; problems of non-farm employment in
rural sector are identified by studying pattern and process of rural employment using data
from the NSS quinquennia...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Nov 2011 It is widely agreed by economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to progress
because of its many virtues. But it is difficult to define a middle class by income in a manner t...
by Charles Kenny | On 16 Nov 2011 This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms o...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 11 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines)...
by F Ted Tschang | On 25 Oct 2011 The efficiency of urban water supply in 27 Indian cities are analyzed using data
envelopment analysis (DEA). Cities are grouped by the management structure of
their water utilities. Utilities with g...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 24 Oct 2011 There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning
commission. The official poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view
of...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2011 This study focuses on gender equality and democratic governance in the five largest states of the South Asian region, namely, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Beginning with a general...
by Seema Kazi | On 20 Oct 2011 Review of the book 'Population, Gender and Reproductive Health'.
F Ram, Sayeed Unisa and T V Sekher (eds.), Rawat publications, 2011, 416 pp, Rs 925
by K.S. James | On 20 Oct 2011 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 To ensure that the benefits to the poor go to the really poor, then there has to be proper definitions for poverty and poverty line. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ninan-poverty-...
by T.N. Ninan | On 28 Sep 2011 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food
security and climate change. Agriculture plays a significant role in
both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing
...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 26 Sep 2011 A review of the various issues related to gender and poverty and examine the relationships between gender and various indices, including the human development index (HDI), the gender inequality index...
by Midori Aoyagi | On 22 Sep 2011 The paper provides estimates of workers residing in rural (urban) India and commuting to urban (rural) areas
for work. These estimates are based on National Sample Survey Organisation’s survey of Emp...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 19 Sep 2011 This paper, examines the possibility of adopting Oil- to- Cash scheme in Iraq. Here, a new opportunity is identified which aims for direct distribution of Iraqi oil rents in the planned production exp...
by Johnny West | On 19 Sep 2011 The foundation of the new policy, known as the “National Policy for Senior Citizens 2011” is based on several factors. These include the demographic explosion among the elderly, the changing economy a...
by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment GOI | On 19 Sep 2011 This paper examines the competitiveness of the Indian garments industry vis-à-vis the other
South Asian countries Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the
garment i...
by Saon Ray | On 16 Sep 2011 This study
analyses the pollution-income relationship (for both local and global
pollution), separately across rural and urban households in India based
on unit record data on fuel consumption obta...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 14 Sep 2011 The new Bill on land acquisition recently tabled in Parliament is well intentioned but seriously flawed. Its principal defect is that it attaches an arbitrary mark-up to the historical market price to...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 12 Sep 2011 In preparing the Approach Paper, the Planning Commission has consulted much more
widely than ever before recognising the fact that citizens are now much better informed and
also keen to engage. Over...
by Planning Commission, India | On 12 Sep 2011 This paper estimates returns to education in India using a nationally representative survey. The standard Mincerian wage equation separately for rural and urban sectors is estimated. To account for th...
by Tushar Agrawal | On 06 Sep 2011 Poverty and food security in the context of Bangladesh has become a major concern
over time. While efforts have been intensified to increase crop yield through increased
land use, using inorganic fe...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 30 Aug 2011 Agro-industries are given high priority in India particularly because of their great potential
for contributing to development. The emphasis on village-based agro-industries was
introduced almost a...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 29 Aug 2011 Whether viewed as “land grabs” or as agricultural investment
for development, large-scale land deals by investors
in developing countries are generating considerable
attention. However, investors,...
by Julia Behrman | On 29 Aug 2011 Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or
domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy
dilemma: a fall...
by Sandra Polaski | On 26 Aug 2011 This paper deals with migration into India from adjoining neighbours and its impact on security and other issues of national interest. Unlike other studies on migration, it focuses on the ethnic ident...
by Subhakanta Behera | On 26 Aug 2011 This paper uses the most recent wave of Consumer Expenditure
Survey 2004-05 to examine the distribution of Out of Pocket (OOP)
healthcare payments in India. The purpose of the paper is threefold;
f...
by William Joe | On 25 Aug 2011 This study provides a profile of deprivation with respect to consumer expenditure,
cereal consumption and energy intake across demographic and agro-climatic regions
as defined by the National Sample...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 23 Aug 2011 The main objective of this paper is to examine the patterns of gender differences for children in the north state of Haryana in India for health outcomes. Specifically it addresses the incidence, and...
by Suresh Sharma | On 23 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 There is a need to
focus more on the economic well-being
of the farmers, rather than just on
production. Socio-economic well-being
must be a prime consideration of
agricultural policy, besides pr...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 19 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It anal...
by Anil Markandya | On 19 Aug 2011 The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, an...
by Arup Mitra | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of
population for 2004-05 by using the old and new methods of the Planning Commission. The new m...
by Durgesh C Pathak | On 17 Aug 2011 The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated
with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, a...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 17 Aug 2011 Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements
go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of
poverty...
by Nora Lustig | On 11 Aug 2011 Given the declining share of traditional agricultural commodities in production, consumption and
trade, horticulture and other non-traditional high-value agriculture represent an important area of
p...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 09 Aug 2011 The study seeks to examine the extent of financial inclusion in West Bengal. It is observed from
the study that although there has been an improvement in outreach activity in the banking sector,
the...
by Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay | On 03 Aug 2011 The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a...
by Amita Shah | On 02 Aug 2011 Health care systems are
necessary in all countries, the importance
of strong health care systems to fragile
nations, and the damage done to these
systems during conflict, receive less attention
t...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 29 Jul 2011 The ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) control programme of BRAC has been in
operation for the last few years. No independent evaluation has so far been
conducted to explore how far the objectives of...
by Qazi Shafayetul Islam | On 28 Jul 2011 In this paper, the overall goal is to examine the impact of the Rural
Primary School Merger Program on academic performance of students using a dataset from a
survey that we designed to reflect tran...
by Alexis Medina | On 27 Jul 2011 This note examines recent trends in the labor market and employment situation in Bangladesh and draws some policy implications keeping the poverty reduction imperatives in view. [BB PP No. 0807]. URL:...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 26 Jul 2011 The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well
recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and
catalyzing functional link...
by Jancy Ayyaswamy | On 26 Jul 2011 The rural-urban distribution of the population is shown. URL:[http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/india/paper2_1.pdf].
by | On 21 Jul 2011 The general perception that dentistry is expensive keeps many people away from
seeking treatment from registered professionals and make them hostage to the
services of non-registered lay practitione...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 20 Jul 2011 A documentation of different aspects of human deprivation in the old age other than the
measurement of income poverty is done. Aspects of economic, health and social aspects of
deprivation and how i...
by Syam Prasad | On 14 Jul 2011 The empowered group of ministers on food on Monday approved the draft National Food Security Bill, bringing the ambitious social security programme that guarantees highly subsidized food grains to abo...
by Economic Times ET | On 12 Jul 2011 The study highlights interlinkages amongst district level poverty, socioeconomic developmental indices, RCH-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight...
by S C Gulati | On 11 Jul 2011 BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of
poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. In recent years, BRAC has extended
its activities to include the urba...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 11 Jul 2011 The economic crisis hit many countries in 2007 and the effects are still being felt, especially in poorer developing nations. Much of the debate surrounding the economic crisis and its impacts has foc...
by Azra Abdul Cader | On 11 Jul 2011 New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data ana...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 08 Jul 2011 This paper
focuses on the Don Sahong Dam (DSD’s) potential impacts on fish and fisheries, and particularly the project’s
regional implications in relation to fisheries, including its possible impact...
by Ian Bird | On 08 Jul 2011 This paper examines challenges associated with early stages of decentralizing the
administration and management of forest resources. It is based on review of literature
on forest, decentralization a...
by Aruna Kumar Monditoka | On 07 Jul 2011 Growth, poverty reduction, and social peace are all undermined when public expenditure management and taxation are weak and when the fiscal deficit and public debt are not managed successfully. And la...
by Tony Addison | On 04 Jul 2011 The economy of Orissa has been lagging behind the national economy by several decades. Its
per capita net state domestic product, a measure of average income, stood at Rs.20200 for
2006-07 which fal...
by Manoj Panda | On 04 Jul 2011 Sah and Shah (2003) have shown that the incidence of poverty in the South-Western tribal belt of Madhya Pradesh is alarmingly high. About three fifths of the households in this tribal belt were catego...
by D.C. Sah | On 04 Jul 2011 This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It
was found that poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main
...
by Durgesh Chandra Pathak | On 01 Jul 2011 Disparities in income and living standards across countries and between regions within countries (spatial inequality) have been the subject of much debate and research in recent years. Spatial inequal...
by Hari Nagarajan | On 01 Jul 2011 Many of the world’s poorest countries can be described as 'fragile states' wherein governments cannot or will not provide an environment for households to reduce, mitigate, or cope with poverty and ot...
by Wim Naudé | On 23 Jun 2011 The interface between environment and poverty is a complex phenomenon. Poverty reduction needs will be enabled if the poor are allowed access to natural capital, such as land, water, forest and minera...
by Amita Shah | On 23 Jun 2011 This paper briefly reviews the literature on economic growth and poverty and then examines whether economic growth influences poverty dynamics. The literature relating to the impact of economic growth...
by Shashanka Bhide | On 22 Jun 2011 In order to tackle the issues of desertification, land degradation and droughts, 22 major
programmes are being implemented in the country, including, the “Mission for Green India”,
one of the Missio...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 21 Jun 2011 The slowdown and in some years reversal of poverty reduction in China forcefully demonstrates that growth is not sufficient for combating poverty even if that growth is of unprecedented magnitude. Pol...
by Guanghua Wan | On 16 Jun 2011 This paper analyses a panel dataset on 379 rural households in Bangladesh
interviewed in 1987/88 and 2000. Using a ‘livelihoods’ framework it contrasts the fortunes of
ascending households (which es...
by Binayak Sen | On 16 Jun 2011 For the revival of rural
cooperative credit institutions, a Working Group was constituted by
NABARD to formulate and suggest comprehensive human resource
guidelines for the State Cooperative Bank (...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 15 Jun 2011 The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analysed evidence on the extent of spatial inequalities within developing countries. The studies find that spatial...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 15 Jun 2011 This paper presents findings from research into expectations of government, based on
focus group discussion sessions with over 100 poor and very poor people in rural and
urban Bangladesh. The resear...
by Tariq Ali | On 15 Jun 2011 Diarrhoea is a common water-borne disease amongst slum children
in Bangladesh and is one of the five leading causes of infant
illness and death in the country. Now, a new SANDEE study
has looked at...
by South Asian Network for Development and Environmen Economics | On 14 Jun 2011 In Bangladesh, as in many developing countries, there is a widespread belief
amongst the public, policymakers and social workers that children ‘abandon’ their
families and migrate to the street beca...
by Alessandro Conticini | On 14 Jun 2011 The article is a report of RBI Minister Duvvuri Subbarao on issuesing concerning the G-20 countries and also issues effecting all the countries collectively.
