Poverty Analysis and Social Safety Net: As part of the United States Government’s contribution to the global poverty reduction program envisioned in the Millennium Development Goals, and advanced at successive World Summits on Social Development, USAID sponsors programs and activities designed to help poor people improve and protect their assets. It also works to identify policy interventions that will foster an environment where the poor can convert their assets to capital with minimum risk.
USAID sponsors research on pro-poor economic growth and the impact of informal economies on poor people:
Pro-poor economic growth research examines the complex relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. The findings of this research will enlighten the public discourse on poverty, deepening the dialogue between government and civil society.
The work of leading researchers who are examining the effects of informal economies on the poor enables assessments of their prospects for escaping poverty. These researchers’ findings make a compelling case for an inclusive property system that recognizes and protects the assets of the poor.
Other work in this area explores the roles of social safety nets in the context of protecting basic livelihoods through risk management. Of particular interest are social safety nets comprised of public interventions that empower individuals, firms, households and communities to build and protect assets through risk management strategies. Viable social safety nets can reduce transitory poverty, prevent poor people from falling into deeper poverty and provide a foundation for them to escape poverty.
USAID sponsors research on pro-poor economic growth and the impact of informal economies on poor people:
Pro-poor economic growth research examines the complex relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. The findings of this research will enlighten the public discourse on poverty, deepening the dialogue between government and civil society.
The work of leading researchers who are examining the effects of informal economies on the poor enables assessments of their prospects for escaping poverty. These researchers’ findings make a compelling case for an inclusive property system that recognizes and protects the assets of the poor.
Other work in this area explores the roles of social safety nets in the context of protecting basic livelihoods through risk management. Of particular interest are social safety nets comprised of public interventions that empower individuals, firms, households and communities to build and protect assets through risk management strategies. Viable social safety nets can reduce transitory poverty, prevent poor people from falling into deeper poverty and provide a foundation for them to escape poverty.
Courtesy: Carmen Villegas Caballero
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Fatimid Heritage Foundation supports heritage, education and peace activities to enhance knowledge, interfaith harmony and global pluralism. The FATIMID works to promote a more secure, equitable and prosperous world in conformity with the vision of His Highness Aga Khan. It is an expression of love and devotion Ismaili Muslims have for Aga Khan Fatimid Imam Caliph, 49th direct lineal descendant of Prophet Muhammad through his cousin and son-in-law, Aly, the first Imam-Caliph, and his wife Fatima, the Prophet's daughter. Aga Khan is the rope of love, wisdom and unity among interpretations of the Faith, and also bridge of confidence between West and Muslims. This year, the world is celebrating Golden Jubilee of the Imamat Caliphate of His Highness the Aga Khan. Year 2007 is also the Diamond Jubilee of the creation of Pakistan.Geneva Peace Development Centre (Geneva Peace) and Mountain Girls Education Development Program (MGEDP) are other development initiatives of The FATIMID. Geneva Peace is an international non-profit initiative working to promote theological and political consensus between West and Muslims, so as to enhance friendship and peace globally. The name is derived of admiration for Geneva, the city of 44 Nobel Prizes. A centre of excellence and decision-making in multiple domains, Geneva has become the principal forum of world negotiation, and a natural home to intense diplomatic and networking activity, due to the numerous International Organizations and NGOs located in the Lake Geneva area. MGEDP is a non-profit educational initiative co-founded by Anwar Merchant, Nazlin Anwar, Aziz and Shirin. Intellectual gender leadership of exceptional merit is the best motivation for future development of communities, and that mountain regions are too engulfed by poverty and hazards to develop their talented young girls as community leaders, led the family to found proposal for a network of catalytic centres of educational excellence around the mountain regions, known as the Mountain Girls Academies.The FATIMID is a Cooperating Organization with Development Gateway. Join DG communities here.
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