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    Conversations with women on leadership and social transformation

    2004
    This paper compiles interviews with 18 women community leaders, clarifying thier visions, perspectives on coalition building and leadership, and their fundamental questions on how to challenge power and accountability. In their own words, these women talk about leadership and particularly women’s practice of that leadership for social change.
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    Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

    World Bank, 2004
    This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.
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    Fair play at the Olympics? Respecting workers’ rights in the sportswear industry

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    If labour exploitation were an Olympic sport, sportswear multinationals would win plenty of medals. As the 2004 Athens Olympics approaches, sportswear companies are spending billions of dollars in associating their products with the event. The expansion of international trade in sportswear has drawn millions of people – mainly women – into employment.
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    Guns but no bread: how arms exporters are failing developing countries

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    It is a commonly held belief that developing countries rely primarily on small arms – which, being relatively cheap, should not be a huge financial burden to the country.  But in fact, the countries of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East own 51% of the world’s heavy weapons and in 2002 they imported two thirds of all arms deliveries worldwide, at a value of nearly US$ 17 billion.
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    Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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    Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations?: evaluating the evidence from China

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005
    The study examines the whether pollution-intensive industries from rich countries relocate to poor countries with weaker environmental standards.
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    Beyond remittances: the role of diaspora in poverty reduction in their countries of origin

    Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2004
    This paper analyses the impact of established Diaspora on the reduction of poverty, and identifies ways in which policy interventions, especially from donors of official development assistance, might strengthen that impact.This paper specifically: examines the role of Diaspora in poverty reduction through four main areas of focus: policy and practice towards Diaspora on the part
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    Drought and farmers’ coping strategies in poverty-afflicted rural China

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004
    This paper explores the nature of drought risks in southern China through estimating the cost of drought and gaining some insight into farmers’ coping strategies.
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    Men first: inheritance rights and women in rural China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    For women in rural China, inheritance rights are often limited by traditional customs which give greater benefits to men. Although this is being challenged by new laws that recognise women’s legal rights, increased access for women to jobs and education, there is a big gap between legislation and reality.
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    Globalisation and mental health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Globalisation affects the way people live and work.  It is hardly surprising, then, that globalisation and its related social and economic changes affect the mental health of individuals and countries.

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