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1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
Resumen Con el aumento en las oportunidades para promover una mayor participación en el desarrollo, crece también el reconocimiento de que el monitoreo y la evaluación deben ser participativos.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
Las organizaciones promotoras del desarrollo necesitan saber qué tan efectivos han sido sus esfuerzos. ¿Pero quién debe hacer estos juicios, y con qué fundamentos? Normalmente son los expertos externos los que se encargan de esta misión.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
En un nuevo enfoque anunciado por el Banco Mundial y el FMI, se ofrece a la sociedad civil un papel en la definición y puesta en práctica de las estrategias nacionales en contra de la pobreza. Con el fin de tener acceso a reducciones en sus deudas, se pide a los países que prepaen un documento de Estrategia de Reducción de la Pobreza, fundamentado en contribuciones de todos los sectores de la sociedad.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
From tentative beginnings in the late 1980s, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) has spread through Kenya 'like a bushfire'. In response to growing demand for 'doing participation', PRA has been popularised and marketised to such an extent that, as one Kenyan practitioner put it, 'everyone is doing something and calling it PRA'.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
The paper is a case study of the way that World Neighbors used PRA in a process of community development in one sublocation in Kenya.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper builds on previous work on Bangladesh that set out the principles of a gendered computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach by accounting for household work and leisure in addition to standard market sectors.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper aims to develop a methodology for identifying poor winners and losers from trade policy changes. Two methodologies are frequently employed to assess the linkages between trade and poverty, case studies and general equilibrium trade models. It is argued that insights from both can be mutually reinforcing.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper explores the dynamics of the making and shaping of poverty policy. It takes as its starting point a critique of linear versions of policy-making, highlighting the complex interplay of power, knowledge and agency in poverty policy processes.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper provides a gender perspective on recent arguments about the link between economic growth and poverty reduction in rural sub-Saharan Africa.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
This paper is concerned with the impact of globalisation on local competitiveness in Brenta, one of the most important Italian footwear districts. The aim is to integrate the typical industrial district approach with the global value chain approach.