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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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  Still clean - do hygiene practices continue after promotion programmes end?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  What happens after a hygiene promotion programme ends?  Surprisingly little research has been done to find out whether such programmes have lasting effects.  This study investigated the question in six developing countries and found that changes to behaviour do last.
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  Creating voice and carving space

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2004

  This book is based upon the premise that while politics and power play a central role in decisions governing the lives of many women in developing countries, international development agencies supporting the good governance agenda in the 1990s largely failed to acknowledge this in their approaches.
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  Can urban housing regulations be pro-poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Bureaucracy is a significant barrier to providing affordable shelter. Slums are often the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. High standards, restrictive regulations and complex procedures force countless people into informal settlements. What can be done to ensure that formal planning systems become more transparent and start to work on behalf of the poor?
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  Textile and clothing trade rules prevent poverty alleviation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Textiles and clothing exports from developing countries continue to undermine poverty alleviation despite current changes to trade rules. Since 1974, rich countries have used the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas to restrict entry of these goods to their markets.
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  Economics of pensions and social security in South Asia: special focus on India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

  South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2003

  This study proposes to identify the modalities of a comprehensive pension and social security scheme for the elderly population in South Asia, from the experience of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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  Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.
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  Children’s participation and policy change in South Asia

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This report looks how children can successfully influence policy relating to childhood poverty.
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  Education for all: teacher demand and supply in South Asia

  Education International, 2003

  This working paper examines the place of teachers in the primary education systems of Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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  Tracking gender equity under economic reforms: continuity and change in South Asia

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This book develops a new framework for gender analysis by demonstrating the importance of identifying the context of such analysis, and by highlighting the necessity of differentiating ‘gender’ per se from its various ‘indicators’.

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