civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …

The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by … InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, and … country studies carried out with partners in Argentina, Uruguay, Tanzania, South Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. ICT was …

Poor governance and lack of state capabilities in around 45 countries pose a threat to global security and development …

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor … achieved through the processes of planned development since the early fifties, have made a significant dent in the incidence of …

costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four …

The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational …

The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in … poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective human development by financing public …