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 13 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side
issue? This paper examines school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in sc...
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 Jun 2011 Polarization in India is analysed roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption
expenditure data. It is seen that polarization has increased sharply since the 1990s, reversing the earlie...
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 Jun 2011 The paper explores the linkages between ‘Education’ and ‘Poverty’ and the possibility of poverty
reduction through better employment opportunities. The paper proceeds with the understanding that
pov...
by Rushidan Islam Rahman | On 13 Jun 2011 This paper examines the role of assets and liabilities in socio-economic mobility patterns using findings from 293 life-history interviews, conducted by the author and a small team of researchers in r...
by Peter Davis | On 10 Jun 2011 The objective of this research and policy brief is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely incon...
by Alain de Janvry | On 10 Jun 2011 Using findings from a mixed-methods study of poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh, including from 293 life history interviews, the paper explores how the alternative stance of viewing poverty dynamics...
by Peter Davis | On 09 Jun 2011 The paper explores the vulnerability and persistence of poverty amongst the rural households
in the disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh. It draws upon some of the factors and processes
that have prev...
by Quazi Shahabuddin | On 08 Jun 2011 This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its
poverty and social indicators over the last one and a half decades. Several key social and
human developmen...
by Zulfiqar Ali | On 07 Jun 2011 In this study, the Cambodian socioeconomic survey for 1997 and the
country’s population census of 1998 has been combined to produce poverty measures at the commune-level
in Cambodia using the small-...
by Tomoki Fujii | On 06 Jun 2011 This paper explores whether child labourers come from, not only the poor, but also the
poorest households in Bangladesh or not. The paper also tries to explain what determines the
participation of c...
by Zulfiqar Ali | On 03 Jun 2011 The present paper is a study of the impact of salinity ingress on the rural households in the coastal regions of Gujarat. The paper throws up some important insights which appear policy relevant.
by Jyothis Sathyapalan | On 02 Jun 2011 This paper examines the relationship between women’s vulnerability to poverty and their management of domestic natural resources. It finds that gendered experiences of poverty often derive from discri...
by Jessica Espey | On 01 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply
side or a demand side issue? School attendance and total human capital
investment time (time in school plus travel ti...
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Jun 2011 This paper explores the nature of vulnerability and its relationship to chronic poverty in rural Bangladesh drawing from 293 life-history interviews conducted by the author and a small team of researc...
by Peter Davis | On 31 May 2011 This operational research aimed to assess the acceptability, comprehensibility and
reported influence of behaviour change communication tools such as interpersonal
communications (IPC), print mate...
by Atiya Rahman | On 30 May 2011 In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its
progress against both child and adult undernutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian...
by Derek Headey | On 27 May 2011 Bangladesh is a poor country with nearly half (48%) of the population living on the wrong side of the poverty line. The health status of the population has remained poor. The socioeconomic inequality...
by Abdullahel Hadi | On 25 May 2011 This study reveals the importance of tank irrigation in the lives of poor households and suggests that the poor may bear the bulk of the burden from tank deterioration. Tank-based agricultural income...
by South Asian Network for Development and Environmen Economics | On 19 May 2011 Despite the long history of accommodation and tolerance of diversity and multiculturalism that
constituted a previous generation of Bengali culture and nationalism, it is evident that in
Banglades...
by South Asians for Human Rights | On 13 May 2011 National Budget of the country is the annual program of the Government's expenditure and income for a fiscal year. In a developing economy like Bangladesh, the national annual budgets reflect the gove...
by Atiur Rahman | On 03 May 2011 This paper analyzes some of the elements that cause the apparent perception in the realm of social
policy, and in particular in the case of poverty alleviation and education policies in developing
...
by Miguel Székely | On 02 May 2011 The paper is an attempt to deal with pros and cons of deregulating savings deposit interest rate and take on board the suggestions of various stakeholders for either maintaining the status quo or dere...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 02 May 2011 The study suggests an approach to reduce India’s sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India’s sensitive list with th...
by Nisha Taneja | On 29 Apr 2011 The excellent systematic review in this
week’s PLoS Medicine by Paul Garner and
colleagues focuses discussion on this
critical issue. Their finding of poor quality
in both the public and private s...
by Jishnu Das | On 29 Apr 2011 The paper examines the poverty status of 4,198 households resident in 18 villages of Rajasthan, India, at four points of time between 1977 to 2010 using retrospective methodology known as Stages of Pr...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 20 Apr 2011 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China
made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed
to predict the e...
by Monica Martinez Bravo | On 18 Apr 2011 This paper introduces a theoretical model combining household production with an endogenous
risk framework in order to understand how ex-ante private spending by coastal households
would evolve agai...
by Sakib Mahmud | On 01 Apr 2011 This paper discusses policy responses to the spatial dimensions of poverty. [CPRC Working Paper 168] URL: [http://www.chronicpoverty.org/uploads/publication_files/WP168%20Higgins-Bird-Harris.pdf]
by Kate Higgins | On 24 Mar 2011 A
BILL
further to amend the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Banking Companies (Acquisition
and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 and the Banking Companies (Acquisition
and Transfer of Undertak...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 23 Mar 2011 State income, public finances, agriculture and animal husbandry, education, health, population etc are given importance in the economic survey. URL: [http://mahades.maharashtra.gov.in/files/publicatio...
by Maharashtra Government | On 23 Mar 2011 This paper demonstrates how urban spatial poverty traps exist in developing countries and makes the case for including an urban focus to spatial poverty analysis and policy responses. It frames this w...
by Ursula Grant | On 23 Mar 2011 Poverty has different and varying manifestations. In fact, Hulme et al (2001) proposes a five-tiered categorisation of poverty. This identifies the always poor, usually poor, churning poor, occasional...
by Quazi Shahabuddin | On 22 Mar 2011 Tsunamis, hurricanes, tidal bores and other large
storms threaten many coastal communities in
Bangladesh. With climate change, the frequency
of such natural disasters is expected to rise and
it is...
by Sakib Mahmud | On 21 Mar 2011 The population and poverty nexus is not new but remains an important development issue for many countries. Recent research has added the crucial dimension of vulnerability to poverty to the debate on...
by Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. | On 21 Mar 2011 The main objectives of the study were to analyze
the role of non-timber forest products in poverty
alleviation in Chhattisgarh; to examine the system of
governance, institutional framework and prog...
by R S Deshpande | On 17 Mar 2011 One reason anti-poverty policy has not worked better than it has is because, one went into it naively, without enough of an understanding of what makes it hard. This essay is about what the author hav...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 16 Mar 2011 The State of the World's Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulner...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 14 Mar 2011 This article argues that the extreme poor warrant specific analytical and policy focus. It
attempts to identify the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh by devising sensitive targeting
indicators that a...
by Binayak Sen | On 09 Mar 2011 Internal migration in Southeast Asia raises questions about strains upon traditional systems
of support for older adults. While remittances to parents’ households play a role in rural
household econ...
by Zachary Zimmer | On 08 Mar 2011 While the Government of India has several schemes for augmenting agricultural production and ensuring adequate availability of food for different segments, a Bill to provide a statutory framework to e...
by Government of India GOI | On 04 Mar 2011 Based on the recommendations the National Advisory Council had already communicated to the Government, as a first step towards preparing the draft National Food Security Bill, a detailed Framework Not...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 04 Mar 2011 As agreed by the NAC at its meeting on July 14th, 2010, a Working Group of Members of the NAC was constituted on the National Food Security Bill. After due deliberations and wide ranging consultations...
by Harsh Mander | On 04 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 This report is a call to policy makers and concerned citizens to use this talisman, to
redeem the pledges made by the Constituent Assembly and to recognise the fact that the numbers and proportions o...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 22 Feb 2011 This Policy Brief is an outcome of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Social Development Indicators'. The overall aim of the project was to provide insights into how human well-being might be better conc...
by David Clark | On 18 Feb 2011 The report analyzes the present case scenario of the disease control programs in India.
by Ravi Duggal | On 15 Feb 2011 This paper analyzes parents‘ decisions about girls‘ schooling in the context of
marriage through in-depth exploration of case studies in two rural areas of northern
Bangladesh. The villages are site...
by Sajeda Amin | On 15 Feb 2011 This study examines the influence of household poverty experienced during early
childhood on early marriage and outcomes in schooling and workforce participation for girls
during adolescence in Nepa...
by Ashish Bajracharya | On 14 Feb 2011 This report addresses the recent dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh with particular focus on two groups of the poorest - the chronically poor and the extreme poor - based on the 64-village census...
by Zulfiqar Ali | On 14 Feb 2011 The Presidential address to parliament at its first session of the year pays tribute to the heroes and martyrs of the nation, elaborates on Bangaldesh's achievement in industry, agriculture, education...
by Zillur Rahman | On 08 Feb 2011 Employing data from Census 2001and the NSS 52nd and 60th rounds, this study examines the following: (i) inter-state variations in the distribution of rural aged by three broad social groups and a host...
by Moneer Alam | On 02 Feb 2011 Since 2005, every year the ASER report presents estimates of enrollment and basic reading and arithmetic learning outcomes for every district in rural India. Every year the core set of questions
rega...
by Pratham Pratham | On 02 Feb 2011 43 villages in Bangladesh were randomized to receive information on well-water arsenic that emphasized water safety relative to the national standard (bright-line message) or provided additional infor...
by Lori Bennear | On 02 Feb 2011 This paper considers how the official poverty line in India would have to change, if it were to be set at a level that allowed urban households to afford minimally adequate accommodation. It discusses...
