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Can cash transfers prevent inter-generational poverty in South Africa?
Zunia | Poverty 21 03 2010

Sustainable livelihoods and pro-poor market development
Zunia | Poverty 21 03 2010

ZAMBIA: School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial Success
IPS | Development 20 03 2010

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Eldis | General

Information strategic, policy or practical interest for development practitioners based in both the North and South.

What other regions can learn from Latin America's growth models
16 03 2010 Latin America seems to have fared relatively well during the recent international financial crisis, in contrast to previous financial crises episodes, ...

Full social returns to education
15 03 2010 This paper reports new estimates of the social returns to education, using countries' economic performance during 1960-85 to capture the externalities ...

Quality of education and economic development
15 03 2010 This paper, addresses the area of quality in education in developing countries. Two types of study are presented here: the first relates to the economic ...

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OECD Observer

The OECD Observer magazine presents concise, up-to-date and authoritative analysis of world economic, social and environmental issues.

Chile’s accession to the OECD
14 03 2010 Chile is set to become the OECD’s 31st member country. It is a momentous occasion, as captured in the following extracts from speeches by President Michelle Bachelet of Chile and by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, following the signing of the agreement on the terms of accession by the Republic of Chile to the OECD Convention, delivered in Santiago, Chile, 11 January 2010.

Latest economic data
14 03 2010

Buy local?
14 03 2010 On 27 May 1882, The Times newspaper proclaimed, "Today we have to record such a triumph over physical difficulties, as would have been incredible, even unimaginable, a very few years ago". They weren't talking about Queen Victoria avoiding a recent assassination attempt by a poet she'd annoyed or Jesse James having less luck with a friend he'd trusted. They were talking about sheep meat.

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IPS | Development

Global news agency producing independent news and analysis about events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations, especially in the South.

DEVELOPMENT: Political Will the Missing Link for MDGs
20 03 2010 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (IPS) - Despite numerous factors that threaten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 - a global financial crisis, a food crisis, climate change, natural disasters – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week that his main concern is "political will".

ZAMBIA: School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial Success
20 03 2010 LUSAKA, Mar 19 (IPS) - Naomi Mulenga is determined to beat the odds by finishing her school education and becoming a nurse – despite being a teenage mother.

KENYA: Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods
20 03 2010 NAIROBI, Mar 19 (IPS) - After torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya’s North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid.

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Zunia | Poverty

Zunia (formerly dgCommunities) is both a place to find knowledge resources focused on development issues and an interactive space to share knowledge, participate in discussions and find people with similar interests.

Sustainable livelihoods and pro-poor market development
21 03 2010 "Specific interventions are needed to build people’s confidence and self-esteem and encourage them to engage in market-based livelihood activities. Social differences clearly create barriers: better understanding is needed of how systems of exclusion operate and how pro-poor market approaches can overcome them."

Can cash transfers prevent inter-generational poverty in South Africa?
21 03 2010 "Cash transfers reduce current poverty by enhancing poor people’s access to food and other basic needs. Claims for long term impacts can also made, based on recipients’ investment of cash grants in their farm, business or human capital. Evidence from South Africa confirms that cash transfers achieve positive education, health and nutrition outcomes – even without attaching conditions."

Alleviating the worst of poverty with water, resilience and innovation
19 03 2010 The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) aims to increase the resilience of social and ecological systems through better water management for food production. In its second research phase, from 2009-2013, it focuses on key water-for-food development challenges within large river basins of key importance for smallholder water and food security.In this seminar, the Director of the CPWF, Alain Vidal; the Research Director, Larry Harrington, and a CPWF team member, Amanda Harding will dr

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Oxfam International | Press Releases

Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.

