Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS): Social Capital Initiative with the World Bank.
www.iris.umd.edu/adass/proj/soccap.asp Description: The Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), at the University of Maryland, College Park, was founded on the premise that countries with healthy institutions have correspondingly healthy economies.
Thus, IRIS offers a virtually unique perspective on economic development. IRIS researchers and consultants assist fledgling democracies and newly industrializing countries to build robust democratic, legal, and economic institutions which provide both a foundation and a guiding hand for future broad-based, stable economic growth. IRIS is working with the The World Bank's Initiative on Defining, Monitoring and Measuring Social Capital.[Back to top] Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID)
www.cid.harvard.edu/ Description: The Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID) was established in 1998, by the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) to serve as Harvard’s primary center for research on sustainable international development. Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs is the first Director of the Center.
CID has been established with one overriding conceptual notion: the need for cross-disciplinary approaches to the challenges of sustainable development. CID exists to bridge the gaps between disciplines, pulling together Harvard’s top minds as they, in collaboration with colleagues throughout the world, push forward the science of explaining the sources of and remedies for entrenched global poverty and the political and environmental circumstances that surround it.[Back to top] Chronic Poverty Research Centre
www.chronicpoverty.org/ Description: The Chronic Poverty Research Centre is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists to focus attention on chronic poverty, to stimulate national and international debate, to deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty, and to provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction. CPRC was established in 2000 with initial funding from DFID.[Back to top] CityPoverty
www.citypoverty.net/ Source: Max Lock Centre - University of Westminster, GHK Research and Training, WEDC - Loughborough University
Description: This site is intended to provide a focus for debate about urban poverty and tools for the reduction of poverty in urban areas, in the context of international development policy.[Back to top] Comparative Research Program on Poverty (CROP)
www.crop.org/ Description: Links to publications, research projects, poverty news, workshops. CROP publishes a newsletter with articles on current poverty issues. Includes information on the 1996 publication, "Handbook on International Poverty Research". One of CROP’s main objectives is to consider how scholars working within different paradigms can develop a joint arena for multi-paradigmatic poverty research.[Back to top] Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program at Cornell University
www.nutrition.cornell.edu/grad/cfnpp.html Source: Cornell University
Description: The Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program (CFNPP) was created in 1988 within the Division of Nutritional Sciences to assist those concerned with accelerating economic growth, alleviating malnutrition and improving health and educational outcomes in transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the United States. CFNPP activities include applied research, technical cooperation, training, and information exchange. Of particular interest is how investments in the social sectors, and the pattern and structure of growth, as mediated by economic policy, affects poverty, health, education and nutrition. Emphasis is on strengthening the capability of institutions and individuals in developing countries and transition economies to generate and utilize such knowledge and information.
[Back to top] Development Initiatives
www.devinit.org/ Description: Development Initiatives (DI) is an independent organization concerned with poverty, aid, development cooperation and international relations. DI works on policy analysis, NGO management, dissemination of information, strategic planning and evaluation, advocacy and government relations, and stakeholder analysis. The aim of the DI web site is to give people easy access to a wide range of information on poverty, aid and development.
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The Finance and Development Research Programme is a DFID-funded research program to identify effective financial sector policies for promoting poverty-reducing economic growth in low income countries.
The program publishes a newsletter.[Back to top] Development Resource Centre (DRC)
www.drc.org.nz/ Description: The DRC is a specialist information and education center in New Zealand providing information, training and consultancy services on development issues and practice. Formed in 1993 by a group of development organizations, the DRC reaches a range of New Zealanders across a number of sectors - formal education, development consultants, NGOs, business, government bodies, media, and the general public. The DRC now has extensive up-to-date electronic and hard copy resources, draws on a range of expertise in development practice and education, and offers a flexible menu of services.
[Back to top] Gapresearch.org - Globalisation and Poverty
www.gapresearch.org/ Source: Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Description: Gapresearch is the web site of the Globalisation and Poverty research programme directed from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, by Professor John Humphrey.
