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    Private education is good for the poor: a study of private schools serving the poor in low-income countries

    CATO Institute, Washington, 2005
    Can private education help meet the educational needs of poor children in low-income countries? Many observers believe that the private sector has little to offer in terms of reaching the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of "education for all" by 2015.
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    Using community conservation to achieve the MDGs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In many places, globalisation, inappropriate policies and malpractices in government and non-government organisations have resulted in the degradation of many ecosystems. Official conservation policies are often failing to stop this decline. Can community-based conservation efforts achieve better results?
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    Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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    Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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    Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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    Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

    Synergy Project, USAID, 2003
    This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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    Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002
    This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.
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    Throwing away the primer: the 'real literacies' approach to adult literacy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What do we mean by 'illiterate'? Are we being misled by UNESCO rhetoric that literacy is the key to development? What happens when we herd into class individuals who may have nothing in common except for the fact they have been labelled 'illiterate'?
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    The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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    Simply effective - magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia in pregnancy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia may kill more than 50 000 pregnant women each year, mostly in developing regions. A study in 33 countries, co-ordinated by the Oxford Institute of Health Sciences, shows that magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia and maternal death. Policy-makers should improve the availability of this cheap drug in developing countries, the researchers conclude.

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