Working paper
The Mekong plays an important role in ensuring the well-being of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, as the major river supporting agriculture and many other economic activities in the region. It also brings regular floods to the region which, although sometimes damaging, are an integral part of the lives of many communities in the Mekong River basin. However, in recent...
Il cambiamento climatico provocato dall'uomo è già una realtà, e i poveri ne sono i più colpiti. È urgente giungere a un accordo sul livello di cambiamento che dobbiamo evitare, in modo da prevenire le conseguenze peggiori di questo fenomeno. Questo documento spiega perché l'incremento medio della temperatura globale deve mantenersi il più...
As the 2007 German G8 summit approaches, the demands of the millions of anti-poverty campaigners worldwide are clear. G8 leaders must increase and improve aid to provide health, education, water and sanitation for all. They must cancel more debt and deliver trade justice. They must take urgent action to bring peace to the world's most troubled countries and to halt the devastating impact of...
There has been a growing awareness during recent years that projects and policy interventions that are designed without an appreciation of gender-specific constraints and potentials among intended beneficiaries can yield outcomes that run counter to original goals. Contrary to the assumption that project benefits are evenly shared within beneficiary households, women do not automatically gain...
Relative poverty assessment of Nirdhan Utthan Bank Ltd. (NUBL) of Nepal was conducted to examine whether NUBL has reached to the poorest as envisioned in their mission statement. NUBL is the first non-government development bank licensed to provide micro financial services. During its initiation as an NGO in 1993, NUBL extended its first financial services to 521 clients from a single branch...
Despite the growing popularity of community-based approaches to forest management, there are limited cases in which benefits and costs are shared equitably. One of the reasons for this situation is that decisions within community-based forest management (CBFM) regimes are dominated by local elites. This is especially true in the context of Nepal where society is stratified into different...
The link between economic growth and human development has been a subject of rigorous empirical econometric work since the 1970s. Education, which is an important component of human development, has been found to explain varying levels of return and economic growth. Further, it has been found that countries that have equalised their educational achievements for men and women have, on average,...
Policies of devolving management of resources from the state to user groups are premised upon the assumption that users will organise and take on the necessary management tasks. While experience has shown that in many places users do so and are very capable, expansion of co-management programmes beyond initial pilot sites often shows that this does not happen everywhere. Yet, much is at stake...
Poverty is about politics. Access to governance structures and participation in policy processes has both an instrumental and intrinsic value to the rural poor and rural poor organisations (here after referred to as RP). The desired outcome, it is argued, is pro-poor governance, by which is meant policy processes within which the RP participate and influence and achieve change through policy...
Climate change is now very much with us, and for the poorest of the poor the implications are particularly daunting. These often remote or marginalised communities are so burdened they will struggle to meet the coming challenges. Adaptation - learning to cope with rising temperature and other effects of climate change - is a difficult but essential task for these vulnerable millions. This...
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