by S. Chandrashekar | On 02 Feb 2011 Bangladesh is making consistent progress in poverty reduction since early 1990s. According to
Household Income-Expenditure Surveys, poverty rate has declined from more than 60% in 1990-
91 to just a...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 01 Feb 2011 While this growth is impressive, a number of studies both in India and abroad have questioned whether growth alone is effective in addressing poverty and what the adverse consequences of a too rapid g...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 30 Jan 2011 The NEC Shillong has assigned the National Institute of Rural Development,
North Eastern Regional Centre (NIRD-NERC), Guwahati to prepare a report
on “Poverty Eradication in the North Eastern Region...
by Ministry for Development of the North East (DONER) | On 28 Jan 2011 This study aimed to explore the causes, types, and consequences of authorship conflicts among
the researchers of selected research institutions in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and suggest ways to
reduce confl...
by Hasan Shareef Ahmed | On 27 Jan 2011 Many of the world’s poorest and most fragile states are joining the ranks of oil and gas producers. These
countries face critical policy questions about managing and spending new revenue in a way tha...
by Todd Moss | On 25 Jan 2011 The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to
poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income
inequality. The focus is on the p...
by Augustin Kwasi Fosu | On 25 Jan 2011 Small and medium enterprises (SME) in Bangladesh are playing a vital
role to stimulate economic development including alleviation of poverty
through employment generation. Small and medium enterpris...
by MA Quaiyum Sarkar | On 25 Jan 2011 The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to
reduce poverty in general and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in
particular. In addition,...
by Sakiko Fukuda- Parr | On 21 Jan 2011 The BRAC WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) programme was initiated in 150 upazilas in three
phases (50 in each phase) aiming to improve water, sanitation and hygiene conditions in rural
Banglades...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 21 Jan 2011 To facilitate achieving national target of 100 percent sanitation in Bangladesh by the year 2013,
BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme has been working in 150 upazilas for
improving w...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 21 Jan 2011 Educational studies in Bangladesh are mostly quantitative in nature – broadly based on survey methods. However, the cases prepared for this study employed qualitative research techniques, where an eth...
by . BRAC | On 19 Jan 2011 Exclusion is a term that comes up often in association with poverty, social
welfare and social injustice. Development interventions are designed with some
notion of benefiting or including the exclu...
by Sajjad Zohir | On 18 Jan 2011 The combination of safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation facilities is a
precondition for health and for success in the fight against poverty, hunger, child
death, and gender inequality. It is...
by . BRAC | On 18 Jan 2011 Malaria re-emerged as one of the major public health problems in Bangladesh in the 1990s. Out
of the total 64 administrative districts, 13 are in the malaria endemic areas and the three Hill Tract
D...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 18 Jan 2011 This study has explored the impact of the rise in food prices on the
education of children in the poor and vulnerable households in
Bangladesh. A survey was conducted on these households in five
di...
by Selim Raihan | On 17 Jan 2011 This Policy Brief discusses whether
Bangladesh should continue to pursue
a national food security strategy based
on self-reliance or return to its earlier
policy of food self-sufficiency through
...
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 17 Jan 2011 The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and
inequality in cities of the ‘global south’. Specifically it addresses the impact of
globalization on marginalize...
by Janice E. Perlman | On 13 Jan 2011 This study assesses the impact of participation in the social forestry program of Proshika on the environmental literacy of participating households in Bangladesh. Proshika--a non-governmental organiz...
by Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury | On 13 Jan 2011 The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has intensified the implementation
of the directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) strategy with the
primary aims (i) to detect and treat at least 70% of T...
by Fazlul Karim | On 12 Jan 2011 Vietnam’s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest
in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (‘renovation’) economic reform
programme in 1986. The...
by John Thoburn | On 11 Jan 2011 MANOSHI, an integrated community-based package of essential Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
(MNCH) services is being implemented by BRAC in the urban slums of Bangladesh since 2007. The objective...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 11 Jan 2011 During the last decade, Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR) gained enormous
currency in rural development arena as an informal justice institution in
Bangladesh and BRAC’s HRLS Programme has contr...
by Debasish Kumar Kundu | On 11 Jan 2011 To facilitate access of ultra poor households to qualified allopathic care, especially for moderate-tosevere
and chronic morbidities, the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the
...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 10 Jan 2011 The Char Development and Settlement Project (CDSP) was a joint initiative of the
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Government of Bangladesh to
achieve sustainable livelihood developm...
by Wameq Raza | On 10 Jan 2011 The paper examines various aspects of development of minority in Vietnam.
by Bob Baulch | On 07 Jan 2011 Bourguignon and Fields (‘Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy’) and
Gangopadhyay and Subramanian (‘Optimal Budgetary Intervention in Poverty
Alleviation Schemes’) have derived optimal budgeta...
by S. Subramanian | On 07 Jan 2011 Endemic poverty is the stark reality that one confronts immediately about rural Bangladesh. Almost
50% of the rural households are now bereft of any visible resources, which could enable them to eke
...
by Monirul Islam Khan | On 06 Jan 2011 This study assessed the sex preferences in intra-household food distribution among school going siblings
in a rural area of Bangladesh. The study also examines the effect of women's involvement in BR...
by Rita Das Roy | On 06 Jan 2011 The use of monetary policy in India has been constrained by a loose fiscal policy and capital flows. Capital inflows have the potential to cause a Dutch Disease-type situation. The RBI has carried out...
by Partha Sen | On 06 Jan 2011 Financial and development assistance designed specially for small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh is a new and upcoming trend. After the surge of micro-finance in the last two decades, small and...
by Mehnaz Rabbani | On 05 Jan 2011 Bangladesh’s progress in economic growth and extensive social
protection interventions have contributed to a reduction in the
headcount poverty rate of around 1.5 percentage points a year since the
...
by Akhter U. Ahmed | On 03 Jan 2011 The paper focuses on the non-linearity of the transmission of the impact of globalization
on poverty and the existence of threshold effects. Institutions constitute a critical factor
for the creatio...
by Alice Sindzingre | On 31 Dec 2010 The costs of skilled maternal and newborn care are major obstacles to
access. This cross-sectional study of 1,200 married women, who had a
live birth in the previous year, analyzed the costs incurre...
by Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan | On 31 Dec 2010 The use of insecticidal bed nets is found to be an effective public health tool for control of malaria, especially
for under-five children and pregnant women. BRAC, an indigenous Bangladeshi non-gove...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 31 Dec 2010 In 1992, BRAC extended its comprehensive Rural Development Programme (RDP) to 100 villages of
Matlab thana (sub-district) where the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
(...
by Marty Chen | On 30 Dec 2010 Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper investigates the link
between female status and food security. Employing three different indicators of female
status – husband’s an...
by Mohammad A. Razzaque | On 29 Dec 2010 This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which
combines the data-generating procedure of Shorrocks and Wan (2004) with the Shapley
value framework of Shorrocks (1999...
by Yin Zhang | On 29 Dec 2010 Bangladesh is popularly described in the literature as a ‘test case for development’ in view of the
complex nature of its socioeconomic and cultural problems, coupled with severe resource constraints...
by Mushtaque Chowdhury | On 29 Dec 2010 The basic objective of this study was to look at the profit rates made by VO members once they have
made investments in projects financed through BRAC loans. BRAC’s twin objectives of employment and
...
by Hassan Zaman | On 28 Dec 2010 Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper explores the determinants of
domestic violence against women as well as its implications for the resources allocated to
women. The fi...
by Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique | On 27 Dec 2010 The study was designed with the intention of developing a viable scale, for measuring psychological well-being as an indicator of the quality of life of rural women. A scale was prepared and finalised...
by Mohsina Khatun | On 27 Dec 2010 This paper looks at BRAC’s Rural Development Programmes’ (RDP) interventions and consumption
based poverty using household expenditure data collected from 3518 households in fourteen villages
in Mat...
by Hassan Zaman | On 24 Dec 2010 Any fluid other than breast milk given first time to a newborn is defined as pre-lacteal feeding. Present study describes the extent and nature of pre-lacteal feeding practices among rural mothers in...
by Sabah Tarannum | On 24 Dec 2010 The impact of globalization on poverty is a matter of keen debate but empirical work in
this area has been dominated by cross-country regressions. This paper attempts to link
the more macro impact...
by Rhys Jenkins | On 23 Dec 2010 Livelihoods of the rural poor in developing countries are critically dependent on the
health of the local ecosystems. In this paper they examine the various mechanisms
through which globalization...
by Rimjhim M. Aggarwal | On 23 Dec 2010 In Bangladesh, patriarchal norms, ideology and social institutions shape women's role and
status in the society. Within this patriarchal system, some forces like NGOs may affect the
relationship bet...
by Amina Mahbub | On 23 Dec 2010 Large-scale antipoverty programs have achieved significant and positive results in many developing countries around the world in the past decade. This paper explores the challenges of “scaling up” sma...
by Raj M. Desai | On 21 Dec 2010 This study examines the marginal productivity of water and other inputs in dry season rice production in Bangladesh. Agriculture is the major water using sector in Bangladesh, but water is in shortsup...
by Nasima Tanveer Chowdhury | On 17 Dec 2010 Health evidence confirms that the
burden of disease associated with inadequate
Hygience, Sanitation, Water (HSW) is overwhelmingly (although
not exclusively) carried by the poor and
disadvantaged...
by Jamie Bartram | On 16 Dec 2010 The paper argues
that while Bangladesh is reported to have more NGOs per capita than other
developing countries, those organisations have gradually abandoned social mobilising and collective action...
by Naila Kabeer | On 14 Dec 2010 There is a high prevalence of antepartum depression and low birth weight (LBW) in Bangladesh. In
high- and low-income countries, prior evidence linking maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms with i...
by Hashima E Nasreen | On 14 Dec 2010 Border ADP (Adolescent Development Programme) was implemented in the
border areas of Bangladesh. Main objective of this programme was to make the
adolescents, their parents and the communities aware...
by Jinnat Ara | On 14 Dec 2010 This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic
growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic
pattern of change in income d...
by Arne Bigsten | On 09 Dec 2010 Agribusiness is the single largest sector of the economy in many developing countries and is growing fast. The present paper examines the situation of agribusiness in different countries of South Asia...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 09 Dec 2010 Rural e-Governance applications in the recent past have demonstrated the important role the
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play in the realm of rural
development. Several e-Governa...
