This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household incom…
En la cub.: "Le monde actuel vit un paradoxe inouï. D'un côté, la cause semble entendue : il est plongé dans la crise par les comportements erratiques des marchés financiers. De l'autre, des millions d'êtres miséreux rêvent d'avoir accès au marché, au lieu où, à la ville, ils po…
"Le monde actuel vit un paradoxe inouï. D'un côté, la cause semble entendue : il est plongé dans la crise par les comportements erratiques des marchés financiers. De l'autre, des millions d'êtres miséreux rêvent d'avoir accès au marché, au lieu où, à la ville, ils pourraient tro…
Microfinance has been a long-lived development fashion and in 2005 it enjoyed the accolade of a UN International Year. Many of the world's biggest multinational banks are now eagerly committing quite substantial sums to it, for business as well as public relations purposes. Howe…
The authors report on the yearlong "financial diaries" of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. --from publisher description.
"China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens. The authors explore a range of reasons for the disparity and base their conclusions on strong empirical evidence--especially the 1996 survey conducted by the…
World Development Indicators pp. 169-260.
"In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and…
According to traditional models of human rights, states are responsible for securing the rights of their citizens. But these models do not fit reality: States are often unwilling or unable to live up to their obligations, but if human rights are to be more than empty words, then…
Climate change will inflict damage on every continent, but it will hit the world's poor disproportionately hard. This book draws on expertise from the climate change and development communities to ask how the public and private sectors can help the world's poor manage the global…
Evalue les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté axés sur l'accès à l'éducation et à la santé à partir d'une méthode dite d'expérimentation aléatoire inspirée des essais cliniques pratiqués en médecine.
Tourism and Poverty addresses a critical question facing many academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies around the world: can tourism work as a tool to overcome poverty? This book is the first to present a focused description and critiq…
