Governments in many countries are decentralising to give more control over decision making and budgets to local administrations. One expectation of this change is that local governments will more effectively and efficiently respond to the poorest citizens in their jurisdictions. Decentralisation is especially significant to forest communities, which have historically benefited little from government services and poverty reduction programmes because of their physical isolation and social marginalisation.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Bolivia, Indonesia
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Library ResourceDecember, 2004Ecuador, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceDecember, 2004Peru, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005
The importance of poverty reduction to the world development agenda has motivated greater interest in the geographic dimensions of poverty and food security. This special issue of Food Policy includes examples of poverty and food security mapping used to support policy development in agricultural and rural areas. The volume includes eight country case studies and one cross-country comparison that illustrate advances in our capacity to assess welfare over large areas and at detailed spatial resolutions.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1991
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Bolivia, Indonesia
Governments in many countries are decentralising to give more control over decision making and budgets to local administrations. One expectation of this change is that local governments will more effectively and efficiently respond to the poorest citizens in their jurisdictions. Decentralisation is especially significant to forest communities, which have historically benefited little from government services and poverty reduction programmes because of their physical isolation and social marginalisation.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2007Bolivia, Indonesia
Governments in many countries are decentralising to give more control over decision making and budgets to local administrations. One expectation of this change is that local governments will more effectively and efficiently respond to the poorest citizens in their jurisdictions. Decentralisation is especially significant to forest communities, which have historically benefited little from government services and poverty reduction programmes because of their physical isolation and social marginalisation.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2001
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2005Ecuador, South America
We examine the geographic dimensions of food consumption in Ecuador, which has one of the highest rates of chronic infant undernutrition in Latin America. We use statistical and spatial analyses to examine the distribution of food consumption and food poverty and to test and generate hypotheses of food poverty estimates at the district level. Results show that the food poor are concentrated in certain locations with a significant cluster identified in the central Andean region.
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Library ResourceMultimediaDecember, 1999
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