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  UNICEF tsunami relief study: the views of affected children on their lives and the tsunami relief effort

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This study was conducted to find out what children are thinking, one year on from the tsunami in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.
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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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  Women, political parties and social movements in South Asia

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This UNRISD occasional paper - addressing issues regarding women, parties and movements in South Asia - was written for the preparation of the report, ‘Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world’.
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  An overview of ICT policies and e-strategies of select Asian economies

  Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2004

  This overview is designed to guide policy makers in incorporating ICT policies and strategies into their development agendas.
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  Indo-Sri Lanka trade in services: FTA II and beyond

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2004

  Bilateral trade in services between India and Sri Lanka has shown an increase. While Sri Lanka has concentrated on the export of traditional services such as transshipment services and tourism, India has focused on export of both traditional and knowledge-based services.
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  The tsunami’s impact on women

  Oxfam, 2005

  This briefing looks at the impact of the tsunami in Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka, and in particular at how it has affected women. It seeks to promote debate and awareness of the issues and to ensure that the recovery phase of the relief effort integrates the problems raised.
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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.
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  Recovery from the tsunami disaster: poverty reduction and sustainable development through microfinance

  Grameen Foundation USA, 2005

  This paper reports the findings of a team of specialists from the Grameen Foundation USA, deployed in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami to assess conditions facing the poor and the effects of the disaster on the provision of microfinance.
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  The politics of service delivery reform

  Development and Change Journal, 2004

  This article, published in Development and Change, identifies the leaders, supporters and resisters of public service reform, drawing principally on research from Ghana, Zimbabwe, India and Sri Lanka. It finds that reform was often constrained by a lack of political commitment and by the interests embedded in existing organisational arrangements.
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  Ending legalised violence against children: report for South Asia Regional Consultation

  Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2005

  This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment of children in South Asia.The report shows that children in eight countries in the South Asia region are not fully protected under assault laws, despite the clear international human rights standard that children should be protected equally with adults.

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