EU Foreign Policy Chief must match strong words with action on the Gaza blockade
17 03 2010

As EU foreign policy chief Baroness Ashton prepares to visit the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Oxfam International urges her to make the immediate lifting of the Israeli-imposed blockade h read more

Failed rains put 10 million people at risk of a food crisis across West Africa
17 03 2010 Oxfam calls for urgent response to warning signs, citing delays that cost lives last time the region faced a severe food shortfall

Almost 10 million people across the Sahel read more

EU Ministers debate emissions targets
16 03 2010

Responding to EU Environment Ministers Meeting today to discuss Europe's plan of action on climate change post Copenhagen, including the conditions under which the EU might increase read more

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UN | IRIN

Humanitarian news and analysis of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

PHILIPPINES: Planning for the "Big One"
19 03 2010 MANILA, 19 March 2010 (IRIN) - The Philippines government is preparing for a massive earthquake in the metro Manila area, but local authorities' efforts need to be stepped up, experts say.

KENYA: Draft policy offers new hope for IDPs
19 03 2010 NAIROBI, 19 March 2010 (IRIN) - Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kenya are set to enjoy greater protection under a national policy that also aims to prevent future displacement and to fulfil the country's obligations under international IDP law, say analysts.

KENYA: Cholera risk spreading
19 03 2010 NAIROBI, 19 March 2010 (IRIN) - As of 15 March, 15 districts nationwide were affected with cholera, with 663 cases confirmed since January, according to a Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation update. At least 15 deaths have been recorded.

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The Broker

Bimonthly magazine on international development issues

Is the aid system at a tipping point?
14 03 2010 Complexity approaches have a lot to offer the aid business, if it is not already too late. We asked Nils Boesen to comment on the blog postings from a recent conference.

Conclusion: Less pretension, more ambition
14 03 2010 Development aid is a subject for discussion. In many ways the world has improved immensely over the past sixty years, however the question is increasingly being raised as to what aid’s contribution was to this development. Progress has primarily become apparent over the last couple of decades. Over the past twenty-five years, life expectancy in all developing countries has risen by ten years, and the percentage of children attending school has doubled. Poverty around the globe has also halve

The long shadow of slavery
14 03 2010 A few months ago I was in Ghana and visited St George’s castle in Elmina, the infamous fort used by the Dutch to hold large numbers of African slaves prior to their ‘export’ to the New World. The Dutch captured the fort from the Portuguese in 1637, and when the slave-trading days were over they handed it over to the British in 1871. St George’s castle is imposing and grim. Its current status as a UNESCO world heritage site is well deserved.

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DFID | News

Help for cyclone-hit Fiji
18 03 2010 The Department for International Development will provide £100,000 to the Fijian Red Cross to help with the immediate disaster relief efforts.

Support to the peace process in Nepal
18 03 2010 DFID today committed £5 million (550 million NRS) in UKaid to be spent through the Nepal Peace Trust Fund (NPTF) in support of the peace process in Nepal.

Project to fight poverty and climate change in Bangladesh
18 03 2010 International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander announced today that a new phase of a ground breaking project in Bangladesh to fight poverty and combat climate change will start in April.

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USAID | Press Releases

Recent press releases from the US Agency for International Development.

Innovative Ideas wanted: US Government to host an online conversation: 'Global Pulse 2010'
16 03 2010 Global Pulse 2010, a three-day virtual event aimed at bringing together thousands of people from around the globe to discuss the world's most pressing challenges and envision solutions, will launch March 29, 2010.

USAID Administrator Raj Shah Launches "Helping Shelter Haiti" Exhibit
15 03 2010 TODAY, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah announced the launch of 'Helping Shelter Haiti,' an interactive, first-of-its kind exhibit that illustrates the agency's plans for sheltering those displaced by the January 12th earthquake.

International Women of Courage Awardees Visit USAID
15 03 2010 Today, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah welcomed the 2010 International Women of Courage Award winners from Afghanistan, Dominican Republic, Korea and Sri Lanka to USAID.

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IDRC News

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

IDRC Celebrates 40 Years of Innovating for Development
14 03 2010 Throughout the year, IDRC will mark this milestone by highlighting the contributions that our staff and research partners have made over the past four decades.

In Memoriam: Ralston Milton Rex Nettleford
14 03 2010 It is with deep sadness that the International Development Research Centre shares the news of the passing of Rex Nettleford, a founding IDRC Governor, on February 2, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Watch or Listen to Past Events at IDRC
14 03 2010 IDRC recently hosted public events by three eminent speakers. Listen to recordings of talks by Gebisa Ejeta, Colin Keating, and Mats Berdal.

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