Suchergebnisse

Anti-poverty strategies in South Asia can be successful only if they effectively promote women's employment and income, which are essential for their families' survival. The study explores the high incidence of unemployment among female wage workers from landless households due to the labour-saving bias of certain new technologies and argues that a strategy of grass-root intervention could facilitate their access to larger-scale production, credit, improved technologies etc. (DÜI-Sen)

The driving forces behind the degradation of environmental resources in Botswana in the last decade, as in much of sub-Saharan African states, are social rather than environmental. While drought has been a major factor in the degradation of the environment, the greatest source of damage has been a set of social processes. These include the weakening of social control over access to land and water; agricultural subsidies together with the use of the agricultural development programme as a system of income support; and a rate of population growth that has led to a widening formal sector employment gap. This book explores these problems in an economy that has performed significantly better than most in sub-Saharan Africa whilst having similar structural characteristics. (DÜI-Hff)