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  Midwives assisting homebirths face opposition in rural Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Why is it that in Bangladesh many women still die during child labour, and what difference could training of midwives make for homebirths? In Bangladesh, 91 percent of births still take place at home and only 13 percent are assisted by a doctor or midwife.
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  Vulnerability to HIV infection among sex worker and non-sex worker female injecting drug users in Dhaka, Bangladesh: evidence from the baseline survey of a cohort study

  Harm Reduction Journal, 2007

  This study, published in the Journal of Harm Reduction, examines the risks and vulnerability to HIV of female injecting drug users (IDU) in Bangladesh. The study looked at 130 female IDUs, of which 82 were sex workers, in three cities in the Dhaka region. Findings show that none had HIV but more sex workers had lifetime syphilis than non-sex workers.
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  Human rights and dignity of Dalit women: report of the conference in the Hague, 20-25 November 2006

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2006

  This report summarises the proceedings and the outcomes the 1st Conference on the Rights of Dalit Women held in The Hague, Netherlands.
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  Sexuality and Rights Workshop: Meeting Summary

  2007

  This paper documents the presentations given at a Sexuality Rights Workshop in Bangladesh in January 2007. The presentations drew on a diverse range of ongoing research and projects working with urban and rural populations in Bangladesh on sexual and reproductive health and gender.
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  Poverty in time: exploring poverty dynamics from life history interviews in Bangladesh

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  Renewed interest in understanding the dynamics of poverty has prompted the development of combined qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis. More participatory techniques have also added to the multi-dimensional concept of poverty.
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  Results of evaluation: Food for Schooling (FFS) in Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This report evaluates a Food for Schooling (FFS) programme in Bangladesh.
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  Social capital and economic well-being

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006

  Is economic well-being related to one's social networks? These two papers explore the links between social capital and well being among households in rural Bangladesh.The first paper, entitled "Does it pay to be social?" investigates the effect of informal and formal social capital on economic well-being.
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  The why and how of understanding 'subjective' wellbeing: exploratory work by the WeD group in four developing countries

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  Wellbeing is a dynamic concept that incorporates the material, relational, and cognitive dimensions of people's lives.
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  Seeing the light: adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change.
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  Educational equity and public policy: comparing results from 16 countries

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007

  The right to education has been recognised by the international community for the last half century and has led to increasing interest in the equity of countries’ education systems.

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