Download or read book The Social Dimensions of Adjustment Priority Survey written by Christiaan Grootaert and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Dimensions of Adjustment written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Combining the Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Poverty Measurement and Analysis written by Soniya Carvalho and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the impact of paddy irrigation investments, operations, and maintenance in Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the conclusions of a performance audit of flood control schemes at three sites in Bangladesh. Findings from the review contradict the dominant model for government-operated, gravity-fed irrigation schemes in the humid tropics. The irrigation schemes are performing less well than expected at appraisal, mainly because of falling paddy prices, overoptimism about the crop area served, and project design faults. Results emphasize the value of co-production, involving pragmatic approaches to operation and maintenance under which public irrigation agencies, local authorities, and farmers work together to address specific problems and strengthen appropriate incentives.

Download or read book The Social Dimensions of Adjustment Integrated Survey written by Ghislaine Delaine and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of a series of technical documents providing guidelines on the measurement and analysis of the socio-economic effects of structural adjustment policies, and in particular how such policies affect living standards at the household level. This document describes the main elements of the national information system needed to effectively provide the information used to undertake the full range of analysis proposed in the Analysis Plan. It reviews the objectives of the Integrated Survey (IS) and includes a brief description of the analysis plans as well as a review of the other uses to which the IS data can be applied, such as the computation of weights for consumer price indices. A presentation of the prototype questionnaire and the rationale for the structure of the questionnaire and the reasons for including the various sections and questions is provided. It reviews issues related to survey organization and field logistics, with special emphasis on organizing survey operations in such a way that delays in survey implementation are reduced and that adequate checks are built in to control the levels of non-sampling error that can so easily threaten the success of such a survey. The document describes the steps of computing the essential household income and expenditure aggregates and subaggregates needed to develop household accounts. Finally, issues related to the presentation of the initial survey results are discussed.

Download or read book Human Rights in Developing Countries Yearbook 1994 written by Peter R. Baehr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1985 seven Yearbooks have appeared containing articles on recent developments with regard to human rights in developing countries. Besides topical information on current issues and trends that pertain to these countries in general, the Yearbook describes the current situation in a selected group of developing countries. The Yearbook 1994 contains national reports on Angola, China, Ghana, Honduras, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. The authors and editors of the Yearbook use a broad definition of human rights meaning not merely civil and political rights but economic, social and cultural rights as well. This broad and modern perspective on the issue is reflected in the contents of the national reports and in the thematic studies in the first part of the book, covering a wide range of issues relevant to human rights in the developing world. Among the topics covered by the thematic studies this year are the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the influence of recognized human rights standards in the national politics of Eastern Europe, the social cost of adjustment and human rights protection and an evaluation of recent positive measures taken in the sphere of North-South cooperation. The Yearbook is an initiative of human rights institutes in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands with the purpose of reaching a wide audience interested in both human rights and development aid issues.

Download or read book Sociology Anthropology and Development written by Michael M. Cernea and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentally Sustainable Development Studies and Monograph Series No. 3. A listing of works published by World Bank sociologists and anthropologists, this bibliography serves as a vehicle for exchanging experiences and promoting interdisciplinar

Download or read book Report on the 1992 Priority Survey written by Rohey Wadda and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Useful are Integrated Household Survey Data for Policy oriented Analyses of Poverty written by Christiaan Grootaert and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simpler and bigger are better, for household living standards surveys. And better collection of price data, in an independent survey, should be a priority.

Download or read book Out of Poverty Comparative Poverty Reduction Strategies in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Flora Lucas Kessy and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the poverty strategies of three Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, and three non-HIPCs, Botswana, Kenya and Namibia. Considers the main economic, social and political factors influencing poverty generation and/or reduction during the period 1990-2006.

