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| Dolberg, Frands. |
| This Working Paper for the South Asia regional hub of the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative presents the case for using poultry, in very small units of 5-10 adult birds, as a means of alleviating the poverty of rural women in the region. Policies and procedures that affect the success of such initiatives are examined. The author draws on personal experience and an extensive literature review. The main focus of the paper is a review of what is known as the Bangladesh Model. Emphasising that this is not a static model, the author explains its evolution by Bangladesh's largest NGO, BRAC, working with the government department responsible for livestock services. The main feature of the model is that the supply of inputs and services are turned into income... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Pro-poor livestock policy; Livelihoods; Poultry; Poverty alleviation; Food Security and Poverty; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23762 |
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| Brooks, Emma G. E.; University of Southampton; Global Species Programme, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature); emma.brooks@soton.ac.uk; Smith, Kevin G.; Global Species Programme, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature); kevin.smith@iucn.org; Holland, Robert A.; University of Southampton; R.A.Holland@soton.ac.uk; Poppy, Guy M.; University of Southampton; G.M.Poppy@soton.ac.uk; Eigenbrod, Felix; University of Southampton; F.Eigenbrod@soton.ac.uk. |
| Contingent valuation is one of the most commonly used methodologies utilized in ecosystem service valuation, thereby including a participatory approach to many such assessments. However, inclusion of nonmonetary stakeholder priorities is still uncommon in ecosystem service valuations and disaggregation of stakeholders is all but absent from practice. We look at four site-scale wetland ecosystem service valuations from Asia that used nonmonetary participatory stated preference techniques from a range of stakeholders, and compare these prioritizations to those obtained from the largest monetary assessments available globally, the Ecosystem Service Value Database (ESVD). Stakeholder assessment suggests very different priorities to those from monetary... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Participatory approach; Poverty alleviation; Stakeholders; Valuation; Wetlands. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Toman, Michael; Jemelkova, Barbora. |
| Energy development is an integral part of enhanced economic development. The fact that expanded provision and use of energy services is strongly associated with economic development leaves open how important energy is as a causal factor in economic development, however; and energy development competes with other opportunities for scarce capital and opportunities for policy and institutional reform. In this paper we first give a brief conceptual discussion that seeks to identify the channels through which increased availability of energy services might be a key to stimulating economic development along different stages of the development process. We then examine some empirical work to see what evidence it might provide regarding possible channels of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Energy; Economic development; Productivity; Poverty alleviation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q41; Q43. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10685 |
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| Coady, David P.; Perez, Raul; Vera-Illamas, Hadid. |
| One of the common criticisms of poverty alleviation programs is that the high share of administrative (nontransfer) costs substantially reduces the programs’ impact on poverty. But very little empirical evidence exists on program costs. For example, a recent extensive international review of targeted poverty alleviation programs in developing countries could find data on costs for only 32 out of the 111 program reviewed. Even then, the numbers available were not always comparable. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the cost structure of a program recently introduced in Mexico, called PROGRESA. Our analysis shows how cost data can be used as the basis for an evaluation of the cost efficiency of anti-poverty programs. It cautions, however, that... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Cost efficiency; Poverty alleviation; Human capital; Mexico; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59284 |
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| Diao, Xinshen; Nin Pratt, Alejandro; Ghautam, Madhur; Keough, James; Chamberlin, Jordan; You, Liangzhi; Puetz, Detlev; Resnick, Danielle; Yu, Bingxin. |
| Also published as EDRI-ESSP Policy Working Paper No. 2: Xinshen Diao; Alejandro Nin Pratt; Madhur Ghautam; James Keough; Jordan Chamberlin; Liangszi You; Detlev Puetz; Danielle Resnick; Bingxin Yu. 2005. Growth options and poverty reduction in Ethiopia: a spatial, economywide model analysis for 2004-15. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Poverty alleviation; Agricultural growth; Agricultural sector; Millennium Development Goals; Spatial analysis (Statistics); Disaggregation; Household surveys; Ethiopia; Africa; Food Security and Poverty; International Development. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58383 |
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| Yang,Fan; Jiang,Yao; Zeng,Weizhong. |
| ABSTRACT: We used the data of the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey 2014 to examine the effects of livelihood capitals which include natural, material, human, financial, and social capitals on total household income, per capita income, agricultural income, wage income, operational income, and property income inequality among rural households in China. Results showed that different kinds of livelihood capitals have different effects on different types of rural households’ income. Specifically; (1) although, the area of cultivated land reduces agricultural income inequality, it increases per capita income inequality. (2) Forest land area enlarges per capita income inequality and total household income inequality. (3) Tractor variable reduces inequality in... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Human capital; Social capital; Gini coefficient; Poverty alleviation; China.. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782020000200932 |