[Back to top] HIV InSite
hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite Source: University of California San Francisco
Description: HIV InSite, a gateway to AIDS knowledge, is a project of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies which are programs of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute. The site includes policy and statistics sections providing policymakers, researchers, and project managers from around the world with timely, in-depth, multidisciplinary analysis of key HIV/AIDS issues. [Back to top] IBGE: Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group)
www.ibge.gov.br/poverty/default.htm Source: IBGE, Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: The Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group) was created as a result of a Seminar on Poverty Statistics in Santiago, Chile, in May 1997, and is chaired by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, ECLAC, acting as Secretary. The web site offers information about the agenda of the Rio Group, its participants and the papers presented at its meetings.[Back to top] Information for Development in the 21st Century (ID21)
www.id21.org/ Source: U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)
Description: ID21 is a fast-track research reporting service backed by the UK Department for International Development. It aims to make policymakers and on-the-ground development managers aware of the latest and best in British development research findings.[Back to top] Institute for African Development (IAD)
www.einaudi.cornell.edu/africa/ Source: Cornell University
Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Description: The Institute for African Development (IAD) fosters teaching, research, and outreach related to food security, human resource development including refugee assistance environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance in Africa.[Back to top] Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
www.ids.ac.uk/ids/ Description: IDS is a national centre for research and teaching on development. It was established in 1966 and is an international authority in the field. Research and teaching are combined with operational work, advising governments and aid agencies, and helping to turn theory on development into practice. IDS serves as a forum for debate, hosting conferences and workshops and producing a range of publications. It has an active programme of international collaboration, and welcomes visiting researchers and development specialists from all over the world. The British Library for Development Studies is housed at IDS. One of the world's foremost development libraries, it serves as both a national and international documentation centre.
Related Sites:
IDS Poverty Research Team Home Page:this home page incorporates the Poverty Research Programme's work, including the Poverty Newsletter. Among other themes, it includes work on: elite perceptions of poverty; anti-poverty projects in dryland Africa; dynamics of poverty, and the politics and organisation of anti-poverty programmes.
Explore the resources available on Participationin the Development and Information Resources of the IDS.
GDNet Forumis a research review forum tool, which showcases research articles about a subject written by a member of the Global Development Network community. [Back to top] Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (IDSJ)
www.idsj.org/ Region: South Asia
Description: IDSJ is a multi-disciplinary research organization. It takes cognizance of the macro environment, planning processes and strategies including their socio-economic dimensions and attempts to make timely interventions through research and dialogue. Particular attention is given to the study of processes, the impact of trickle down effects of growth, direct public interventions such as poverty and employment programs and the participatory efforts of voluntary organization with respect to the marginalized section of the society. The Institute is specifically concerned with regional issues relating to Rajasthan.[Back to top] International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD): Poverty in Mountain Areas
www.icimod.org.sg/focus/poverty/pov_toc.htm Region: South Asia
Description: ICIMOD's mission is to help promote the development of an economically and environmentally sound mountain ecosystem and to improve the living standards of mountain populations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region. The Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, extending 3,500 km over eight countries from Afghanistan in the west to Mynamar in the east, sustains approximately 140 million people and affects the lives of more than three times as many in the plains and river basins below.[Back to top] International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
www.idrc.ca/ Description: The International Development Research Centre is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada to help researchers and communities in the developing world find solutions to their social, economic, and environmental problems. IDRC connects people, institutions, and ideas to ensure that the results of the research it supports and the knowledge that research generates, are shared equitably among all its partners, North and South.
