ICT and Poverty Reduction

A Project to Reduce Poverty through Access to ICTs in Rural Areas of China

 

Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture

 

Rickshaws connect India's poor

 

ICTs and Poverty: A Literature Review

In 1996, Wresch wrote that “the poor are excluded from much of the world’s information and no one has even begun to outline a solution to the problem” (1996:58). This literature review will reveal whether his sentiments are still true today. In his view, one of the biggest ironies of the information age is that the rich get their information almost free, while the poor have to pay dearly for it, in the case for instance of the price poor people have to pay to make a simple telephone call. The notion of exclusion is thus an important consideration in some of the literature in this review.

Making Globalisation Work for the Poor

 

RFI: Impact of ICT on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

 

Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Government Policies and Strategies on ICT for Rural Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific Region

 

Digital Dividends for the Poor

 

ICT and Poverty Reduction in Rural India

 

Can ICT Applications Contribute to Poverty Reduction? Lessons from Rural India

 

Toward e-Development in Asia and the Pacific

 

Up-scaling pro-poor ICT policies and practices

 

ICT Policies for Poverty Alleviation - Revisited

 

i4d Hails UNESCO's Efforts to Use ICT for Poverty Reduction

 

ICT for Poverty Reduction in Asia

 

Integrating ICTs in Development Programmes

 

Using the Post Office to deliver social protection to the Indian poor

 

List of Completed PRSPs

The IMF site has direct links to all the completed PRSPs.

ICT in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers as of January 2003. OECD.

OECD's study on ICT related content in PRSPs.

Examples of ICT in National Plans as of January 2003. OECD.

Excerpts of ICT Related Content from PRSPs in the Asia Pacific Region

The document includes excerpts of ICT related content from 8 PRSPs in the Asia Pacific Region: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Vietnam. ICT related content was extracted from the search terms of "ICT" "telecommunication" "communication" and "information."