Reaching the poor

Reaching the Poor

INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2033 K STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006-1002 PHONE: +1-202-862-5600 FAX: +1-202-467-4439 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.ifpri.org In the last two decades, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh have provided millions of poor rural people with savings and credit services at low cost. With these services they have reduced poverty, and m...

Targeting Reaching the Rural Poor Policy

Reaching Poor Areas in a Federal System

The welfare outcomes of decentralized federal programs aiming to reduce poverty nationally will depend on the reactions of diverse provincial governments. Central targeting of poor provinces improved under World Bank sponsored reforms to an Argentinean anti-poverty program. However, provincial ability at reaching poor areas was a more important factor in overall success. There was diverse, but ...

Closing the poor-rich gap in contraceptive use in urban Kenya: are family planning programs increasingly reaching the urban poor?

INTRODUCTION Kenya is characterized by high unmet need for family planning (FP) and high unplanned pregnancy, in a context of urban population explosion and increased urban poverty. It witnessed an improvement of its FP and reproductive health (RH) indicators in the recent past, after a period of stalled progress. The objectives of the paper are to: a) describe inequities in modern contraceptiv...

Reaching the betz limit experimentally and numerically

The Betz theory expresses that no horizontal axis wind turbine can extract more than 16/27 (59.3%) of the kinetic energy of the wind. The factor 16/27 (0.593) is known as the Betz limit. Horizontal Axis wind turbine designers try to improve the power performance to reach the Betz limit. Modern operational wind turbines achieve at peak 75% to 80% of the Betz limit. In 1919, Albert Betz used an a...