Food Security and Nutrition
Food Security and Nutrition

Author: Uwe Kracht

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 9783825831660

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The persistence of an unacceptably high level of hunger and malnutrition worldwide presents a serious challenge to the world on the threshold of the third millenium. Although enough food is produced to feed mankind, about 840 million people go hungry; among them are 185 million pre-school children that are severely underweight for their age. Since an additional 80 million people have to be fed each year, achieving food security is a central global challenge, if not the most important development issue. The aim of the reader is to analyze actual problems in the field of food security and nutrition and to discuss present and future strategies to overcome hunger. Food security is a complex subject. In order to master this complexity, we distinguish between four dimensions of analyses: Theoretical-analytical, empirical-descriptive, normative-political, institutional. (Series: Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungsländern/Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries - Vol. 50)

How should rural financial cooperatives be best organized? Evidence from Ethiopia
How should rural financial cooperatives be best organized? Evidence from Ethiopia

Author: Abay, Kibrom A.

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13:

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What is the optimal size and composition of Rural Financial Cooperatives (RFCs)? With this broad question in mind, we characterize alternative formation of RFCs and their implications in improving the access of rural households to financial services, including savings, credit, and insurance services. We find that some features of RFCs have varying implications for delivering various financial services. The size of RFCs is found to have a nonlinear relationship with the various financial services RFCs provide. We also show that compositional heterogeneity among members, including diversity in wealth, is associated with higher access to credit services, while this has little implication on households’ savings behavior. Similarly, social cohesion among members is strongly associated with higher access to financial services. These empirical descriptions suggest that the optimal size and composition of RFCs may vary across the domains of financial services they are designed to facilitate. This evidence provides suggestive insights on how to ensure financial inclusion among smallholders, a pressing agenda and priority of policy makers in developing countries, including Ethiopia. The results also provide some insights into rural microfinance operations which are striving to satisfy members’ demand for financial services.

The Credibility of Microcredit
The Credibility of Microcredit

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-04-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9004252185

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The Credibility of Microcredit offers an objective assessment of microfinance worldwide by way of interdisciplinary research. It features works from leading researchers in the field of microfinance, as well as new names, employing a variety of methods and theoretical approaches.

Studies in Development Strategy and Systemic Transformation
Studies in Development Strategy and Systemic Transformation

Author: K. Griffin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-05-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0230510418

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Studies in Development Strategy and Systemic Transformation contains eleven essays by Keith Griffin on many of the contemporary leading issues in economic development. Topics covered include the role of culture in long-term economic growth, globalization and economic governance, human development, and the effects of the distribution of productive wealth on the pace of development. There are also discussions of alternative reform strategies in the transition economies and of an investment-led strategy of structural adjustment in Subsaharan Africa.

Research Handbook of Finance and Sustainability
Research Handbook of Finance and Sustainability

Author: Sabri Boubaker

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 1786432633

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The severe consequences of the global financial crisis 2008-2009 and numerous accounting frauds and financial scandals over the last fifteen years have let to calls for more ethical and responsible actions in all economic activities including consumption, investing, governance and regulation. Despite the fact that ethics in business and corporate social responsibility rules have been adopted in various countries, more efforts have to be devoted to motivate and empower more actors to integrate ethical behavior and rules in making business and managerial decisions. The Research Handbook of Finance and Sustainability will provide the readers but particularly investors, managers, and policymakers with comprehensive coverage of the issues at the crossroads of finance, ethics and sustainable development as well as proposed solutions, while focusing on three different levels: corporations, investment funds, and financial markets.

Decentralized Planning and Participatory Rural Development
Decentralized Planning and Participatory Rural Development

Author: Purnendu Sekhar Das

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9788180691935

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Contributed articles presented at two seminars on regional planning and participatory rural development predominantly on West Bengal held at Dept. of Economics with Rural Development, Vidyasagar University.