by T.P. Rama Rao | On 07 Dec 2010 This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview
is given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of
indicators: those meas...
by Andrew Sumner | On 03 Dec 2010 Over the last decade, India has been one of the fastest growing economies, and has
experienced considerable decline in overall income poverty. However, in a vast country
like India, poverty levels v...
by Shatakshee Dhongde | On 03 Dec 2010 This paper makes an attempt to identify major factors, like currency forfeiting, loan default, capital shortfall, capital flight, etc which undermine consumer confidence in the financial services sect...
by Md. Kabir Ahmed Chowdhury | On 02 Dec 2010 This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in
terms of poverty that compels a household to keep its children out of school and put
them to work in the cau...
by D. Jayaraj | On 02 Dec 2010 There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain
from trade openness, as one aspect of ‘globalization’. The paper views the issue through
both ‘macro’ and ‘micro’...
by Martin Ravallion | On 02 Dec 2010 This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the
Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component
analysis. They indicate...
by Almas Heshmati | On 30 Nov 2010 The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization,
within and across nations. It reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global
inequality and argues,...
by Kaushik Basu | On 29 Nov 2010 The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization-
poverty nexus, focusing on channels and linkages through which globalization affects
the poor. After intro...
by Machiko Nissanke | On 26 Nov 2010 Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF
and World Bank, reduces the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does
reduce poverty, but the author find...
by William Easterly | On 19 Nov 2010 This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop
successive poverty profiles for Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high
growth followed by rapi...
by Jed Friedman | On 11 Nov 2010 Although the overall economic performance of economies in South Asia in recent years has been impressive, there is concern that an aging and increasingly inadequate infrastructure may limit the potent...
by John Gilbert | On 01 Nov 2010 Remittances are increasingly becoming an important source of external financing for the developing countries. For some of the developing countries, it forms almost 40-50% of their GDP. Though there is...
by Rashmi Banga | On 29 Oct 2010 A developing economy like India is often characterised by a labour market with demand and supply of labour and a wage that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household t...
by Diganta Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 The present paper compares the strategies, capacity building processes and outcomes/impacts of three projects during the period 2005-10. The project area covered by the study are located as follows:
...
by Neela Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 The Asian region has experienced substantial growth over the past several decades. Indeed,
a quarter of all world exports now come from East Asia. Strong infrastructure underpinnings
have often been...
by Susan Stone | On 28 Oct 2010 This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the
current findings of recent research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are
defined by the dono...
by Mark McGillivray | On 21 Oct 2010 The Prime Minister's economic package and offer of unconditional talks announced on the
occasion of his visit to the Northeast last October has aroused great expectations in the Region. The
conseque...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2010 Mail questions addressed in this paper are: What is the cognitive perception of Muslim women on their own status in their community?
How do the Muslim women perceive their status when compared to the...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Oct 2010 It outlines the broad framework and the strategy for poverty
reduction based on four pillars: (a) accelerating economic growth while maintaining the
macroeconomic stability; (b) improving the govern...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 19 Oct 2010 There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income
inequality and growth, manifested in a number of important publications. In parallel with
this, concern with the imp...
by Jennifer Mbabazi | On 19 Oct 2010 The construction of Tipaimukh dam by India on the international Barak river has raises a number of questions in relation to successful implementation of World Commission on Dams (WCD) recommendation o...
by Zakir Kibria | On 19 Oct 2010 The paper examines the potential impact of
wages and assets created under NREGS on local economies and discusses
policy implications for ensuring realization of the potential. The specific
objectiv...
by Amita Shah | On 18 Oct 2010 This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three-
decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of
finding work and income for n...
by Reema Nanavaty | On 15 Oct 2010 This paper seeks to examine the extent, nature and structural factors (social, physical and
legal) leading to poverty in southern region of Orissa, which has a dubious distinction of
having the high...
by Amita Shah | On 14 Oct 2010 This paper empirically explores the present relationship between inflation and economic growth in the context of Bangladesh. Using annual data set on real GDP and CPI for the period of 1980 to 2005, a...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 14 Oct 2010 This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order
which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the
economy and leaves th...
by Rehman Sobhan | On 13 Oct 2010 Childhood, adolescence and early adulthood remain for many
girls and young women a period of deprivation, danger and
vulnerability, resulting in a signifcant lack of agency and
critical developm...
by Nicola Jones | On 12 Oct 2010 Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules
for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient
transaction rules...
by Ke-young Chu | On 12 Oct 2010 China’s consumers are better understood when looked at as two distinct classes: urban consumers and rural consumers. The urban households are much richer than their rural counterparts and consume thre...
by Syetarn Hansakul | On 12 Oct 2010 In this paper they examine whether absorptive capacity can constitute sufficient
justification for rejecting the proposal of a large aid increase to support the ‘big push’.
They argue that the pro...
by Patrick Guillaumont | On 08 Oct 2010 The global financial crisis and the resulting economic slowdown may be assumed to have at
least the benefit of also reducing environmental degradation in the individual countries. This
paper discu...
by Venkatachalam Anbumozhi | On 07 Oct 2010 Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick-
start their economies in response to the financial crisis. Fortunately, a great opportunity
exists for this fis...
by Fukuya Lino | On 06 Oct 2010 In many parts of Bangladesh water scarcity is a
seasonal problem. An assessment is done to understand whether water is being used
efficiently for the cultivation of one of the most
important food c...
by Nasima Tanveer Chowdhury | On 05 Oct 2010 This study attempts to quantify the links between infrastructure investment and poverty reduction using a multi-region general equilibrium model, supplemented with household survey data for the Greate...
by Susan Stone | On 05 Oct 2010 Chronic poverty trends cannot be examined without considering the impact of various social conflicts afflicting a region. It is true that all forms of poverty cannot be explained by conflicts as much...
by N.R. Mohanty | On 04 Oct 2010 Poverty remains to be the most important development issue facing India with an estimated 301.72 million Indians (27.5 percent) living below the poverty line in 2004-2005. In 1975, Ralegan Siddhi was...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 04 Oct 2010 India experienced high economic growth in the 1990s. Some earlier studies, which attempted to identify the influence of growth on poverty dynamics in the country by including growth variables among th...
by Nidhi Dhamija | On 04 Oct 2010 It is an empirical fact that it is very difficult to balance economic growth, poverty reduction, and environment protection, particularly for developing and transitional economies. While the economic...
by Kaliappa Kalirajan | On 04 Oct 2010 In September, world leaders will assemble in New York to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Ahead of the ensuing discussions, we examine how individual countries are fari...
by Benjamin Leo | On 29 Sep 2010 In spite of continued growth, millions of Ugandans remain in long-term, extreme poverty. They are also likely to continue being by-passed by the opportunities that economic growth offers, mostly to th...
by John De Coninck | On 24 Sep 2010 Development trustees have increasingly sought to challenge chronic poverty by promoting citizenship amongst poor people, a move that frames citizenship formation as central to overcoming the exclusion...
by Sam Hickey | On 24 Sep 2010 This paper studies the impact of taxation on poverty and ex ante vulnerability of households
in rural China based on national household survey data in 1988, 1995 and 2002. It has been
confirmed that...
by Katsushi S. Imai | On 21 Sep 2010 Development within the framework of economic reforms is often equated to growth
rates which are highlighted as the only solution to all problems – be it poverty,
unemployment or inequalities based...
by Neetha N | On 21 Sep 2010 This study undertakes impact analysis of remittances on poverty in developing countries at two levels. Firstly, it estimates the impact of remittances on poverty in 77 developing countries; Secondly,...
by Rashmi Banga | On 17 Sep 2010 This paper investigates the socio-economic determinants of school attendance in India, and the
possible causes of disadvantage faced by the girl child. Based on Census data for 1981 and 1991, the
de...
by Usha Jayachandran | On 17 Sep 2010 This paper speaks to companies seeking practical ways to alleviate global poverty. The
private sector has several inherent competitive advantages to bring to bear in this effort
through which they c...
by Staci Warden | On 15 Sep 2010 Against the backdrop of policy of reservation of seats in Higher Education for the
Other Backward Castes in India, this paper examines two inter-related yet distinct
issues: (i) the use of economi...
by K. Sundaram | On 14 Sep 2010 This paper addresses gender equity in parents‘ educational investments in children in a
context of rising school attendance in rural Bangladesh. Our premise is that in addition to factors
such as sc...
by Sajeda Amin | On 13 Sep 2010 The literature on Rural Non-Agricultural Employment (RNAE) in India is replete with
references as to its nature - whether or not it is residual. Vaidyanathan (1986)
advanced the view that for the se...
by C. S. Murty | On 08 Sep 2010 Natural resources perform multiple functions as a driver, maintainer, potential exit route, and also an effective escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agr...
by Amita Shah | On 17 Aug 2010 The policies including that of
‘World Bank’ and the recent ‘Indian Health Report (WHO) 2000’, now recognise the
importance of investing in health & also providing for a ‘safety net’ for the poor and...
by Samir K. Mondal | On 12 Aug 2010 This paper compares the latest estimates of poverty (1999–2000) made by the
Planning Commission with earlier estimates of the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the
methodology and database used for estim...
by K.L. Datta | On 11 Aug 2010 Information plays a vital role in lives of individuals/groups for development and growth. Just information does not serve the purpose, but accurate information does. The sources/tools/techniques used...
by Rajanish Dass | On 06 Aug 2010 This study examined poverty across 28 Indian states, concluding that “81 percent of people are multidimensionally poor in Bihar—more than any other state. Also, poverty in Bihar and Jharkand is most i...
by Arun Kumar | On 05 Aug 2010 This paper is based on a set of village visits carried out by the authors as part of a study on rural housing
sponsored by Holcim Limited. The views expressed here are those of the authors. [Working...
by Shashanka Bhide | On 03 Aug 2010 BRAC initiated an innovative programme known as Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction
(CFPR) in 2002 to address the extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Impact assessment studies on the
first pha...
by Narayan C Das | On 02 Aug 2010 Despite the huge efforts at eliminating poverty made in India since independence, it is estimated that up to 130 million Indians live in chronic poverty – defined as poverty that endures for at least...
