This chapter provides an overview of the current status of renewable energy projects and identifies the key success factors of well-performing public–private partnerships (PPPs). To this end, this study analyses around 1,700 renewable projects on the World Bank’s Private Participation in...

Maladies afflicting the higher education system in developing countries are well represented by what is happening in India and have been discussed in detail by many researchers and educationists (Anandakrishnan, 2008; Balram, 2005, 2008). The Government of India has formulated different projects and...

Agricultural growth, bolstered by technological advancements and international trade, enhances economic stability and food security in many developing nations in one hand, and reduces income disparities between developed and less developed nations on the other. However, the instability in...

Chapter 1 The Breadwinner -- Chapter 2 The Good wife -- Chapter 3 Domestic Violence The Unimaginable Trauma -- Chapter 4 Single Mother The Resiliency of a Woman -- Chapter 5 Single Women The Sandwich Generation.

Drawing on the results of project evaluations in Asia and Africa, this work supports the view that voluntary organizations are effective in reducing rural poverty. However, it also shows that voluntary agencies do not always reach the poor through economic programmes.

Clive Bell's graduate text addresses the use of public economics in the formulation of development policy. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost-benefit analysis as a means to controlling public expenditure decisions.

This research survey, commissioned by the UNFPA, measures the effects of women's education on fertility and female autonomy. It reviews the considerable evidence that has emerged from the developing world and lays out the policy implications of these findings.