The terms ‘livelihoods', ‘poverty' and ‘development' have different meanings in different societies and people. Development implies a better quality of life and enahancement of opportunities, and better access to assets and services to marginal communities: particularly the Adivasis, women...

Policy initiatives that are being initiated by the State and different agencies for improving the life situation of the marginalised sections of Indian society are generally not showing the expected outcomes. There has also been a sizable body of work, which explains the conditions of the...

This study investigated the impact of Self-help projects on the socio-economic development of Mkpat-Enin Local Government of Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria. Survey design method was adopted in the study in which fifty-one physical socio-economic development variables were collected from all the...