Impact Initiative - Health: Recent submissions
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Inequality Among the MPI Poor, and Regional Disparity in Multidimensional Poverty: Levels and Trends
(2014)Poverty reduction is not necessarily uniform across all poor people in a country, or across population subgroups; an improvement overall may yet leave the poorest of the poor behind. In 2014 we use a new measure to analyse ... -
Poverty, participation and aerial cable-cars: a case study of Medellín, Colombia.
(2011)Introduction This paper reflects on partial results of an on-going research project seeking to learn systematically from a set of public transport and urban upgrading interventions fostered by the local government of ... -
Murder capital to modern miracle? The progression of governance in Medellin, Colombia
(2012)The most violent city in the world only twenty years ago, Medellín, Colombia is now a beacon of progressive urban development. Governance and structuration theory provide an analytical framework through which three stages ... -
Impacto del Sistema de Cable Aéreo (Metrocable) Sobre la Accesibilidad en la Comuna #1 de Medellín
(2011)La ciudad de Medellín inauguró en el año 1995 un sistema de Metro, sin embargo en el año 2004 todavía existían algunas zonas de la ciudad con problemas de transporte. Este es el caso de la comuna #1 de Medellín, la cual ... -
Transport, Urban Development and the Peripheral Poor in Colombia: Placing Splintering Urbanism in the Context of Transport Networks
(2013)In rapidly growing cities the evolution of utility and communication infrastructures has enabled the creation of ‘premium networked spaces’ exclusively for wealthier groups thus deepening already large social inequalities. ... -
Aerial Cable-car Systems for Public Transport in Low-income Urban Areas: Lessons from Medellin, Colombia
(2011)In 2004 the first urban aerial cable-car public transport system was introduced in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The imaginative application of ski-slope technology to high-gradient, low-income urban areas attracted ... -
SRI Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh: Achievements, Problems and implications for Greenhouse Gases and Work
(2013)Strategies and solutions to meet the challenges of GHGs call for new methods and technologies. Potential options for the rice industry sector to contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change by increasing ... -
Obtaining the perspective of the TB patient attending diagnostic services in Yemen: A qualitative study employing In Depth Interviews and Focus Group Discussions
(2013)In this entry, we present the qualitative phase of a multi-method, multi-country study exploring barriers and enablers to accessing TB diagnosis. We describe the implementation of the study in Yemen, of particular interest ... -
Energy Gardens for Small-Scale Farmers in Nepal Institutions, Species and Technology. Field Work Report
The Nepal Energy Garden forges new links across disciplines by integrating research on the institutional economics of energy and technology transfer with the knowledge of botanists and engineers. The objectives are ...