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Energy Scarcity, Food Supply Chain Transformation, and Poverty Reduction in the Emerging Economies: the Case of Brazil, China, and India

The project in Brazil, China, and India aims to improve the understanding of the links among energy costs and use, the transformation of food supply chains including analysis of horticulture and dairy supply and technologies, and poverty alleviation to formulate policy pathways towards more optimal energy use.

Embedding poor people's voices in local governance: participation and political empowerment in India

Principal Investigator: Glyn Owain Williams. Lead Organisation: University of Sheffied

Religion and Childhood Death in India

Principal Investiagtor: Sonia Bhalotra. Lead Organisation: University of Bristol

Muslim children in India face lower mortality risks than Hindu children. This is surprising because Muslims have, on average, lower socio-economic status, higher fertility, shorter birth-spacing, lower autonomy amongst women, and are a minority group in India that, in principle, might live in areas that have poorer public provision. This project is motivated by this puzzle.

Enforcing Transparency: Enhancing Poor People's Access to Information in India

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act contains transparency mechanisms to ensure that resources and information reach the poor. This project assesses the Act to examine the degree that transparency mechanisms enhance poor people's access to information.

Biomedical and Health Experimentation in South Asia: Critical Perspectives on collaboration, governance and competition

An exploratory qualitative study of three South Asian countries to illuminate how social forms and organisations in health are created, managed and sustained, including key roles in the development of medicine and health services knowledge.

Transforming livelihoods: work, migration and poverty in the Tiruppur garment cluster, India

Principal Investigator: Geert Neve. Lead Organisation: University of Sussex (School of Global Studies)

Co-Investigator: Grace Margaret Carswell (University of Sussex)

Labour conditions and the working poor in China and India

This research project examines labour conditions at firm level in Shanghai and Delhi, focusing on the garment and construction sectors and investigating how the working poor in these sectors fared from the global recession to date.

Socio-economic inequalities and the MDGs: building evidence to support equitable improvement in maternal and newborn health in Asia & Africa

Principal Investigation: Antonia Jannetje (Tanja) Houweling. Lead Organisation: University College London

Co-investiagtors: Eddy Van Doorslaer; David Osrin; Anthony Costello; Neena Shah More; Kishwar Azad; Naomi Margaret Saville; Sonia Odette Lewycka; Prasanta Kishore Tripathy; Dharma Sharna Manandhar; Joanna Lynn Morrison; Glyn Alcock

The intra-household allocation of resources: cross-cultural tests, methodological innovations and policy implications

Principal Investigator: Alistair Munro. Lead Organisation: Royal Holloway, University of London

Co-investigators: Vegard Iversen; Nitya Rao; Arjan Verschoor; Cecile Jackson; Bereket Kebede

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Human development and poverty reduction in developing countries

Researchers will study human development in its many dimensions from early infanthood throughout childhood as well as the policies implemented to target these dimensions to identify mechanisms that underlie the accumulation of human capital.

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