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This booke xplores country case studies and work that details the
exact transmission mechanisms through which financial development
can enhance pro-poor development in order to derive best practices
in this field. This is an important companion for professionals and
policymakers, and also a vital reference source for students.
This book explores country case studies and works that detail the
exact transmission mechanisms through which financial development
can enhance pro-poor development in order to derive best practices
in this field. This is an important companion for professionals and
policymakers, and also a vital reference source for students.
World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention
compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this
with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the
world by 2015. Hunger though is not a straightforward problem of
producing enough to feed the world's population; it has many
cross-cutting dimensions. This volume discusses the significance of
human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender
considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS
pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.
This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches
to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing
links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural
productivity and the environment.
What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for
food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high
growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the
poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger
adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's
socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted
programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly
needy?
Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition,
the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by
the campaign to end poverty. The emergence of the WTO and the
freeing of agricultural trade, for example, have serious
implications for hunger and food security in many countries, yet
this is an area that is relatively understudied. This book aims to
fill this gap by providing a significant collection of essays from
mainstream academia and prominent international organizations
working for food security. Examining food security across regions,
the book tackles food security at three distinct levels-national,
household, and individual. Other topics included are: attempts to
improve measurement tools; the applications of existing tools for
empirical analysis using household data, and; the impact of trade
openness on national food security.
The concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory
and practice of development more than half a century after they
were introduced into the debate. They help structure the way that
statistical services collect data on the economies of developing
countries, the development of theoretical and empirical analysis,
and, most important, the formulation and implementation of
policy.
This volume brings together a significant new collection of
studies on formality and informality in developing countries. The
volume is multidisciplinary in nature, with contributions from
anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political
scientists. It contains contributions from among the very best
analysts in development studies.
Between them the chapters argue for moving beyond the
formal-informal dichotomy. Useful as it has proven to be, a more
nuanced approach is needed in light of conceptual and empirical
advances, and in light of the policy failures brought about by a
characterization of the 'informal' as 'disorganized'. The wealth of
empirical information in these studies, and in the literature more
widely, can be used to develop guiding principles for intervention
that are based on ground level reality.
The concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory
and practice of development more than half a century after they
were introduced into the debate. They help structure the way that
statistical services collect data on the economies of developing
countries, the development of theoretical and empirical analysis,
and, most important, the formulation and implementation of policy.
This volume brings together a significant new collection of studies
on formality and informality in developing countries. The volume is
multidisciplinary in nature, with contributions from
anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political
scientists. It contains contributions from among the very best
analysts in development studies. Between them the chapters argue
for moving beyond the formal-informal dichotomy. Useful as it has
proven to be, a more nuanced approach is needed in light of
conceptual and empirical advances, and in light of the policy
failures brought about by a characterization of the 'informal' as
'disorganized'. The wealth of empirical information in these
studies, and in the literature more widely, can be used to develop
guiding principles for intervention that are based on ground level
reality.
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