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Corporate responsibility
- Gender and asset ownership: a guide to collecting individual-level data
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World Bank
, 2008)
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Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and households, including a secure place to live, the means of a livelihood, protection d...
- Carbon capture and storage in developing countries: a perspective on barriers to deployment
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N. Kulichenko (ed);E. Ereira (ed)
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World Bank
, 2011)
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Fossil fuels remain a vast energy resource, are widely distributed around the world, and remain heavily relied upon for energy generation. Reducing local pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases (G...
- Participatory scenario development approaches for identifying pro-poor adaptation options
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L. Bizikova (ed);S. Boardley (ed);S. Mead (ed)
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World Bank
, 2010)
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Participatory scenario development (PSD) is a process that involves the participation of stakeholders to explore the future in a creative and policy-relevant way. The International Institute for Susta...
- Policy brief: opportunities and challenges for climate-smart agriculture in Africa
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World Bank
, 2011)
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Ensuring food security under a changing climate is a major challenges to African countries because their agriculture is so highly vulnerable. To attain poverty alleviation and food security goals, the...
- Getting health workers to rural areas: innovative analytic work to inform policy making
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Marko Vujcic;Marco Alfano;Bukhuti Shengelia
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World Bank
, 2010)
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Globally, decision makers face serious challenges in attracting health workers to rural areas. According to the authors, while decision makers have access to a wide range of policy options, the effect...
- Empowering Women: The effect of women’s decision making power on reproductive health services uptake. Evidence from Pakistan
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X Hou;N Ma
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World Bank
, 2011)
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What correlations are there between women’s autonomy and their uptake of reproductive health services in Pakistan? This policy research working paper suggests that women’s decision making ...
- Impacts of international migration and remittances on child outcomes and labour supply in Indonesia: How does gender matter?
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T Nguyen;R Purnamasari
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World Bank
, 2011)
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This policy research working paper empirically investigates rising international migration and remittances in Indonesia. It particularly examines the ways in which female migration (approximately 80% ...
- Life expectancy at birth, total (years)
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World Bank
, 2011)
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Country listing of life expectancy. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the sam...
- World Bank eAtlas of global development
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World Bank
, 2011)
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The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organised indicators for over 200 countries, letting you visualise and compare progress on the most important dev...
- Estudio Evaluativo Participativo de Género
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B Fernández Montenegro;M A Trigoso Barentzen;E Villanueva Díaz
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World Bank
, 1998)
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This document evaluates the progress of gender work in the agrarian sector in Peru. It mainly focuses on a project called PRONAMACHCS (Proyecto Nacional de Manejo de Cuencas y Conservación de S...