Related Sites
IDRC Books:research results and scholarly studies on global and regional issues related to sustainable and equitable development. [Back to top] International Institute for Communication & Development (IICD)
www.iicd.org/ Description: The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) assists developing countries to utilise the opportunities offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs) towards realising sustainable development. IICD uses a cross-sectoral approach, in which local 'agents of change' themselves identify and develop proposals for realistic ICT applications. In IICD's view, local ownership forms an essential basis for sustainable socio-economic development. [Back to top] International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
www.iied.org/ Description: IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. Project work is multidisciplinary and addresses the science, social science, economics and cultural aspects of development problems. Programmes in all of these areas aim to help reduce poverty and manage global resources more equitably and efficiently.Related Sites:IIED Drylands Programme IIED's Drylands Programme seeks to promote better and more sustainable livelihoods for people in Africa's drylands. One of its main priorities is to disseminate information, in the form of books, papers, and journals, the majority of which are available free for download from the Programme's website.[Back to top] Livelihoods Connect
www.livelihoods.org/ Source: DFID and IDS
Description: Information resources on creating sustainable livelihoods to eliminate poverty. [Back to top] Luxembourg Income Study
www.lisproject.org Description: The Luxembourg Income Study is an international research project that maintains a harmonized database with microdata on household income surveys for most OECD-countries. The main goal is to provide researchers access to these data and to compile international comparable poverty and inequality indicators. The LIS is a non-profit organization that started in 1983 and is funded by the national science and social science research foundations of its member countries and by the government of Luxembourg.[Back to top] MacArthur Network on Inequality and Poverty
www.wws.princeton.edu/~rpds/macarthur/ Description: The MacArthur Network on Inequality and Poverty is a loosely knit research group concerned with a wide range of issues, all of which relate to poverty and inequality. It seeks to improve traditional definitions of welfare and living standards by going beyond the usual income or consumption based measures.[Back to top] Microfinance Gateway
www.microfinancegateway.org/ Source: CGAP and ELDIS
Description: The Microfinance Gateway is a one stop microfinance information hub. It is a forum for MFI practitioners, NGOs, Donors, and others to learn about microfinance topics and to share their knowledge.[Back to top] Overseas Development Council
www.odc.org/ Description: The Overseas Development Council (ODC) is an independent, international policy research institution based in Washington, DC, that seeks to improve decision making on multilateral cooperation to promote more effective development and the better management of related global problems. Its program focuses on the interrelationship of globalization and development, and improved multilateral responses to these linked challenges.[Back to top] Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
www.odi.org.uk/ Description: ODI is Britain’s leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Its mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.
Related Sites:
ODI Poverty Briefings[Back to top] Panos Institute
www.panosinst.org/default.shtml Description: The PARIS 21 initiative, launched in November 1999, aims to help bridge the gaps in statistical capacity which are affecting the ability to formulate effective policy in developing countries. Better statistics can make efforts to fight poverty more effective both at the national level, by improving the ability of governments to formulate appropriate policies, manage economic and social development, and monitor improvements in living standards, and at the global level, by providing data to monitor the International Development Goals which have been set for the 21st century.[Back to top] PARIS 21 (PARtnerships In Statistics for development in the 21st Century)
www.paris21.org/ Description: The PARIS 21 initiative, launched in November 1999, aims to help bridge the gaps in statistical capacity which are affecting the ability to formulate effective policy in developing countries. Better statistics can make efforts to fight poverty more effective both at the national level, by improving the ability of governments to formulate appropriate policies, manage economic and social development, and monitor improvements in living standards, and at the global level, by providing data to monitor the International Development Goals which have been set for the 21st century.[Back to top] Poverty Reduction Learning Network
www.ids.ac.uk/prln/ Source: Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Description: The Poverty Reduction Learning Network is a network of academics, practitioners, donor agencies, government ministers and NGOs who are committed to sharing their knowledge, skills and learning within a community setting.[Back to top] Poverty Research Unit (PRUS) – University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/PRU/ Source: University of Sussex