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| Gillespie, Stuart. |
| While many community-driven development (CDD) initiatives may be successful, their impact is often limited by their small scale. Building on past and ongoing work on CDD, this study addresses the fundamental question: how can CDD initiatives motivate and empower the greatest number of communities to take control of their own development? What are the key contextual factors, institutional arrangements, capacity elements, and processes related to successful scaling-up of CDD, and, conversely, what are the main constraints or limiting factors, in different contexts? Drawing upon recent literature and the findings from five case studies, key lessons on how best to stimulate, facilitate, and support the scaling-up of CDD in different situations, along with some... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Community-driven development (CDD); Capacity strengthening; Case studies; Scaling up; Access to information; Poverty alleviation; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60312 |
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| Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen; Dalafi, Sara. |
| China's and India's rapid rise in the global arena has not only captured the attention of the world but has also set into motion a rethinking of the very paradigm of economic development. Today, China and India together account for 40 percent of the world's population. Both have implemented a series of economic reforms in the past two and half decades: China initiated this process at the end of the 1970s, while India began in the early 1990s. These reforms have led to rapid economic growth, with a growth rate of 8-9 percent per annum in China and 6-7 percent per annum in India. Despite similar trends in the reforms, the two countries have taken different reform paths; China started off with reforms in agriculture sector and in rural areas, while India... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Poverty alleviation; Egypt; Economic reform; China; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Development. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59826 |
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| Diao, Xinshen; Hazell, Peter B.R.; Resnick, Danielle; Thurlow, James. |
| This paper provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa’s smallholder agriculture to stimulate growth and alleviate poverty in an increasingly integrated world. In particular, the paper synthesizes both the traditional theoretical literature on agriculture’s role in the development process and discusses more recent literature that remains skeptical about agriculture’s development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries based on their stage of development, agricultural conditions, natural resources, and geographic location… More broadly, the paper demonstrates that conventional... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Growth-poverty linkages; Smallholders; Poverty alleviation; Agricultural development; Africa; Economic aspects; Agricultural sector; Ethiopia; Ghana; Rwanda; Uganda; Zambia; International Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55405 |
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| Upton, Martin. |
| This paper reviews the diverse and changing roles of livestock as they relate to the process of economic development and poverty reduction, departing from the premise that livestock production plays an important role in contributing to the livelihoods of most of the world's poor and in meeting the fast growing demand for livestock products in the developing countries. It is argued that investment in livestock raises farm production by extending the area of land utilised, diversifying productive activity for crop cultivators or intensifying production, and that changes from grassland-based systems to mixed farming systems and thence to landless production systems represent stages of increasing intensity. The author draws on New Institutional Economics... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Pro-poor livestock policy; Livelihoods; Economic development; Poverty alleviation; Food Security and Poverty; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23783 |
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| Milder, Jeffrey C; Cornell University; Ecoagriculture Partners; jcm85@cornell.edu; Scherr, Sara J; Ecoagriculture Partners; sscherr@ecoagriculture.org; Bracer, Carina; Climate Focus; C.Bracer@climatefocus.com. |
| Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is a market-based approach to environmental management that compensates land stewards for ecosystem conservation and restoration. Because low-income households and communities control much of the ecologically sensitive land in developing countries, they potentially stand to gain from PES, as environmentally responsible stewardship is assigned a value by various actors in society. To date, however, instances of PES benefiting the poor have been limited mainly to specific localities, small-scale projects, and a handful of broader government programs. We analyze the size, characteristics, and trends of PES to evaluate its future potential to benefit low-income land stewards in developing countries. We estimate that by the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity conservation; Carbon sequestration; Eco-certification; Market development; Market policy; Payment for ecosystem services; Payment for environmental services; Poverty alleviation; Rural development; Watershed protection. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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