Download or read book Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation written by David Bigman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .."in many developing countries, there are large differences in economic conditions and the standard of living between regions, and even between communities within the same region. In many countries, poverty has a clear geographic dimension, since the poor are often concentrated in pockets of poverty. Therefore, the design of poverty alleviation policies must also have a signficant spatial component." Although development projects are carefully designed and meticulously evaluated for cost effectiveness and benefits, too many of them are not sufficiently targeted geographically. The growing availability and use of spatial data, organized in a computer system such as a geographical information system (GIS), makes it more feasible to analyze the impact of projects in specific locales and to achieve more effective targeting. 'Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation' introduces the basic concepts of a GIS. It also demonstrates how to organize geographic and nongeographic data. In addition, it presents different methods for using the data of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey, together with other surveys and the population census, to provide estimates for the standard of living and the incidence of poverty incidence in different geographical areas of a country. Ultimately, these estimates should be used to establish guidelines for targeting poverty alleviation projects. This publication illustrates different GIS applications for identifying the project's target population, determining the project's spatial 'sphere of influence' or deciding where to locate public facilities. This publication is of interest to task managers, economists, development researchers, and geographers.

Download or read book The Social Impact of Adjustment Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book True World Income Distribution 1988 and 1993 written by Branko Milanovi? and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inequality in world income is very high, according to household surveys, more because of differences between mean country incomes than because of inequality within countries. World inequality increased between 1988 and 1993, driven by slower growth in rural per capita incomes in populous Asian countries (Bangladesh, China, and India) than in large, rich OECD countries, and by increasing income differences between urban China on the one hand and rural China and rural India on the other"--Cover.

Download or read book Good Enough Mothering written by Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lone mothers and their children currently comprise almost 20 per cent of all families with dependent children in Britain. Their numbers have nearly trebled since 1970. Politicians and the media have focused on them as a symptom and cause of a broader social breakdown, yet little is known about the causes, consequences and conditions of lone motherhood. Good Enough Mothering? provides accounts of historical patterns of mothering and ideologies of the family, cross-national comparisons of policies and experiences of lone mothers in developed and developing countries. It analyses recent social policies and legislative changes in family law, the Child Support Act and discourses about the creation of an underclass in Britain and the USA. This edited collection, with contributions from leading academics in their fields, builds on feminist scholarship on motherhood and 'the family' and contributes significantly to the feminist and social policy literature on lone mothers. Good Enough Mothering? will be essential reading for all students of social policy, women's studies and sociology.

Download or read book Practical Sampling Techniques written by Ranjan K. Som and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-09-13 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Edition offers a comprehensive presentation of scientific sampling principles and shows how to design a sample survey and analyze the resulting data. Demonstrates the validity of theorems and statements without resorting to detailed proofs.

Download or read book African Development Indicators 2005 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "African Development Indicators 2005 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It contains more than 500 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering over 50 African countries with data from 1965-2003. The book is grouped into 17 chapters: background data; national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external sector; external debt and related flows; government finance; agriculture; power, communications, and transportation;doing business; labor force and employment; aid flows; social indicators; environmental indicators; HIPC debt initiative; household welfare; and public enterprises. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction on the nature of the data and their limitations, followed by a set of statistical tables, charts, and technical notes that define the indicators and identify their specific source. Included are tables on HIV/AIDS, Communications and Transportation, and the HIPC Debt Initiative. Designed to provide all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data to monitor development programs and aid flows in the region, this is an invaluable reference tools for analysts and policymakers who want a better understanding of the economic and social developments occurring in Africa."

Download or read book Labour Market Planning Revisited written by M. Hopkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enables the reader to understand labour markets and shows how to forecast the need for skills in developing countries. The forecasting of these skills has recently fallen into disrepute with the notion that all forecasting techniques that assessed the labour market requirements of the future were dubious and that the future lay with labour market analysis and labour market signalling. This book disputes this but acknowledges that the models of the past should be supplemented with better data and improved labour market analysis and in doing so produces its own model for analysing the needs of labour markets.

Download or read book African Development Indicators 2001 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides data from 1970-99 with a wealth of indicators, grouped into 14 chapters: background data; national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external sector; external debt and related flows; government finance; agriculture; power, communications, and transportation; public enterprises; labor force and employment; aid flows; social indicators; environmental indicators; and household welfare indicators. African Development Indicators 2001 includes purchasing power parity (PPP) indicators. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction on the nature of the data and their limitations, followed by a set of charts, statistical tables, and technical notes that define the indicators and identify their specific source. The electronic version of the African Development Indicators 2001 is available separately in the World Bank Africa Database 2001 CD-ROM.