Our Money, Our Movement

Alana Albee, Nandasiri Gamage

Credit and savings mechanisms are becoming a powerful tool in development, but many initiatives are only now aiming for the ownership of these mechanisms to be in the hands of the borrowers themselves. Our Money, Our Movement describes how this goal has already been reached by the Women's Credit Uni...

Packaging

Packaging can perform three functions: it acts as a container; it helps to protect against damage and spoilage; and it can communicate information about the contents. Packaging discusses these functions in detail and looks at traditional and mechanized packaging systems for use by small-scale produc...

Pickles of Bangladesh

Shaheda Azami, Mike Battcock

This booklet was the result of a workshop run by the Ahsania Mission. The objective of the workshop was to produce adult literacy booklets that covered practical subjects. This booklet covers how to set up a small business making pickles and drew on the work of Intermediate Technology Bangladesh.

Sustainability of Water and Sanitation Systems

John Pickford

This book comprises forty papers from the 21st WEDC conference, held in Kampala in 1995, on the theme of sustainability of water and sanitation systems. Developing countries experience special difficulties in maintaining systems in full working order, so maintenance is a recurring topic. Other wide-...

Trade and the Poor

John Madeley

The new second edition updates this popular book, and provides new chapters on alternative trading systems, and international trading organizations such as GATT and the World Trade Organization. Trade and the Poor examines North-South trade in commodities, services and tourism; transnational corpora...

The Trade Trap

Belinda Coote

This work explains how countries that depend on the export of primary commodities, like coffee or cotton, are caught in a trap: the more they produce the lower the price falls on the international market. If they try to add value to their commodities by processing them, they run into tariff barriers...

Trading the Silver Seed

David Lewis, Geoffrey Wood, Rick Gregory

This is the first study of social, economic and technical aspects of aquaculture in Bangladesh. The authors analyse rural society through the trading activities necessary in aquaculture. These insights have practical implications and this book shows how it is possible to build on existing relationsh...

The Urban Opportunity

Nicolas Hall, Robert Hart, Diana Mitlin

It is now being recognised among development professionals that urban poverty is massive and growing and that rural development initiatives are no longer relevant in slowing rural to urban migration as growth has its own internal dynamic stemming from natural population increase. This book is an imp...

Water Supply

Vijita Fernando

The goals of this book are to promote understanding of water supply technologies and water supply management to enable women to make informed choices. The book also contains information on how to assess the suitability of different water supply options and how to find financial and technical assista...

Women, Employment and Exclusion

Caroline Sweetman

Considering various types of finance schemes, this text compares the effectiveness of various approaches in aiding poverty reduction. The provision of credit and other financial services has become increasingly seen as the answer to the problem facing poor people. Microfinance interventions have the...