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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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  Knowledge, power and development agendas: NGOs north and south

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  ‘Development’ NGOs form an international community of talk. How do ideas, information and knowledge move within this vast and diverse ‘knowledge economy’? How can southern NGOs have more of a voice in determining the work they actually do? How can they get more of their ideas onto the international development agenda?
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  Decentralisation: not necessarily always a good thing?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Decentralisation is in vogue and not just in multi-party democracies. Military dictatorships, one-party states and even authoritarian monarchies have signed up. Amidst this enthusiasm, is there empirical evidence that decentralised regimes are more likely to be pro-poor, responsive and transparent? Have decentralisation and democratisation been naively conflated?
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  Gender equality in sector wide approaches: a reference guide

  OECD Development Centre, 2002

  This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture.It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach:contributes to overall sustainability and effectivenessis fully responsive to the needs and interests of both women and men and helps to promote gender equalityThe case studies identif
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  The body [chapter in ‘Voices of the poor: crying out for change’]

  World Bank, 2000

  While it is recognised that poverty and poor health are closely linked, it is rare that the poor have the opportunity to voice their own experiences with respect to health issues. Poor people from across the world described their own health experiences in the World Bank's 'Voices of the Poor', a multi-country study of poor people's experiences of poverty.
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  Food safety in crop post harvest systems

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2001

  This report compiles presentations and reports from a Crop Post Harvest Programme (CPHP) workshop on food safety post harvest.
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  Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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  Responsible business practice: lessons from Ghana, India and Trinidad & Tobago

  Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, UK, 2003

  This report attempts to provide a complete overview of socially responsible business practice in Ghana, India and Trinidad and Tobago and how each sector views the subject.The paper provides and overview of socially responsible business practice (SRBP) in each of the three countries and draws out the following factors that every sector faces in each country:there is a lack of informatio
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  Telecentres: case studies and key issues

  Commonwealth of Learning, 2001

  This e-book provides provides a global overview of ICTs and telecentres, examining experiences to date and considering new directions and possibilities for telecentre development.Case study chapters detail telecentres' histories, affiliates, functions, costs and funding, accommodation, management and staffing, training provision, publicity, access, technologies, research and evaluation and the

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