Organizations are quite literally a missing link in poverty reduction policies and plans. Yet we know that any two organizations can differ greatly from each other in terms of climate, leadership, and culture鈥攁nd that these differences make a difference to performances by NGOs, businesses, ...
The members learn from each other, innovate together and, by increasing control over livelihoods, restore the dignity that the experience of poverty destroys. India is home of 500,000 cooperatives and similar number of other type of community based organizations. Many of them are engaged in ...
But Doug understood that the neoclassical economics on which he was raised was inadequate to address the problems he sought to answer, namely, why are a few countries rich while most remain poor, some in dire poverty? Much of his best work addressed this question. Read the whole thing here...
U.N. secretary generals have claimed that it is "the single most important factor in eradicating poverty and promoting development," while the bureaus of other pow- erful IOs like the World Bank have drawn global attention to the concept (United Nations, 1998; Wolfensohn, 1996; World Bank,...
A common misconception about non-profits is that they shouldn’t make profits. But a good not-for-profit organization needs to be sustainable, which involves making profits and even investing money. The difference with these non-profit organizations is that the profits go to benefit the ...
But Doug understood that the neoclassical economics on which he was raised was inadequate to address the problems he sought to answer, namely, why are a few countries rich while most remain poor, some in dire poverty? Much of his best work addressed this question. ...
The total number of private militia groups climbed to an estimated 370 in 1996, according to the Southern Poverty Center, which is well-known for tracking hate groups in the United States. Militia groups faded quickly in the latter half of the 1990s, however. Law enforcement officials began ...
The Diyalo Foundation establishes schools, agricultural projects, and energy programs in rural communities of Nepal. The organization aims to combat high illiteracy and poverty rates in the country by providing free, high-quality education with an agricultural focus. Students learn in the schools’ agr...
Field research conducted in Moscow in 2009 revealed that government efforts to combat human trafficking in Russia currently fall short thereby perpetuating a cycle of human trafficking, corruption, organized crime, and poverty. 展开 学位级别: M.A. 学位年度: 2010 ...
potential new donors, even those who have the resources, from using foreign aid as a status- enhancing strategy. For example, while India is eager to reframe itself as a donor, domestic poverty means that “the transfer of resources to other countries… would be unpopular” (Price,2004, 10...