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The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-Based and -Driven Development

Operations Evaluation Department - 2012

This report analyzes the effectiveness of the World Bank's lending support for the growing area of community-based development (CBD) and community-driven development (CDD). The latter supports the empowerment of the poor by giving communities control over subproject resources and decisions,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563435

Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275920

The south at the end of the twentieth century : rethinking the political economy of foreign policy in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America

Swatuk, Larry A. (contributor); Shaw, Timothy M. (contributor) - 1994

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000374944

Globalisierung und Peripherie : Umstrukturierung in Lateinamerika, Afrika und Asien

Parnreiter, Christof (ed.); Akinyemi, Rasheed (contributor) - 1999 - 1. Aufl.

Menschen in Lateinamerika, Afrika und Asien entscheidend. Die Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren wie die Einbindung der … Beispiel Brasilien, Andreas Novy, Christine Mattl; Globalisierung, Menschenrechte und Demokratie in Afrika, Rasheed Akinyemi …