Accounts of Crisis: Poor People’s Experiences of the Food, Fuel and Financial Crises in Five Countries
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Report on a pilot study in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya and Zambia, January-March 2009
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Report on a pilot study in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya and Zambia, January-March 2009
How have people and communities experienced recent global economic shocks? In early 2009, the Social Impacts of Crisis project started work in 12 community 'listening posts' in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Yemen and Zambia to answer this question.
Research from the Centre for Social Protection and UNICEF shows how successful social protection programmes are built
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Across the hardest-hit countries of sub-Saharan Africa the HIV/AIDS epidemic is causing immense distress and impoverishment to children. In this region alone, some 12 million are estimated to have lost one or both parents to the disease, but this headline figure misrepresents and understates the magnitude of the problem.
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Aid effectiveness has long been disputed, after decades of inconclusive macroeconomic analysis. Now there is a growing body of evidence from detailed, field level, microeconomic impact evaluations. The articles in this IDS Bulletin show how the design of these studies increasingly address the various sources of bias for which previous projects were criticised.
Paper prepared for the United Nations System in the Republic of Zambia
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A major increase in the amount of aid to less developed countries is widely anticipated, by or soon after late 2005, to bolster efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The sums involved may not be as substantial as expected, and they come mainly from Europe, but we are still likely to see a significant enhancement of funds for development.
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This IDS Bulletin draws together contributions from a diverse range of researchers and development practitioners working in Africa, with the common goal of exploring why agriculture is contributing to poverty reduction and livelihood improvement in some places
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Along with the rest of the economy, per capita output in Zambia’s agricultural sector has been in long-run decline. On a crop-by-crop...