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  China’s overseas professionals facilitate knowledge exchange

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Since the end of the 1970s, nearly 300,000 professionals have migrated permanently from the People’s Republic of China. Many were students sent overseas by the Chinese government to international universities who then never returned. However, these migrants have helped their country through the knowledge exchanged between China and rest of the world.
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  The benefits of working together: small and medium forest enterprises

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Small and medium enterprises account for a huge proportion of the businesses and jobs in the world’s forests. These enterprises can be easy for poor people to set up, but without support, the challenges of being small threaten their survival. The best way forward is usually finding a common cause and working together as an association.
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  First hand knowledge: voices across the Mekong: community action against trafficking of children and women

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This paper is an account of the stories of children and women, and the communities to which they belong, who explain their engagement in a program designed to help prevent trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation. The accounts are drawn from communities in the five participating countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and China.
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  Anti-human trafficking program in Vietnam: trafficking in women and children from Vietnam to China: legal framework and government responses

  Human Trafficking, 2005

  As with many of its neighbours, human trafficking is a growing problem in Vietnam and China. This paper contributes to the current debate on development and humanitarian policy issues related to human trafficking. The study identifies the legal framework against human trafficking in Vietnam and China, and also explores governmental intervention on the issue in both countries.
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  Demographic transition in Asia and its consequences

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  There have been significant changes to the populations of Asian countries over the last five decades; these have implications for education provision, social security and the environment. The speed and the current phase of the transition vary greatly between and also within countries.
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  Internal migration, poverty and development in Asia including the excluded through partnerships and improved governance

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  This paper explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries – China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia – and looks at ways in which greatest benefit could be derived from internal migration. Although internal migration is by no means a new phenomenon, it has increased rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s and is continuing
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  The Chinese experience of hospital price regulation

  Health Policy and Planning, 2000

  This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, analyses the effects of the regulation of hospital fees in China. It examines the costs and fees charged for a range of hospital services, and reports that on average, only 50 per cent of costs were recovered through fees.
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  Factsheet: tobacco in the developing world

  Action on Smoking and Health, 2004

  This fact sheet, published by Action on Smoking and Health, examines the prevalence and impacts of tobacco smoking in developing countries. It reports that, while tobacco consumption is falling in most high-income countries, it is increasing in developing countries at around 1.7 per cent per year.
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  Evaluation of the NHO Programme in China

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This report is an evaluation of the NHO Programme in China. This programme supports the further development of democratic institutions within Chinese working life, through development of organisations and businesses within a developing tripartite system.Evaluation results include:knowledge of tripartism is good.
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  Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project

  Siyanda, 2003

  This report analyses the extent to which the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project has effectively mainstreamed gender in its work. It argues that overall the China-UK project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.

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