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    Bridging security and development:People-centred approaches needed

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Strategies for securing peace that have worked in Afghanistan are unlikely to work in Iraq or Somalia. Yet, interventions by international organisations and countries in crisis areas continue to follow the same formula: first condemnation, then sanctions, then military action.
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    Retaining Legitimacy in Fragile States

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Globalisation, liberalisation, and the withdrawal of external support from Cold War alliances have placed enormous strains on some developing countries - best described as 'fragile states'. These are states with high levels of poverty and inequality and low levels of state capacity.
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    Understanding bonded child labour in Asia: an introduction to the nature of the problem and how to address it

    Child Workers in Asia, 2007
    This document presents an overview of bonded child labour in South and Southeast Asia, and provides information on legal instruments and approaches that organisations might use to fight it.
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    Urban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

    Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006
    This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".
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    Can transgenic seeds repeat the success of the ‘Green Revolution’?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    New technology and crop varieties reduced poverty in much of Asia and Latin America, and some parts of Africa, during the Green Revolution. However, from 1985 this progress slowed. Can new research into transgenic crops revive poverty reduction through agricultural technology?
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    Place, social protection and migration in Bangladesh: a Londoni village in Biswanath

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
    What is the relationship between migration, poverty and social protection in Bangladesh? This paper, which is based on recent research in Biswanath, Sylhet (in Bangladesh) examines generalised notions of ‘social protection’ common to development discourse. The context is a ‘Londoni’ village (i.e. a village with high levels of transnational migration to the UK).
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    Health sector reforms: what influences health worker responses?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In the past 20 years, a number of developing country governments have attempted to reform their health sectors in order to improve performance. These reforms have often failed to include the participation of the health workforce in planning and decision-making. How do these have unintended effects on health?
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    Floating cultivation in Bangladesh – a sustainable model for floodplains

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    There are many positive rural development initiatives in Bangladesh. Many communities are using traditional methods to make a living without damaging the environment. One of these methods involves cultivating crops in floodplains.
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    Migration and inequality: policy implications

    2006
    Does migration help to reduce inequality and if so, what policies can help to enhance this effect? Migration represents an important livelihood diversification strategy for many in the world’s poorest nations, and may be a way for poor people to gain better access to resources. This briefing paper examines the effects migration has on inequality.
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    Ending violence against women: programming for prevention, protection and care

    United Nations Population Fund, 2006
    Violence against women manifests itself in different ways in different societies - from psychological abuse and physical harm to early marriage and ritual slavery - and the pathways to success vary.

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