CDIA was established to help Asian cities meet the challenge of development. While urban planning has improved in many Asian cities, there is often a “gap” between the strategic development plans that many cities have formulated (typically presenting a wish list of projects) and the requirement of potential financiers for considering only well-formulated infrastructure projects in order to consider funding the needed investments. The Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA), was establi more...
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'Urban Poverty in India takes stock of the present poverty scenario in India. It is divided in sections headlined issues and policies, women as marginalised subset among the urban poor, access to basic services, shelter for the urban poor, eradication and spatial distribution of urban poverty & urban poverty and Dalits. It attempts to identify workable practical measures to tackle urban poverty effectively. The problems requiring attention of urban planners, policy makers, technocrats, administr more...
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JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Pablo Gutman. Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and the environment that are at the core of the agenda of the social and cons more...
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AUTHOR: Duncan Green. PUBLISHER: Oxfam International. The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse – as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras. From Poverty to Power argues that it requires a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets to break the cycle of poverty and inequality and to give poor people power over their own destinies The forces driving more...
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'This paper examines the effectiveness of micro-finance banks in poverty reduction in Tanzania; using Akiba Commercial Bank, Dar Es Salaam, as a case study.'
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'The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard. This report presents snapshots of the financial crisis as seen by 21 thinkers, academics and policymakers in 14 developing countries.'
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'In spite of recent economic growth, poverty in India remains high. But what has been India’s poverty reduction rate over time? A new article published by the Indian Economic and Political Weekly draws on recent data from the World Bank’s International Comparison Program (ICP). A global price survey was used to calculate purchasing power parity (PPP) rates in which India participated for the first time in 20 years, to examine India’s poverty trends since 1981 in relation to other developin more...
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