Rural Development

Topics on which either IIIE students have completed their thesis or currently working are as follows.

Resource Persons:

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Potential Topics for Research:

“Breaking the Constraints on Poor Women’s Livelihoods”.

The authors are Naila Kabeer of SOAS, Karishma Huda and Sandeep Kaur of the BRAC Development Institute, and Nicolina Lamhauge of the OECD Environment Directorate.

They draw some valuable practical lessons from the experience of two pilot projects in Asia that test BRAC’s multi-prong approach to empowering women to overcome the manifold obstacles preventing them from escaping extreme poverty.

For the full story, please read CDPR’s new Discussion Paper (#28/12) by the same authors: “Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty: Lessons from Pilot Projects in India and Pakistan”.