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    Financial structure matters for economic growth

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    There is an unresolved debate over whether banks or markets are better at providing financial services and stimulating economic growth. Recent studies showing that neither bank-based nor market-based systems are particularly linked with growth, and they fail to take account of different national experiences.
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    Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in the education sector in Lao PDR

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2008
    The study highlights the impact of natural disasters on education in Lao. It analyses the integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) into the school curriculum and the present and future ways of constructing schools with a view to mitigating the disasters.
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    Rapid assessment report on governance indicators sources and use in the Philippines

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009
    This report presents the results of a survey involving policy/decision makers in Philippines to assess the extent to which governance indicators are being used and whether there are differences on how sources are applied at various levels of government.Specifically, it aims to rapidly assess the use of governance indicators in the following areas:
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    Conflict mediation in the water and sanitation sector: and how to reach solutions

    IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2008
    Water scarcity is just one problem that may lead to conflicts. Others include conflicts over water quality or privatisation of water supply services. This paper explores current thinking about conflict management in the water and sanitation sector and is written for individuals who want to understand more about the way to analyse, understand and help to manage conflicts.
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    Utility provision: contract design in the interest of the poor

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
    While access to basic utility services such as water, electricity and sanitation are essential for meeting internationally agreed development goals, many of these services remain unaffordable or unavailable for the world’s poorest people.
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    Pensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes.  A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.
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    Providing support to urban landless and homeless people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Urban Poor Funds are an institutional innovation. They support federations of savings groups formed by homeless people or residents of informal settlements. They are changing low-income households’ relations with government agencies, enabling legal solutions to housing problems, promoting cohesion, and providing access to public infrastructure and services.
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    Agricultural trade reform and poverty in the Asia-Pacific: a survey and some new results

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
    This working paper analyses the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper assesses the potential economic implications of agricultural trade reform under the Doha Development Agenda, with a special focus on that region.
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    Child mortality and injury in Asia

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2007
    This special Innocenti series on Child Injury, developed jointly by UNICEF and TASC, presents recently acquired evidence from surveys in five Asian countries: Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. The surveys are large in scale, similar to a census. In total over half a million households and nearly 2.5 million people were surveyed.
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    Case studies in enterprise development in post-conflict situations : Bosnia-Philippines-Afghanistan

    US Agency for International Development, 2008
    The research addresses three case studies, Vegafruit in Bosnia, growth with equity in Mindanao -Philippines and an IFC project in Afghanistan. Bosnia BGI case Study (for buyer-supplier and/or post-conflict) 'Vegafruit'.

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