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Snakes, Ladders and Traps: Changing Lives and Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)

Published by: CPRC

Child Labour and the Right to Education in South Asia: Needs Versus Rights

Published by: Sage Publications

Citizenship, affiliation and exclusion: perspectives from the South

Citizenship is a way of defining personhood, which links rights and agency: ‘citizenship as rights enables people to act as agents’...

Part III: Wider Social Impacts: 10. Assessing the “Wider” Social Impacts of Microfinance Services:

Published by: IDS

The “wider impacts” of microfinance interventions were identified from the outset of the Imp-Act programme as an explicit concern...

Poverty, Social Exclusion and the MDGs: The Challenge of ‘Durable Inequalities’ in the Asian Context

‘It had been thought for a fairly long time that an increase in the national product corresponded to a general rise in income. But it...

A ‘Vision’ Thing? Debate and Difference within the OECD-DAC Poverty Network Approaches to Social Protection

Timo Voipio’s contribution to this IDS Bulletin is useful on two different levels. First, it sketches out some of the main elements of...

Economic Growth, Social Protection and ‘Real’ Labour Markets: Linking Theory and Policy

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Labour markets and paid work are widely recognised as central transmission mechanisms through which the working poor contribute to, and...

Imagining the Future: Children, Education and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Urban Bangladesh

Failure to invest in children's education is widely recognised as a key mechanism for the intergenerational transmission of poverty. At...

Women’s Empowerment, Development Interventions and the Management of Information Flows

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article takes gender inequalities in the distribution of power as its point of departure. Given the widespread evidence of the...

Introduction: Overcoming Barriers to the Extension of Social Protection: Lessons from the Asia Region

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The contributions to this IDS Bulletin report on some of the findings from research undertaken under the Social Protection in Asia...