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    Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

    World Rainforest Movement, 2003
    This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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    Politics and Power: A Gendered Perspective from South Asia

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2003
    This paper produced for Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)'s Political Restructuring and Social Transformation Programme outlines the spaces, strategies and contradictions arising from women's political involvement in South Asia.
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    Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002
    This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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    Trade Intensification in Asia Economies: What it Means to Women's Work

    Women and Gender Institute, 2002
    This is the first in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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    Tackling the poverty-trafficking link: can the sexual abuse of children be ended?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The child sex trade is a multibillion-dollar industry. Girls and boys are bought and sold like commodities and sexually exploited for commercial gain. What is the international community doing to end this inhumane trade? Can it succeed?
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    Learning in the field: can agriculture help in rural primary education?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can agriculture help improve rural primary schooling in developing countries? Universal access to primary education is a sought-after goal in most developing countries as it offers a wide range of benefits. Yet many countries face problems such as low participation, high drop-out rates and under-education of pupils, especially in rural areas.
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    Lost in space: Locating the chronically poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People living in certain areas are often vulnerable to similar risks, increasing their chance of becoming chronically poor. At the same time, in some poor areas not everyone is poor, and not everyone who is poor will remain so for long. Where do ‘pockets of poverty’ exist and why? Under what conditions can they become ‘poverty traps’?
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    Exploring the globalisation-poverty linkage: findings from South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does globalisation lead to higher growth rates and reduction in absolute poverty? How should economists disentangle and quantify the impact of globalisation shocks from other influences? How can we judge whether those with very little connectedness to the world economy are being affected by globalisation?
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    Asia – success or failure? Provident funds governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many Asian countries rely on provident funds to finance retirement. Globalisation, rapid ageing, a need for fiscal consolidation and more individualistic preferences have increased the significance of provident funds, but substantive reforms in their governance are needed to realise their full potential.
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    Political Economy of Growth and Reforms in South Asia

    Global Development Network, 2000
    This paper attempts to examine the political economy behind the economic policies in South Asia and to draw lessons from them. Specific reform measures that India and Sri Lanka undertook are analysed and the political economy rationale of such policies are examined.The political history and economic performance of South Asian countries are first briefly described.

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