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Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

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Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

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Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]

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Issue briefing

Gender equality: it’s your business

06/03/2012

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This Briefing for Business is intended for senior managers in global and national companies, especially those retailing and producing food and fast-moving consumer goods, and which source goods or labour in developing countries. Although many companies already do much to protect human rights in their operations and value chains, there is more that they can […]

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Briefing paper

Left Behind by the G20? How inequality and environmental degradation threaten to exclude poor people from the benefits of economic growth

19/01/2012

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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The G20 is committed to supporting equitable and sustainable growth. But new data shows that a lot needs to change if they are to live up to this pledge. The stakes are high: analysis in this paper suggests that without attention to growing inequality, strong growth is unlikely to be enough to prevent poverty increasing […]

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Can microcredit worsen poverty? Cases of exacerbated poverty in Bangladesh

01/11/2011

12 pages long

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Worldwide, microcredit has been recognised as a successful innovation in poverty alleviation. However, some claim that microcredit exacerbates poverty in developing countries. This study examines cases in Bangladesh where microcredit has actually worsened poverty among borrowers and investigates the underlying reasons for this adverse trend. Our results show that microcredit can exacerbate poverty in four […]

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Issue briefing

Not a Game, Speculation vs Food Security: Regulating financial markets to grow a better future

03/10/2011

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Food prices are a matter of life and death to many in the developing world. Financial markets that should be helping food growers and processors to manage their risk and set prices have become a potential threat to global food security. Deregulated and secretive agricultural commodity derivatives markets have attracted huge sums of speculative money, […]

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Briefing note

Out of the Bunker: Time for a fair deal on shipping emissions

08/09/2011

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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International shipping is a major – and rapidly growing – source of greenhouse gas emissions. Agreement to apply a carbon price to shipping can both reduce emissions and raise funds for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. This paper shows that doing so is possible while ensuring developing countries face no net costs. […]

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Journal article

A comparative analysis of microfinance and conditional cash transfers in Latin America

01/08/2011

15 pages long

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This paper addresses the question of whether microfinance and conditional cash transfers can be effective in alleviating poverty in the Latin American region, and provides a comprehensive assessment of each of these programmes using data and evaluation reports from 19 countries in the Latin American region, analysed in the context of six operational and impact […]

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Microfinance in online space: a visual analysis of kiva.org

01/08/2011

13 pages long

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Microfinance practices were originally developed in offline contexts. Modern microfinance practices were based on development models for the financial and social empowerment of the poorest of poor in developing countries. Several of these practices drew from existing traditions of money lending within local communities that were reformed to be in sync with rural development and […]

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Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

01/08/2011

11 pages long

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Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

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The Village Development Fund (VDF) is used in Thailand to empower the rural poor, especially women living with disabilities. This article investigates the problems of gaining access to credit faced by physically disabled women in rural Thailand. In-depth interviews with 20 women with physical disabilities in north-eastern Thailand indicate that these women still do not […]

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Issue briefing

Gender and the Green Climate Fund

18/07/2011

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Women are on the front line of coping with, and adapting to, the effects of climate change. Both climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation responses affect women and men differently. Yet current climate finance institutions almost entirely ignore gender issues. The Green Climate Fund cannot afford to make the same mistake. Many agree the […]

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