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  Pulling rickshaws: a way out of poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In Bangladesh rickshaw pulling offers a time- limited opportunity for very poor people to improve their lives. Rickshaw pullers often get sick and as they get older this way of life becomes increasingly unsustainable. Their children receive only limited schooling and grow up with few occupational choices and opportunities to escape poverty.
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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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  Subsidy or self-respect? Community led total sanitation: an update on recent developments

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper is an updated version of an IDS working paper focusing on processes of Community Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS - an approach which facilitates a process of empowering local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without the support of any external hardware subsidy.
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  Better health care for children in Bangladesh: the story so far

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  In Bangladesh, many children die before they reach the age of five. Over half die from pneumonia, diarrhoea, malnutrition or measles.  In 1998, the government introduced the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy to improve child health. How effective has it been? 
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  WHO global study on domestic violence against women

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This report by the World Health Organization presents a global perspective on domestic violence against women. Covering ten countries including Bangladesh, Peru and Tanzania, the document finds that violence against women is still widespread with far reaching health consequences.The report covers violence against women in both partner and non-partner experiences.
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  Managing groundwater for dry season irrigation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Using groundwater for dry season irrigation has been the preferred strategy of the Bangladesh government for many years. For example, the privatisation of irrigation in the 1990s led to huge growth in the number of shallow tube-wells.
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  Addressing challenges in co-management information systems

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  There is an increasing shift towards the co-management of fisheries in many countries. Co-management creates new challenges for information collection and use, with a larger number of people involved in the process. This has prompted managers to reflect upon their new roles and reconsider their information requirements.
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  Rural non-farm economy in Bangladesh: a view from household surveys

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2004

  In Bangladesh, the Rural Non-Farm Economy (RNFE) accounts for a large proportion of rural employment and incomes and grows faster than agriculture with the development of the overall economy.
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  Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export Processing Zones, Report for discussion in the Tripartite Meeting of Export-Processing Zone-Operating Countries

  International Labour Organization, 1998

  It is now widely understood that women make up the majority of workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - areas dedicated to the mass production of export commodities such as garments and electrical goods in large factories. The labour and social concerns of female workers differ from those of men.
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  Poverty alleviation through agriculture and rural development in Bangladesh

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2004

  Rural development means improvement in the well being of the people living in rural space. If the livelihood improvement brings into its fold, people who lack capabilities to meet the basic needs, rural development would encompass poverty reduction.

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