by Shashanka Bhide | On 29 Jul 2010 BRAC designed and implemented a project namely Kallyan project aiming to
improve the quality of life of the retrenched workers of state-owned enterprises of
Bangladesh. This study aimed to map the p...
by Narayan Chandra Das | On 28 Jul 2010
Despite the tremendous growth of mobile services in most developing countries, these have largely remained limited to urban areas. This has further aggravated the existing urban and rural divide....
by Rekha Jain | On 26 Jul 2010 The paper is a study of the relationship between poverty and environment by using a purpose-collected survey data from 535 households in 60 different villages of the Jhabua district of India. The meth...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 26 Jul 2010 Drug consumption in Thailand is high in comparison with other countries. A key factor
influencing this over consumption is advertising. Radio is the media that can easily reach a
lot of people, in...
by Tanattha Kittisopee | On 23 Jul 2010 This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulne...
by Md. Shafiul Azam | On 19 Jul 2010 In this paper we reflect on lessons learned in developing a mixed-methods approach to the study of poverty dynamics in a three phase qual-quant-qual study of poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh. We a...
by Peter Davis | On 19 Jul 2010 The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent
literature. This study considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on
poverty through quan...
by Adriaan Kalwij | On 28 Jun 2010 This paper considers the distribution of HIV testing in Botswana in 2002 and 2004. Botswana
is a country with a high prevalence of HIV in the general population and HIV testing is
considered to be a...
by Divya Rajaraman | On 25 Jun 2010 Food security is an immediate and future priority for all countries worldwide. Since
the food crisis erupted in 2008, a large number of global and regional food security
initiatives have been launch...
by Farming First | On 21 Jun 2010 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have lofty expectations regarding the
impact of official development aid. Are these expectations valid? This paper surveys the
literature on aid and growth...
by Tony Addison | On 21 Jun 2010 This paper looks at the overall performance of the CFPR/TUP programme using the 2002 baseline survey and 2005 repeat survey. All the topics covered in this study could be analysed more deeply, but tha...
by Mehnaz Rabbani | On 15 Jun 2010 The present study shows that informal barriers/para-tariff in India-Bangladesh trade are already high and further trade liberalisation without improving the infrastructure and reducing corruption woul...
by Samantak Das | On 14 Jun 2010 This paper intends first to give a brief overview of the rise and growth of some of those separatist groups, with a special focus on the Nagas, the Mizos and the Assam movement.
An analysis of the de...
by Renaud Egreteau | On 10 Jun 2010 This paper explores whether child labourers come from, not only the poor, but also the poorest households in Bangladesh or not. The paper also tries to explain what determines the participation of chi...
by | On 04 Jun 2010 This paper addresses the question of affordability to finance poverty reduction programs in a dynamic context. In doing so, it stresses the need for approaching the problem from a human rights perspec...
by Omar Haider Chowdhury | On 04 Jun 2010 This paper provides empirical evidence of the long- and short-term effects of political violence
exposure on human capital accumulation. Using a novel data set that registers all the violent acts
an...
by Gianmarco Leon | On 27 May 2010 A simple evolutionary model is used to understand the critical rate of environmental change beyond which a population must decline and go extinct. The model is used to highlight the major determinants...
by Luis-Miguel Chevin | On 21 May 2010 Until recently, India’s intransigent negotiating posture has conveyed the impression that it will not accept any
carbon emissions limits without full compensation and more stringent carbon limitation...
by David Wheeler | On 20 May 2010 Analysis of developing country cities indicates that neither policy frameworks nor infrastructural investments have kept up with urban growth, that the wrong choices with long-term consequences are be...
by Homi Kharas | On 20 May 2010 This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC face...
by Wang Dewen | On 20 May 2010 The discussion focusses on women in poverty their
concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization
and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on...
by Narayana K Banerjee | On 17 May 2010 Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to
health services; care-seeking for maternal and newborn ailments is limited;
health workers are often not skilled and co...
by Nirmala Nair | On 03 May 2010 Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country; hence, the issue of...
by Sathiabama K | On 19 Apr 2010 The principal constraint to raising living standards in this
century will come neither from scarce resources nor limited technologies. Rather it will come from our
limited capacity to discover and i...
by Paul Romer | On 12 Apr 2010 This paper attempts to
understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of
rural India and specifically examine the effectiveness of coping mechanisms adopted
by ho...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 12 Apr 2010 This paper examines the basis upon which rural and urban areas are classified as such. It looks into various criteria for the above all over the world and re-iterates the Indian definition of an ‘urba...
by V.K. Dhar | On 22 Mar 2010 The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 22 Mar 2010 This paper uses the most recent wave of Consumer Expenditure Survey 2004-05 to examine the distribution of Out of Pocket (OOP) healthcare payments in India. [WP 418].
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 05 Mar 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 04 Mar 2010 The purpose of this paper is to examine the poverty situation
in West Bengal in a multidimensional framework and to explore
possible strategies towards reduction of poverty in the state,
keeping in...
by Achin Chakraborty | On 22 Feb 2010 West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard
to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state
is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in
gener...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 Feb 2010 The paper discusses the participation of poor participate in growth, and how different forms of growth connect to poverty. Also the paper discusses important policy levers, in relation to agriculture,...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC | On 18 Feb 2010 The main issues surrounding this concern and provides a range of policy,
regulatory, and institutional measures that could help strengthen the impact of transport infrastructure on poverty reduction...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 10 Feb 2010 Based upon several field visits to the state of Andhra Pradesh to observe and analyse the social audit process initiated by the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the National Rural Employment Guaran...
by Neera Burra | On 04 Feb 2010 The objective of this study is to examine empirically the impact of monetary policy on exchange market pressure (EMP) in Bangladesh. EMP is measured as the sum of percentage change of international re...
by Sayera Younus | On 29 Jan 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 The concept of social business flows from a firm conviction that profit or benefit is not the only motivating factor for an entrepreneur and an entrepreneur can also be motivated by social goals and e...
by Mohammad Yunus | On 27 Jan 2010 This paper estimates
the storm protection benefits due to mangroves during the super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa.
By combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediate...
by Saudamini Das | On 25 Jan 2010 Using data from a survey of clients of a microfinance bank,
Khushhali Bank, in 2005, the study revisited the survey data and found that despite the
Bank’s strict poverty-targeting program used in cl...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 25 Jan 2010 The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status
of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level)...
by Pratham Pratham | On 21 Jan 2010 Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L. JeyaseelanSage publication, 2009, Pp 264, Rs. 595/-
by Sanchita Das | On 20 Jan 2010 This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely
academic with few policy insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 15 Jan 2010 This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is
demonstrated to be an impediment to sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastruct...
by Suman Bery | On 15 Jan 2010 This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in pr...
by John Kurien | On 14 Jan 2010 Discusses about the different poverty measuements.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Dec 2009 In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems. Efforts to help people switch to cleaner fuels have not been effective and fuelwood...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 18 Dec 2009 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for
rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) d...
by Hari Ram Lohano | On 10 Dec 2009 This paper presents some of the findings of our recent study on women’s representation and participation in panchayats. Some of the findings of the study (Buch; 1999) of women in panchayats after the...
by Nirmala Buch | On 04 Dec 2009 This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and explores policy options for strengthening their livelihoods through a combinatio...
by Amita Shah | On 27 Nov 2009 This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery
of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
by Prachi Shukla | On 25 Nov 2009 Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons of health across widely different settings challenging. Less data exist on the hea...
by Peter Byass | On 24 Nov 2009 This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-villa...
by Manuela Angelucci | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 The dominance of the mainstream paradigm of growth is being increasingly superseded by the Sustainable Human Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until...
by Ritu Dewan | On 20 Nov 2009 The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewe...
by Solomon Benjamin | On 16 Nov 2009 Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale
and attempts to understand gains accruing to individuals from migration,
in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analy...
by William Joe | On 16 Nov 2009 Questions about the processes of empowerment generated under each of these interventions and also suggests synergistic linkages between the two are raised.
by Joy Deshmukh Ranadive | On 13 Nov 2009 A variety of institutional forms of microfinance are being
introduced in Asia including by the ADB-and financial institutions pursue different
objectives, so it is difficult to assess how well micro...
by Richard L Meyer | On 13 Nov 2009 This brief summarizes a study evaluating the potential economic effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trad...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 11 Nov 2009 This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that
a) the caste system and economic inequality complement each other in the case of the poorer sections of Indian...
by Anand Kumar | On 10 Nov 2009 The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to 46.4 per cent in 2004-05, has been a matter of concern. The current exercise attem...
by Srijit Mishra | On 27 Oct 2009 BRAC health programme (BHP) initiated a pilot maternal, neonatal and child
health project (MNCH) in Nilphamari in 2006 to improve the health status of
women of reproductive age including neonates an...
by Shahnawaz Mohammad Rafi | On 15 Oct 2009 Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country
governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pres...
by Nora Lustig | On 09 Oct 2009 The objective of the paper is to i) understand and document the morbidity profile, ii) examine utilisation of health services, and iii) estimate approximate expenses on health care by th...
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 07 Oct 2009 Review of the most salient issues in ecological economics when the subject is applied to the field of economic development. The aim here has
not been to be scholastic but to examine the lives of the...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 06 Oct 2009 A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal wa...
by Christopher Blattman | On 05 Oct 2009 Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence
distribution and poverty, but in fact the relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most c...
by Andrew McKay | On 05 Oct 2009 This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of
nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to...
by Maja Micevska | On 30 Sep 2009 Are economic reforms and the greater role of markets responsible for growth being anti-poor and anti-equality, or is it the failure of governance in poverty-ridden states like Bihar and Jharkhand that...
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Sep 2009 The present study
attempts to capture chronic poverty in Sri Lanka by examining general information on poverty and drawing conclusions on those who are likely to be among the chronic poor.
