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  Using microfinance to prevent debt bondage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Bonded labour is a major human rights challenge in South-East Asia. Millions of poor people are forced to work for little or no wage, as they struggle in vain to repay loans from their employers. The provision of microfinance is emerging as a key strategy, given that bondage generally results from the need for credit.
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  Understanding the relationship between poverty and water security

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Poverty and water are closely linked in many countries. Access to water resources and services are a key factor in achieving water security for poor people. Effective water management policies are therefore essential for sustainable development.
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  Helping children survive: assessing health prevention coverage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In most low-income countries various health interventions are put into action simultaneously with the aim of improving children’s survival rates. However, these interventions do not tend to reach all children and the number of interventions per child is often not adequate.
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  Rural–urban marketing linkages: an infrastructure identification and survey guide

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  Food supply and distribution systems in most developing countries are undergoing major changes following rapid urban population growth. This guide offers a simple planning methodology and framework to assist policy makers, non-government organisations and farmer groups to respond to these changes and ensure that rural producers have better access to markets for their products.
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  Bangladesh: minorities increasingly at risk of displacement

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2006

  This report looks at the trends and statistics of internal displacement in Bangladesh as a result of civil war and persecution of religious minorities.
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  Selected papers on the social aspects of arsenic and arsenic mitigation in Bangladesh

  Arsenic Policy Support Unit, 2006

  This document is a collection of three articles addressing the arsenic crisis in Bangladesh. Arsenic not only poses serious health risks for communities affected, but also has severe social consequences. The document points out that the social implications of the arsenic crisis has not received as much attention as the technical and health aspects.
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  Floodplain management in Bangladesh: the role of formal and informal institutions

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Several formal institutions play a role in managing the natural resources in Bangladesh’s floodplains. These include governmental departments and non-governmental organisations. However, informal social institutions also have a strong influence over local uses of natural resources. Policymakers must consider the influence of these informal institutions.
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  Social protection index to help improve poverty reduction programmes

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Policymakers and donors are increasingly viewing social protection as an important tool for poverty reduction to achieve the Millennium Goals by 2015.  However, the discussion so far has focused on definitions and objectives of social protection. Very little information is available on the quantitative aspects beyond broad estimates of its costs.
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  Creating a more efficient financial system : challenges for Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2006

  Bangladesh has embarked on a path to reform its financial system, most prominently by privatising its government-owned banks, the Nationalised Commercial Banks (NCBs).
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  Slash and burn agriculture in Bangladesh: how to encourage alternatives

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, a distorted form of slash and burn agriculture, characterised by short rotation, has led to serious degradation of land and forests. Indigenous people have been blamed for the problem. However, this assessment ignores historical reasons for this type of farming and the current obstacles to adopting more sustainable land use practices.

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