Description: Describes mission of PRUS and research objectives. Links to quarterly newsletters published by PRUS with information on PRUS workshops and publications, and other contemporary publications on poverty.[Back to top] Social Capital Conference at Michigan State University
www.ssc.msu.edu/~internat/soccap/logo.htm Source: Michigan State University
Description: This conference was designed to bring together academics, students and practitioners from different disciplines and divergent practical interests who share an interest in social capital and its consequences. The goal of the conference is to define the essential characteristics of social capital, measure its importance, and investigate its practical uses.[Back to top] Strengthening Micro Health Insurance Units for the Poor in India
www.microhealthinsurance-india.org Region: South Asia
Country: India
Description: "Strengthening Micro Health Insurance Units for the Poor in India" is a consortium of not for profit research and business organizations sharing a common goal: help to establish health insurance for the poor in India using microinsurance. The project will focus on issues determining the demand for insurance among the poor (e.g. trust, preferred package design, willingness to pay, understanding of insurance principles) as well as on the supply side of microinsurance (pricing, product design, transaction costs, regulatory requirements etc.), with special emphasis on the schemes’ long term stability. [Back to top] The "Canberra Group": An Expert Group on Household Income Statistics
www.lis.ceps.lu/canberra.htm Source: The Canberra Group
Description: Papers from the two meetings of the "Canberra Group", an Expert Group on household income statistics. The Group was formed with a focus on national statistics on household income distribution and inequality and with a desire to improve the quality of international comparisons in this area.
[Back to top] The Aspen Institute
www.aspeninst.org/ Description: The Aspen Institute is a global forum for leaders to discuss and debate issues of critical importance to the US and international communities, with the goal of leveraging their power to improve the human condition. The Institute's International Peace, Security & Prosperity Program (IPSP) has various publications on international poverty, while the Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) and the Community Strategies Group focus on the US.[Back to top] The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
www.foodfirst.org/ Description: Non-profit research and education-for-action center highlighting root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to food as a human right with several different programs [Back to top] Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
www.bris.ac.uk/poverty/ Source: University of Bristol
Description: The Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research was launched on 1st July 1999 at the University of Bristol. It is dedicated to multidisciplinary research on poverty in both the industrialised and developing world.[Back to top] University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)
utip.gov.utexas.edu/ Source: University of Texas
Description: The University of Texas Inequality Project is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world.[Back to top] Virtual Library on Micro-Credit
www.gdrc.org/icm/ Source: Hari Srinivas, Dept of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Description: A repository of information on microcredit (in a broad meaning of the term to include microcredit, community development, NGOs, poverty, environment, microenterprises etc.). Its main aim is to support microfinance and related activities with information on policies, strategies, tools, case studies etc.
Related Sites
Master Indexof all information available on this homepage [Back to top] World Hunger Program & HungerWeb
www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/ Source: Brown University
Description: The research of the WHP advances fundamental understanding of the prevalence, persistence, and prevention of hunger and focuses particularly on long-term trends in environmental resources, technology, diet, nutrition, population, and health.
It has under way studies on:
- The demography of hunger and the sources of differential vulnerability to hunger
- Long term scenarios of the impact on hunger of biotechnology and techniques of agricultural intensification
- Participatory research involving biotechnology scientists and managers from firms, foundations, and universities who are considering how emerging biotechnologies can contribute to overcoming hunger
- Interdependence of political institutions and values, especially as these protect and promote human rights to food and nutrition, including cultural and religious perspectives and activities that further achievement of such rights
- An exploration of the relationships among hunger, environment, poverty, and development
Structural, functional, and practical analyses of the roles that grassroots organizations play in overcoming hunger through sustainable development activities
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List of Publications
Hunger Related Data Sources
Directory of US NGOs active internationally[Back to top] World Poverty Map
www.cis.hut.fi/research/som-research/worldmap.html Source: Neural Networks Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology
Description: Using a "Self Organizing Map" (SOM) technique, takes various 1992 World Bank indicators on quality of life for different countries and creates a world poverty map. The SOM can be used to portray complex correlations in statistical data.[Back to top]
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