Provision Responses to Devolved Service Delivery – Case Evidence from Jaranwala Tehsil
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Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has been heralded as a radical change in the way that firms trade with one another. In the late...
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Rural people have always faced uncertainty, but on a global and local scale communities increasingly face unknowns due to rapidly changing financial, technological and political processes.
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International development agencies are increasingly using rights-based language. But how can their policy and practice support people's own efforts to turn their rights into reality?
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Meeting global standards can be critical for firms in developing countries, changing the ways in which they link to global buyers.
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By developing collaborative and participatory learning approaches, Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) can help build the capacity of individuals to undertake key development roles.
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Clustering together can help small firms compete in local and global markets. Cluster development also helps to reduce poverty. It can create employment, generate incomes and reduce vulnerability for small producers and poor workers. The critical policy challenge is how to make clusters development strategies more effective for the poor.
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The concept of 'destitution' presents challenges to several preoccupations of contemporary poverty discourse: the definition of poverty (narrowly income-based versus broader multi-dimensional approaches); the measurement of poverty (quantitative versus participatory methods); and the temporal dimension (chronic versus transitory poverty).
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The problem of the proliferation of aid donors and channels continues to worsen. It undermines the value of aid. We contribute to the...
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The people of Wollo in northern Ethiopia are not only famine-prone and chronically food insecure, they are also desperately poor. These factors are interrelated, but national policy-makers and the international community have adopted a 'crisis management' strategy that has resulted in dependence on food aid, rather than addressing the underlying problems of poverty and livelihood insecurity.