Certain p...
by Indra Tudawe | On 17 Sep 2009 The focus is on the social discrimination trap, which highlights the ways in which men and women’s, girls and boys’ experiences of poverty differ in important ways. It is also discussed how understand...
by Tim Braunholtz Speight | On 01 Sep 2009 The report attempts to contextualize the exploitation of those who are aafected by the one of the worst communal riots in history and document
how dominant interests have used this situation of chron...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 31 Aug 2009 This paper analyses the pattern of growth observed in the city economy of
Ahmedabad, a metropolitan city in the industrially developed state of Gujarat. The
growth of this city is placed in the cont...
by Jeemol Unni | On 17 Aug 2009 This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on the practices and effects of the Primary Education Stipend Programme, a conditio...
by Naomi Hossain | On 17 Aug 2009 The recreational demand for the Indian Sundarban, which is a World Heritage
site and a complex mangrove ecosystem that borders India and Bangladesh is estimated. Two alternative methodologies exist f...
by Indrila Guha | On 13 Aug 2009 This paper applies Carter and Barrett’s theory of assets poverty traps to a unique longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to examine the shape of the...
by Agnes Quisumbing | On 06 Aug 2009 To explore the relationship between government and BRAC in the
implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme this
qualitative research was undertaken. This involved purposive samp...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 06 Aug 2009 The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are considered as “Financial Intermediaries” or “Non-Banking Financial Intermediaries”....
by Karmakar K G | On 06 Aug 2009 The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2009 This study examines household behaviour related to fuelwood collection and use. The focus is on
identifying the behavioral transition of fuelwood-using households from collection to purchase.
The st...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 29 Jul 2009 An analysis of the Asian Development Bank-funded Khulna Jessore Drainage Rehabilitation Project by the Bangladeshi NGO Uttaran.
by Shahidul Islam | On 24 Jul 2009 This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and
methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term,
poverty and processes of migration. The paper...
by Uma Kothari | On 13 Jul 2009 Budget reactions from various sectors and by various people in the industry
by Leena Chandan | On 10 Jul 2009 The thrust of this budget on the expenditure side is twofold. Continue with the fiscal stimulus measures and extend these for another six months or one years as the case maybe. Significant among these...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Jul 2009 The method used to measure Human Development are reviewed in order to measure Human Development Index for rural AP by considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. The e...
by Jatinder S Bedi | On 07 Jul 2009 This paper provides an overview of the background, objectives, interventions and impact hypotheses of Integrated Nutrition and Health Project (INHP-II) and Chayan rural, the implementation approaches...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 Railway Budget 2009-10
by Mamata Banerjee | On 06 Jul 2009 A large number of new Shasthya Shebikas were recruited under the maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program besides the existing ones. This study attempts to explore whether and how the income...
by Mahjabeen Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 This note analyses the major characteristics of the current inflationary episode in the economy along with its probable impact on different population groups in Bangladesh. The note also draws some po...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper analyzes the effects of changes in consumption factor on the calculation of inflation calculation in Bangladesh. This is important as there might exist some volatile and non-trend components...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper estimates the P* model for Bangladesh economy and test its forecasting ability through generating recursive forecasts. The empirical result shows that the model performs relatively well and...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 This paper investigates the relative importance of monetary and fiscal policies in altering real output of Bangladesh. An unrestricted vector auto regression (VAR) framework based on the St. Louis equ...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 In recent years, Bangladesh has experienced persistent price increases, especially of food items, in the domestic market in the backdrop of global increase in food prices. Such price developments in t...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 22 Jun 2009 Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of the society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include m...
by Amit. K. Bhandari | On 16 Jun 2009 The poverty scenario in Gujarat is marked by three features: (1) low incidence of poverty (2) spatial concentration and (3) adoption of targeted policy for poverty reduction. One of the important high...
by Amita Shah | On 16 Jun 2009 Although economic growth has improved in recent years in Bangladesh, the better economic performance has not translated into satisfactory poverty reduction. The type of growth that matters Bangladesh...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 15 Jun 2009 There has been an increase in the demand for infrastructure services and opening up of the infrastructure sector for private investment. As a result, a large number of financial intermediaries and pri...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 15 Jun 2009 This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countr...
by Uma Chakravarti | On 03 Jun 2009 Bangladesh faces multiple challenges in the sanitation, hygiene and water sector. This study aims to review the damage to sanitation facilities during floods. It also explored the possibilities of ove...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 03 Jun 2009 Development scholars view corruption as a leading cause of persistent poverty in less development countries. The paper mainly studies dynamic incentives for corruption in one of the world’s largest pu...
by Paul Niehaus | On 03 Jun 2009 This paper is mainly concerned about the approaches to rural women’s development and an understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. Changes in the economic and social participation o...
by Kumud Sharma | On 03 Jun 2009 This paper seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health facilities under NRHM. On appropriate and feasible measures, the former is assessed on the static and dynam...
by Kaveri Gill | On 02 Jun 2009 The rapid spread of modern supply chains in developing countries is profoundly changing the way food is produced and traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains. W...
by Miet Maertens | On 29 May 2009 This paper seeks to provide a profile of social group disparities and poverty in India,where social groups are classified as scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other social groups, and examine the f...
by Rohit Mutatkar | On 26 May 2009 The focus of this paper is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As the concept of food miles has been an issue in organic agriculture since before the...
by Els Wynen | On 14 May 2009 To understand how gender, women’s rights and citizenship intersect with innovation in SouthAsia, one must begin by considering some of the main features of life for South Asian women, about a half of...
by Sujata Byravan | On 06 May 2009 This paper talks of good outcomes of Globalisation which needs to be further inproved wherein Institutional response mechanisms should be designed to address any problems that may arise in specific ar...
by Jagdish Bhagwati | On 03 May 2009 The rural-urban disparities are a reality in developing countries like India. Post reform, there are lot of empirical studies which has focused on this aspect of development experience in India. The v...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 01 May 2009 This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public
Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty,
vulnerability and undernutrit...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 27 Apr 2009 The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits.
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Apr 2009 The main question that the Governor is asking to the RBI staff is "how can I do my job better so that I can make a positive difference to the country?"
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 08 Apr 2009 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 24 Feb 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented activities. But th...
by Peter Sheehan | On 03 Feb 2009 Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets, plans and ambitions. While recognising some of the benefits of such approaches this p...
by David Hulme | On 21 Jan 2009 The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround
in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’.
Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide
...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Jan 2009 Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats
of peninsular India, this study examines the link between stream flow, agricultural water use and
economic returns to agric...
by SHARACHCHANDRA LELE | On 02 Jan 2009 The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was...
by Hannah Kuper | On 18 Dec 2008 This is a continuation of an earlier paper (2005) by the author which dealt with policy implications based on the work done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an a...
by N C B Nath | On 16 Dec 2008 The purpose of the ASER 2007’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level)...
by Pratham Pratham | On 12 Dec 2008 The history and evolution and the factors underlying the success of primary education in Kerala. [CDS WP 189].
by P R Gopinathan Nair | On 10 Dec 2008 What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
by Naila Kabeer | On 20 Nov 2008 The paper is a report of a survey done in Chitradurga District, Karnataka to know the functioning of NREGA and awarness of people about this Act.
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 19 Nov 2008 This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty...
by Li Shi | On 18 Nov 2008 The policy brief describes the life stories of five people, to show the face of human face of chronic poverty. It also suggests that such life history material can be an important source of data for p...
by Martin Prowse | On 11 Nov 2008 This paper primarily assesses the status of rural livelihoods in fragile environments with diverse resource endowments and policy interventions. Livelihood
assessment was carried out using the sustai...
by V Ratna Reddy | On 07 Nov 2008 This paper discusses the criticality of electricity the vital modern economic infrastucture concerning its role in and nexus with rural development. Introducing broad issues in rural infrastructure an...
by Keshab Das | On 06 Nov 2008 This paper aims at developing an explicit ‘vertical’ dimension to chronic poverty research that focuses on ‘adverse incorporation and social exclusion’ (AISE). an effort is made here to sensitise lite...
by Stefano Ponte | On 31 Oct 2008 This paper examines empirically within sustainable development
framework the dynamics of coverage in rural drinking water supply of
180 demand-driven schemes from Malappuram, predominantly a coastal...
by K Pushpangadan | On 27 Oct 2008 This study tries to understand the main causes of tank degradation and the complex interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performa...
by Balasubramanian R | On 17 Oct 2008 It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
by Sashi Sivramakrishna | On 16 Oct 2008 This paper is preliminary exploration of the trends and spatial variation in gender differentials in adult mortality in India, as also of the related rural-urban differentials.
by N. Krishnaji | On 08 Oct 2008 The system of justice in Bangladesh is derived from the common law system. The judiciary tends to be conservative in its application of international law. While in many cases the judiciary has cited i...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 07 Oct 2008 Recognising the dearth of detailed analyses of economic and environmental performance of traditional water harvesting systems (TWHS) meant exclusively for domestic use, this paper enquires into the re...
by Keshab Das | On 26 Sep 2008 This paper applies theoretical pluralism to studies of poverty. However in order to be more specific it takes as a case study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. In the paper, sp...
by Wendy Olsen | On 25 Sep 2008 This paper is an account of the main streams discussed in an international conference, held in New York in April 2008,
organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and
Global Policy Forum, which cons...
by James A. Paul | On 24 Sep 2008 because their traditional ‘slash and burn’ agriculture is
becoming increasingly unsustainable. Farmers in these
communities have to farm more intensively and this is causing a whole host of environm...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 19 Sep 2008 Given the vast geographical area, ecological-cultural diversity, and deep-rooted
social stratification, spatial inequality is one of the important features of poverty in
India. Besides inter-regiona...
by Amita Shah | On 17 Sep 2008 The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central
theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality...
by KK Subrahmanian | On 16 Sep 2008 This report is about people living in chronic poverty – people who remain
poor for much or all of their lives, many of whom will pass on their poverty to
their children, and all too often die easily...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC | On 15 Sep 2008 It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a thres...
by Rama Joglekar | On 15 Sep 2008 Research Studies on Rice/Paddy initiated by Hivos in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and The
Netherlands looked at several aspects related to ecological/environmental, economic, institutional, social/gen...
by G V Ramanjaneyulu | On 15 Sep 2008 Funds generated through community forestry offer crucial and significant resources for rural in Nepal. This study examines forestry funds in 100 communities in three districts to assess how large they...
by Ridish K. Pokharel | On 11 Sep 2008 The active participation of children in primary education hinges on a plethora of factors. Physical access is just one dimension. Children do not attend school regularly, and even if they do, they do...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 10 Sep 2008 It was left to human rights defenders to inform the UN Committees on the situation of human rights by submitting shadow reports, to investigate violations, and to campaign for an end to impunity for l...
by Hameeda Hossain | On 05 Sep 2008 Bangladesh is facing a major health crisis because arsenic is poisoning a large percentage of the country’s drinking water. Although the government has taken a number of positive steps to address this...
by Zakir Husain Khan | On 04 Sep 2008 Arsenic poisoning is a major public health concern in Bangladesh. This study uses primary data to examine health impacts and costs associated with arsenic contamination of groundwater. The study estim...
by M. Zakir Hossain Khan Khan | On 29 Aug 2008 Poverty is one of the factors which contribute for the child labour but it is not the only factor, there are other factors like environment influence, supply stream failure in delivering the services,...
by Sakuntala Kasargadda | On 25 Aug 2008 This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.
by Indrila Guha | On 18 Aug 2008 Volume III Eleventh Five year plan
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Aug 2008 The current paper is an attempt to capture the process of child development along the age continuum of 0 to 11, with special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations.
