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    Pro-Poor Value Chain Development for High ValueProducts in Mountain Regions: Indian Bay Leaf

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    Production of high value products and services can help reduce poverty in mountain regions. Value chains can be used to describe the activities and benefits involved in bringing such a product from the producer to the market, and analysed to identify improvements along the chain which, if addressed, yield the highest positive outcome for small producers, traders, and processors.
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    Generating capacity planning criteria determination for developing countries: case study of Nepal

    IEE Proceedings Communications, 1999
    Reliability is virtually taken for granted in most developed countries, This is not the case in developing countries where many basic development projects compete for the available scarce resources. Many electric power projects are cancelled or postponed owing to a lack of resources, environmental problems and other social concerns.
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    My rights, my voice annual progress report 2012

    Oxfam, 2013
    My Rights, My Voice (MRMV) is an innovative three-year global programme, engaging marginalised children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries.
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    Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya

    ActionAid International, 2013
    Collecting data on all women’s work, both paid and unpaid, is critical to improving the design of social policies and the allocation of resources to address poverty and inequality. This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda.
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    Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Nepal

    Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2012
    Nepal has made good progress against most socio-economic indicators in the aftermath of armed conflict (1996-2006), and there has been a decline in material poverty. At the same time, significant policy challenges remain and need to be addressed through well-designed and targeted interventions.This paper addresses these issues presenting the following findings:
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    Caste, Land and Labor Market Imperfections, and Land Productivity in Rural Nepal

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    This paper provides new evidence on the caste-related land productivity differential and its explanations in rural Nepal using household plot panel data. Low-caste households are found to have significantly higher land productivity on their owner-operated plots as compared to high-caste households.
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    Livestock and Land Share Contracts in a Hindu Society

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
    This paper examines factors related to the existence of a livestock rental market in western Nepal and assesses whether this is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market participation. This study brings new empirical evidence of livestock rental market against the established view that such market does not exist due to moral hazard.
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    Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel
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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    Projects for the poor and excluded: lessons from Community Development Programme in Nepal

    Rural Reconstruction Nepal, 2009
    Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, recently witnessed a decade-long Maoist insurgency. Public service delivery became irregular, infrastructure fell into disarray and poor people’s livelihoods were disrupted.

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