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  Integrating ICTs into education: lessons learned: vol. 1

  UNESCO Bangkok ICT in Education, 2004

  This document, published by UNESCO Bangkok, outlines the lessons learned from attempts to integrate ICTs into schools in six Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.
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  Why do migrants return to poor countries? Evidence from Philippine migrants’ responses to exchange rate shocks

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  Economic models of migration behaviour have sought to explain why migrants might return to a poorer home country. Models suggest that some migrants are motivated by the desire to earn more over their lifetime in the host country, while others aim only to earn a ‘target’ amount before returning home.
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  Getting girls out of work and into school

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006

  In the Asia-Pacific region, girls’ labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015.This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls’ child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in plac
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  Linking farmers to markets

  Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006

  This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.
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  Company Codes of Conduct and Workers Rights: Report of an Education and Consultation Programme with Garment Workers in Asia

  2002

  Women Working Worldwide carried out an education and consultation programme with women workers in Asia, in July 1999 and December 2001. Eight organisations in seven different Asian countries undertook to adapt and print educational materials on codes of conduct for use in their own education programmes, as well as programmes of other nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and trade unions.
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  Empowering women migrant workers

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  This document presents information on UNIFEM’s Regional Programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia which seeks to empower women migrant workers from a gender and rights-based development perspective.
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  Shifting the boundary of the state: the privatization and regulation of water service in metropolitan Manila

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2006

  This online book explores the privatisation of the Manila Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS). It presents details on how the MWSS privatisation came about and how the regulation of water emerged and evolved.
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  Modeling choices for ecological solid waste management in suburban municipalities: user fees in Tuba, Philippines

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2005

  Using a participatory approach, this study looks at how a local government in the Philippines might organize and finance solid waste management to meet strict new national targets. Using a “choice modeling” approach, the researchers were able to see how people and companies value the attributes of various waste management services and how much they would be willing to pay for them.
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  The environmental costs of coastal reclamation in Metro Cebu, Philippines

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2005

  This study assesses the environmental cost of a large coastal reclamation project in the Philippines. It was undertaken to find out whether such projects generate an overall loss or gain for society as a whole. Such assessments are rarely made for projects of this type.
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  Valuing biodiversity conservation in a world heritage site: citizen’s non-use values for Tubbataha Reefs National Marine Park, Philippines

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 2005

  This study assesses the willingness of people in three cities in the Philippines to pay for the conservation of one of the country’s most important marine areas. The research was carried out to find alternative sources of finance for the Philippine’s marine conservation program.

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