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 08 Aug 2008 Since 1978 Bangladesh government has been providing free food rations to plain settlers to sustain the conflict, make indigenous Jumma peoples a minority in the CHTs and eventually destroy their disti...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 07 Aug 2008 This study aimed to provide some insights into sanitation-related strategies taken
by the BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme from an
economic point of view. The aim of this report i...
by Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj | On 06 Aug 2008 The factors and process underlying agrarian distress in Kerala by undertaking the case studies of three villages situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. T...
by K.N. Nair | On 31 Jul 2008 Ratification imposes specific obligations on a state to incorporate human rights into
national laws, to amend legislation, to promote, protect and fulfill human rights and
prevent violations of huma...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 31 Jul 2008 This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and cor...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 29 Jul 2008 The Eleventh Plan addresses itself to the challenge of making growth both faster and more inclusive. The rapid growth achieved in the past several years demonstrates that we have learnt how to bring a...
by Planning Commission, India | On 29 Jul 2008 The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 26 Jul 2008 The aim of this paper is to examine the effects climate change will have on Bangladesh and also gives some possible solutions for tackling climate change.
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 24 Jul 2008 The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling to keep “the wolf from the door” must, in order to survive, send the children to w...
by M. Nagarjuna | On 23 Jul 2008 The presence of a large number of unqualified medical practitioners in the rural areas and urban slums indicate that they provide most of the outpatient services in the private sector. Given the huge...
by Naryana K V | On 08 Jul 2008 The ultra poor are caught in a below-subsistence trap from which it is difficult for them to break free using available resources and mechanisms. Time is not an ally for the ultra poor, as things gene...
by Imran Matin | On 01 Jul 2008 This paper examines the proposition that "poverty is a violation of human rights". The author disuses the possibility of this proposition to be implementable in real case senarios and in polcies,
by Arjun Sengupta | On 26 Jun 2008 A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a...
by Vinod Ahuja | On 19 Jun 2008 On 28th April 2008, hundreds of illegal plain settlers attacked the local Jumma people in Bangladesh. Hundreds of people were displaced and their houses burned. People suffered from such a level of sh...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 13 Jun 2008 Many popular social programmes have limited coverage among households at
the very bottom of the income and wealth distribution. If a programme reaches
the poor, but neglects the destitute, the (pre-...
by Isha Dewan | On 12 Jun 2008 Left coalition ruled West Bengal for uninterrupted three decades. The study reveals that despite ruling for such a long period the state still lags behind in eradication of problems like poverty, as c...
by Arup Maharatna | On 04 Jun 2008 The important elements of inclusive growth are: agricultural growth,
employment generation and poverty reduction, social sector (health and education) and
reduction in regional and other disparities...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 31 May 2008 This paper looks at the effects on livestock of silvi-pasture development on common lands in relation to (a) ruminant systems and (b) livestock numbers and ownership patterns in Rajasthan, India. [SDC...
by Czech Conroy | On 14 May 2008 The government of India has appointed many committees to look into the issue of agrarian distress in India. An Expert Panel was constituted by the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development...
by Satish Chander | On 12 May 2008 A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 03 Apr 2008 This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this contex...
by Mohanan Pillai P | On 25 Mar 2008 Speech describes India’s experiences on ‘Inclusive Growth’ - a topic which is both current and close to the hearts of public policymakers and central bankers of emerging economies. [Independence Comme...
by Usha Thorat | On 14 Mar 2008 This paper argues that at the present juncture in India’s development the window of poverty elimination provides the appropriate perspective to search for an alternative development paradigm. The alte...
by V.M. Rao | On 13 Mar 2008 Considering the reproductive health information and service needs of adolescents and youth, the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program, in collaboration with the Min...
by Laila Rahman | On 12 Mar 2008 This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.
by Akash Acharya | On 10 Mar 2008 Budget presented by Finance Minister
by P Chidambaram | On 29 Feb 2008 Quick findings for feedback as well as further analysis. [Contact Pravas Ranjan Mishra CYSD, E-1, Institutional Area, RRL PO., Bhubaneswar India - 751 013
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by Orissa Government | On 22 Feb 2008 People living in almost fifty percent of the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. The economic costs imposed by arsenic-related health problems are estimated. Data from...
by Joyashree Roy | On 08 Feb 2008 The first of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In India, thirty two and a half million people fall below the national poverty line by making out-of...
by Charu C. Garg | On 07 Feb 2008 This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social” (or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it....
by Michael Woolcock | On 25 Jan 2008 This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub-national levels in India and focuses on the rural-urban comparisons. The study explo...
by Meenakshi J V | On 17 Jan 2008 The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].
by Geeta Rao Gupta | On 19 Dec 2007 The promotion of ‘inclusive citizenship’, through which the disadvantaged engage in
collective struggles for justice and recognition, has been attracting growing attention as a
solution to chronic p...
by Katsuhiko Masaki | On 19 Dec 2007 An increase in HIV infection has contributed to the problem of RTIs/STIs in India. This paper finds a high prevalence of RTI/STI among the rural women in Haryana. Half of the rural women have no knowl...
by Sanjay Rode | On 18 Dec 2007 The United Nations Development Programme has just put out its latest Human Development Report, containing the human development index (HDI) for 177 countries, with the data being for 2005. India ranks...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Dec 2007 The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effe...
by Planning Commission, India | On 28 Nov 2007 Although PLoS Biology does not often publish articles that grapple with issues like poverty and human development, it was chosen to do so here because it is believed that the collective output of scie...
by Liza Gross | On 12 Nov 2007 A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-gener...
by Robert Miller | On 07 Nov 2007 The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with...
by Paul Matthews | On 26 Oct 2007 The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally r...
by Alessandro Cigno | On 16 Oct 2007 There are very large numbers of chronically and severely poor people who are not being reached by current development policies, and whose situation is often deteriorating in comparison even with other...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC | On 12 Oct 2007 To assess the effectiveness and draw lessons from the targeting strategy used in a new BRAC programme called Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction-Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) that aim...
by Imran Matin | On 09 Oct 2007 As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that...
by Shankar Acharya | On 08 Oct 2007 This paper is an attempt to measure the extent of peri-urbanisation that has taken place in TamilNadu. Geographical data is used based on the 1991 census for TamilNadu and Pondicherry. A systematic e...
by Sébastien Oliveau | On 04 Oct 2007 During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of fema...
by Sharad Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2007 The Eleventh Schedule added to the Constitution by the
Seventy-third Amendment lists twenty-nine functions devolvable by
States to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). States were free to set
the sp...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 28 Sep 2007 Government has done a lot for the development of textile industry. But India is not at all doing well in the international markets compared to countries like China and Bangladesh. Government has not d...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2007 Examples of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives within the context of children's issues in India, Nepal and Bangladesh are given. The mapping highlights that children's issues often do n...
by Girish Godbole | On 05 Sep 2007 NABARD is a key participant in the micro finance sector and has been closely associated with one of the two prevailing modes i.e. SHG-bank linkage mode of delivery of micro finance services. The devel...
by Mukul Asher | On 04 Sep 2007 This paper examines changes in living conditions in the six villages in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, initially surveyed during 1975-84. This study is linked to the original Village Level Survey (VL...
by Reena Badiani | On 30 Aug 2007 There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) serv...
by Rolf Adlung | On 27 Aug 2007 India's has been a unique path of economic development—internally decided in a
democratic framework, constantly debated between different ideologies and
interest groups, and increasingly engaging wi...
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 21 Aug 2007 This paper tries to advance the perspective that the poor and the marginalized in society lack a sense of “participatory equity,” by building a new model where a person’s community identity matters, e...
by Kaushik Basu | On 07 Aug 2007 There are three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge upgradation. It examines how the imp...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 02 Aug 2007 This paper is an attempt to bring out different needs of elders from different backgrounds and socio-economic groups. The main aim of the paper is to help policy makers in identifying these difference...
by Habibullah Ansari | On 02 Aug 2007 Findings from 116 focus group discussions are presented, which took place in eleven districts in Bangladesh in mid-2006. It forms the first part of three phases of research in an integrated qualitativ...
by Peter Davis | On 01 Aug 2007 This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st centur...
by K. Sundaram | On 30 Jul 2007 Some of the major problems in primary healthcare relate to training and
capacity building of health service providers in foreseeable future. It is in this
background that government set up a Task Fo...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet,...
by Tony Addison | On 20 Jul 2007 This paper follows the new economic geography approach to model the relationships
between trade policy and spatial agglomeration of production in the context of a small open
developing economy. It c...
by Ayele Gelan | On 13 Jul 2007 This study examines the consequences of a) a domestic carbon tax policy, and, b) participation in a global tradable emission permits regime on carbon emissions, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and pover...
by Vijay Prakash Ojha | On 07 Jul 2007 This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1988, 1996...
by Nicolas Gravel | On 06 Jul 2007 The development and application of the concept of resilience as a tool for examining the ways in which young humans are able to overcome the negative outcomes of poverty and prevent its transfer withi...
by Jo Boyden | On 06 Jul 2007 What exactly is 'economic marginalization'? How should one conceptualize it, and what are the implications of such conceptualization? Economic marginalization can be conceptualized as outcome or as p...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 05 Jul 2007 South Asia has the largest number of chronically poor people in the world –an estimated 135 to 190 million people. Chronic poverty in the region is most renounced in areas that have significant minori...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC | On 02 Jul 2007 Most studies on poverty alleviation and reduction programmes emphasize structural bottlenecks, asymmetric information, and rent seeking behaviour. This paper provides an analytical characterization of...
by Arindam Banik | On 19 Jun 2007 Relatively small proportion of literature has focused upon health behaviours and types of health services used by the poor in rural Bangladesh, particularly ultra poor households.This study aimed to e...
by Shahaduz Zaman | On 14 Jun 2007 It is argued that Indian agriculture is undergoing fundamental change wherein the technology and inputs are moving out of the hands of the farmers to external suppliers. This, over a period of time ma...
by M S Sriram | On 13 Jun 2007 Review of:
Globalizing Rural Development: Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities
by M. C. Behera; Sage Publications, 2006.
by Mohan Kanda | On 12 Jun 2007 Review of : India’s Long-Term Growth Experience: Lessons and Prospects by
Sadiq Ahmed. Sage India, New Delhi, February 2007.
