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The Impact of Agricultural Mechanisation on Poverty Alleviation in a Seasonal Environment: a project evaluation from northern Bangladesh
Zug, Sebastian - 2008
line with their policies. In the example of Bangladesh poverty reduction is the principle concern of rural development … analysed, which is going to be implemented in a vast area of Northern Bangladesh. Through agricultural extension a short …
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Personenorientierte Koordination internationaler Aktivitäten in Entwicklungs-NGOs: Fallstudienanalyse und Entwicklung eines Bezugsrahmens
Festing, Marion; Okech, Jana - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 3, pp. 249-271
Das (Personal-) Management und die Organisation von internationalen Entwicklungs- NGOs sind bisher wenig erforscht. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, Aufschluss darüber zu gewinnen, wie diese Organisationen ihre internationalen Aktivitäten koordinieren und welche Einflussfaktoren hier eine Rolle...
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Model of NGO regulation with an application to Uganda
Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2011
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending, but imposes wasteful costs of...
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Poverty incidence and sectoral growth: Evidence from Southeast Asia
Warr, Peter G. - 2002
In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of these countries inequality increased at the same time. This paper examines the relationship between these outcomes and the rate of economic growth in the agricultural, industrial...
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Equitable access to land as a means of poverty reduction in rural china
Hao, Yan - 2011
In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...
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Rural Poverty in Transition Countries
Macours, Karen; Swinnen, Johan - 2006
This paper uses new poverty data based on household level surveys to analyze changes in rural poverty and rural-urban poverty differences in 23 transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the firmer Soviet Union. The paper presents a series of hypotheses to explain differences across...
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Village pay phones and poverty reduction: Insights from a Grameen Bank initiative in Bangladesh
Bayes, Abdul; von Braun, Joachim; Akhter, Rasheda - 1999
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Family planning as an investment in development: evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2007
The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …
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Attaining universal access: Public-private partnership and business-NGO partnership
Chowdhury, Shyamal K. - 2002
Bangladesh, that provide rural people with access to telecommunications. The two mechanisms that are examined here are considered …-Private Partnership in Peru complies with all of the three criteria, the Business-NGO partnership in Bangladesh complies with the first … Bangladesh. The success of the Business-NGO Partnership implies that the eplication of such a mechanism might require the pre …
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Peaceful coexistence? The role of religious schools and NGOs in the growth of female secondary schooling in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291435