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Manual/guidelines, 2007
Monitoring through the periodic collection, analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of relevant information is critical to know whether progress is being made and whether policies, programmes and other actions by government and other stakeholders adequately...
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Information product, 2007
Until recently, human rights issues have been the domain of lawyers and human rights campaigners while resource access issues were tackled by technical interventions and political mobilization. Today human rights principles and language are being...
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FOCUS ON series
Information product, 2007
Enabling people to feed themselves is the primary obligation of states. When individuals are unable to do so, in cases such as when HIV/AIDS makes them physically incapable or when loss of infected parents leaves...
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Journal articles, 2007
This report reviews gender issues in Liberia’s agriculture and rural sector with a special focus
on rural women and how to improve their participation and contribution to rural development. The report reviews women’s roles in...
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Journal articles, 2007
This paper contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of developing country rural labour markets by re-evaluating the available evidence on the levels and composition of income sources adopted by rural households in order to...
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Journal articles, 2007
The paper discusses the economic effects of misallocation of public expenditures in favor of private goods rather than public goods. It first lays out certain key hypotheses regarding the consequences of the apparent public sector...
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Journal articles, 2007
This paper explores a territorial approach to rural development in Latin America. It first reviews evidence that progress in rural social development has not been accompanied by reductions in income poverty and inequality. It then...
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Information product, 2007
All over the world, unequal access to power and resources is central to discrimination against women in the community, market, state and even within their own households.
Correcting this inequality is vital to realize women’s...
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Lessons learned in Brazil
Manual/guidelines, 2007
One-third of Brazil’s export earnings come from agriculture, yet in 2004, 72 million of its 185 million residents were affected by food insecurity (Institute of Geography and Statistics). Only when this situation became unacceptable to...
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ESA Working Paper 07-01
Working paper, 2007
In this paper we examine the effects of the composition (between private and public goods) of government expenditures in the rural world, and the effect that corruption has in the political game that determines these...
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