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    Feminised recession: impact of the global financial crisis on women workers in the Philippines

    Oxfam, 2010
    This Oxfam research report looks at the impacts of the global economic crisis on Filipina women workers. It specifically addresses the ways in which the crisis affects the country’s female employment situation, income and/or working conditions in affected industries, family welfare, public spending for health and welfare, remittances, and microcredit availability.
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    Women paying the price: the impact of the global financial crisis on women in Southeast Asia

    Oxfam, 2010
    This report analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on women in five Southeast Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The research aims to provide critical recommendations to policy makers in the aforementioned countries.
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    The nature of Southeast Asian security challenges

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2005
    This paper argues that there is a convergence of security challenges among Southeast Asian countries, although differences in scope and approaches remain. The paper underscores that Southeast Asia is increasingly confronted with non-conventional security risks, emanating from international terrorism and organised crime, separatism, irregular migration and economic crisis.
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    Worldwide guide to trade unions and works councils

    Baker and McKenzie, 2010
    This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: collective bargaining unfair labour practices trade union employee protections rights employee collective representatives the labour regulatory regime
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    Micro-payment systems and their application to mobile networks

    infoDev, 2006
    This Paper summarises the first phase of an ongoing investigation into the application of mobile-enabled commerce (m-Commerce) in developing markets, through examining cases from the Philippines and South Africa. It aims to identify the opportunities provided to mobile networks in offering an m-Commerce service, as well as establishing the drivers of a successful implementation.
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    Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital

    The Lancet, 2008
    This paper reviews the associations between maternal and child undernutrition with human capital and risk of adult diseases in low-income and middle-income countries.
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    Community answers to climate chaos: getting climate justice through the UNFCCC

    Christian Aid, 2009
    This paper gives suggestions of how a successful deal can be made at the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009. It argues that during the conference world leaders must agree on a global response to climate change that will shield the world, its economy and its people from the threat of climate chaos.
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    Local voices, global choices: for successful disaster risk reduction (DRR). A collection of case studies about community-centre partnerships for DRR

    ProVention Consortium, 2009
    Local Voices Global Choices is an interagency initiative supported by Action aid, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Global Network of CSOs for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), International federation of the Red Cross, Oxfam, Practical Action, ProVention Consortium, Save the Children, and Tearfund.This report contains a number of case studies from around the world, which highlight what can be achiev
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.

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