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 31 May 2007 The proposition that social capital expands household welfare is tested by estimating the effects of social interactions on per capita expenditure among a sample of 810 households in northern Banglade...
by Farhad Ameen | On 30 May 2007 This paper focuses on government investment and expenditure policies.
Going beyond the growth experience, the author also tries to relate the
policy experience to the issues of aggregate poverty, in...
by Arvind Virmani | On 25 Apr 2007 Policy initiatives for reproductive health are often based on judgments made on the basis of a small, selective cross-section of the population. The Human Development Profile Survey (HDPS) conducted b...
by P. N. Mari Bhat | On 13 Apr 2007 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage.
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 First, on the basis of primary data collected in a rural setting in the
State of Orissa, an attempt has been made in this paper to compare the
socioeconomic status of male- and female- headed househ...
by Pradeep Kumar Panda | On 12 Feb 2007 Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care
throughout much of Asia. The paper describe the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in 14 countrie...
by Eddy van Doorslaer | On 06 Feb 2007 Grounded in a popular stereotype that female-headed households are the ‘poorest of the poor’, it is often assumed that women and children suffer greater poverty than in households which conform with a...
by Sylvia Chant | On 30 Jan 2007 The changed survey methodology of the 55th round (and the consequent furore that has ensued) has demonstrated that there is indeed uncertainty surrounding estimates of poverty. The uncertainties conce...
by David Williams | On 30 Jan 2007 People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. S...
by Angus S. Deaton | On 28 Dec 2006 The effect of randomized reservations of Pradhan (chief executive) positions in West Bengal local governments (panchayats) for women and members of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) following t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 27 Dec 2006 It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefor...
by Nitya Rao | On 26 Dec 2006 This paper examines core features of poor rural areas, the nature of coordination problems faced by different potential economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic developme...
by Jonathan Kydd | On 22 Dec 2006 The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective huma...
by Karuna Gomanee | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper attempts to analyse the various aspects of informal rural credit
market of which interlinked contracts occupy the central place. In particular, the nature and extent of interlinked credit...
by Anita Gill | On 22 Dec 2006 Good empirical analysis of the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty is challenging.
This note clarifies this challenge and possible contributions by considering: (1) what
estimated relati...
by Jere R. Behrman | On 20 Dec 2006 This study aims to investigate the impact of CFPR/TUP programme on the food and nutrient consumption. The report is presented in two parts- the first part is based on the comparison of food and energy...
by Farhana Haseen | On 19 Dec 2006 Recent interest on rural industries derives from recognition of the
limits of agriculture and organised manufacturing sector in employment
generation especially during the post-liberalisation period...
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 19 Dec 2006 A price rise signifies a fall in purchasing power, if there is no
commensurate increase in income. Thus the pertinent question in the
face of the phenomenal rise during the 1990s in the prices of th...
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 19 Dec 2006 How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What other avenues did the benefits of growth travel through before reaching and helpi...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 05 Dec 2006 This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way, constructing three scenarios—population growth, population decline, and a constant popu...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 04 Dec 2006 In this note we approach the question of relative poverty from a different angle. Fixing the poverty line, we ask: What is the extent of poverty relative to the resources available in the society to e...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 01 Dec 2006 Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a
rather contrary scenario with dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty
despite their adverse agro-climat...
by Amita Shah | On 29 Nov 2006 There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty.
The death of a poor person, because of poverty, reduces poverty according
to these measures. This surely violates our basic intui...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Nov 2006 Despite the general consensus that microfinance does not reach the poorest; recent evidence suggests that nearly 15% of microfinance clients in Bangladesh are among the poorest. It is from the realiza...
by Proloy Barua | On 25 Oct 2006 In pursuance of a recommendation made by the Asian and Pacific Regional
Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA), the National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development, in collaboration with some...
by | On 23 Oct 2006 A review of the progress and impact of the overall strategy for scaling up the SHG Bank Linkage Programme over the last decade. [Paper presented at the Seminar on SHG-bank Linkage Programme at New Del...
by Erhard. W. Kropp | On 23 Oct 2006 Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income-expenditure surveys can yield noisy results, overestimating transient poverty and underestimating persistence of poverty, especially for...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 23 Oct 2006 This paper synthesises the different explanations and presents an overview of the development and characteristics of the Chinese rural enterprises (REs). The rural industrialization history of the Chi...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 18 Oct 2006 The purpose of the paper is to ask how family law texts, as regards rural divorce, have obtained there own particular structure and form. The author concentrates on the rural divorce cases.The purpose...
by Malcolm Voyce | On 29 Aug 2006 The 11th Plan provides an opportunity to restructure policies to achieve a new
vision of growth that will be much more broad based and inclusive, bringing about a
faster reduction in poverty and hel...
by Planning Commission | On 19 Jul 2006 If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring...
by Padmini Swaminathan | On 19 Jul 2006 A central challenge facing us here – how do we ensure that the issue of the urban poor, in particular, is given as much attention by the international
community, beyond speaking about it?
by L.N. Sisulu | On 13 Jul 2006 The cities of tomorrow are in poor countries, where the largest proportion of the population is below 25 years old and where young women are becoming particularly vulnerable. It is youth who will inhe...
by Kaveri Prakash | On 09 Jul 2006 This paper addresses the following question: why are we still arguing about
globalisation? It analyses the recent evolution of debates relating to the impact of
globalisation on poverty and economic...
by Andrew Sumner | On 02 Jun 2006 Women's Equality in Transition: Intersectionality in Northern Ireland's/ North of Ireland's Equality Legislation
Women have been invisible in mainstream analyses of the Northern
Irish conflict. The...
by | On 23 May 2006 The budget 2006-07 proposals in health care fell well short of India’s march towards achieving Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the National Health Policy (NHP) goals and fully operationalising the...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 09 May 2006 This paper outlines the Fund-Bank analytical frameworks and presents a critical appraisal indicating the importance of both demand and supply constraints in the countries undertaking Fund adjustment p...
by Brigitte Granville | On 27 Apr 2006 The argument of the White Paper are
Basically robust, but could be improved
Long-term determinants of prosperity
•Relatively less emphasis on openness
•More emphasis on incentives to invest
Short...
by Adrian Wood | On 27 Apr 2006 While Asia’s success in growth and poverty reduction is to be greatly welcomed, and should be analysed for the lessons it has for other countries, the policy discourse should take on board three key p...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 21 Apr 2006 The paper addresses three main issues: The nature of economic reforms and how growth is segregated within the sectors; secondly, limitations of the poverty line approach to estimate the development of...
by Saji M. | On 31 Mar 2006 1. The development budget has been increased by 34.7%, which is the highest
increase to date.
2. Current expenditures will increase by 18%. The main reasons for the increase are
the relief that gov...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 14 Mar 2006 The present paper argues that a comprehensive rural industrialisation/cluster
development strategy has to be designed within a broader regional development
perspective that does not fail to include...
by Keshab Das | On 20 Feb 2006 This is a case study of the Yeshasvini Health Insurance Scheme for rural
farmers and peasants in Karnataka. The scheme, now in its second year of
operation, covers 2.2 million farmers and peasants w...
by Sarosh Kuruvilla | On 13 Jan 2006 It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed
away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land.
Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, prot...
by Ronald Herring | On 12 Jan 2006 Until banking sector reforms were introduced in India in 1991, the emphasis in the credit provision through formal banking system was to meet the targets at the expense of the quality of credit and vi...
by Gagan Bihari Sahu | On 08 Dec 2005 Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 08 Dec 2005 The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies...
by Esther Duflo | On 21 Nov 2005 India is making sound progress on poverty elimination for those who can
work. Poverty amongst the elderly will then become the dominant form of poverty in India, since the elderly do not work and thu...
by Ajay Shah | On 08 Nov 2005 Although it is commonly believed that trade liberalization results in higher GDP, little is known about its effects on poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India i...
by Petia Topalova | On 29 Sep 2005 This is a qualitative study conducted by Sama in collaboration with Mahila Jagriti Sanstha,a community-based organisation in Gomia, Jharkhand to understand the interrelationship between gender and mal...
by SAMA .. | On 17 Sep 2005 The Indian Constitution assigns specific tax and expenditure responsibilities to the
Centre and States. In practice, however, the Centre often operates in the sphere of
the States. For instance, it...
by Naresh C. Saxena | On 09 Sep 2005
by KETAN MUKHIJA | On 08 Sep 2005 Textbook analysis tells us that in a competitive labor market, the introduction of a minimum wage above the competitive equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to...
by Gary Fields | On 30 Aug 2005 This paper develops a framework for thinking about the policy challenge of scaling up small scale interventions, governmental and non-governmental, that address poverty reduction successfully. The fra...
by S. Devarajan | On 30 Aug 2005 Medico Friend Circle, April-May 2005, featuring Background papers for annual Theme Meet on Quality and Cost of Health Care
by Anonymous | On 24 Aug 2005 A Bill to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the poor households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financia...
by Anonymous | On 19 Aug 2005 The paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the human development scenario in Maharashtra. Its starting point is the Human Development Index, which indicates average levels of attainment in three di...
by Sangita Kamdar | On 05 Aug 2005 MBOPs and the case of Northeast Brazil The Rural Poverty Reduction Program
by Edward Bresnyan, Jr | On 30 Mar 2005 |