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Practical Experiences in Combining Poverty and Environment at the National Level The Experience of South Africa

24 November 2016
Poverty in South Africa is seen as one of the major challenges facing the young democracy. This is compounded by the high and continually increasing unemployment figures, with the youth and women being the most vulnerable groups. Such problems forced the population to overutilize the country’s…

Orissa India Public Enterprise Reform

25 October 2016
Financial and public enterprise challenges in Orissa, one of India’s poorer states, posed great concern at the start of the new millennium. A chaotic political machine is inherited by the newly-installed state official. Yet the new chief minister, together with some civil servants, championed…

Wenling City China Infrastructure Reform

25 October 2016
Like many other municipalities in the People’s Republic of China, heart to heart discussion meetings as a form of local consultation in Wenling City’s Zeguo township are, oftentimes, exclusively dominated. Local officials consider deliberative polling as a transparent, balanced, and representative…

Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project

31 March 2016
The Nam Theun 2 (NT2) Hydroelectric Power Project in the Lao People’s Democratric Republic (Lao PDR) is considered by then deputy prime minister Somsavat Lengsavad as the most powerful in Lao PDR, and a worldwide model of social and environmental responsibility. As previous chair of the NT2…

Women are Ready for Roads

1 January 2016
After years of civil war, Cambodia was transforming into a vibrant market economy. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved funding to rehabilitate 500 kilometers of rural roads in seven provinces, one of the key pieces of infrastructure for Cambodia's mostly rural population to access much needed…

Donated for a Cause Land Transfers in DRILP

1 January 2016
The Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) used a community-driven approach to bring much needed road and community infrastructure to Nepal's hill and mountain districts. It likewise built capacity for centralized governance. Three years after the project's approval,…