Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme of Local Governance
Recent, “rights-based approaches” offer a promising route for bringing about social change. However, we have little experience with...
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Recent, “rights-based approaches” offer a promising route for bringing about social change. However, we have little experience with...
Science and Innovation for Development is a landmark in development thinking and practice. The book by Professor Gordon Conway, of Imperial College London, and Professor Jeff Waage, of the London International Development Centre, emphasises the potential of new technologies - Information and Communication Technology (ICT), nanotechnology and biotechnology - to reduce poverty.
Published by: IDS
Is it possible to secure the desired policy action ‘infusing’ gender into existing ways of doing and organising things – and by so...
Published by: Freedom House
This chapter in the 2010 Freedom House Report on Women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa details the situation of women in Egypt.
Published by: IDS
‘Because of our poverty we are not able to speak. If you have property you have power. If you have power you can talk or voice for yourself. The ones with power talk to each other.’ (elderly Ethiopian pastoralist woman). What are the implications for development practice?
Published by: Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme
This briefing paper critically examines two concepts that permeate contemporary policy debates about social protection –...
Published by: IDS
The pattern of global poverty has changed over the past two decades. Most of the world’s poorest people – or a ‘new bottom billion’ – are now found not in the poorest countries, but in middle-income countries.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Features cutting-edge research on women's empowerment from a highly critical angle as a key entry point in the process of rethinking of human development.
Published by: Publicaciones de la Fundacion Chile 21
Published by: Freedom House
This study, conducted by Freedom House provides a detailed look at the conditions faced by women in the Middle East and an understanding of the complex environment surrounding efforts to improve their status.