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  Looking for a quick fix: how weak social auditing is keeping workers in sweatshops

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2005

  This report argues that social audits as they are currently carried out often fail to deliver as a tool for checking working conditions in facilities producing garments and sports shoes.
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  Educating the world’s children: patterns of growth and inequality

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005

  This study employs multiple sources of data and innovative analytic tools to project when 70 poor countries, given current and historical trends, are likely to achieve the goal of universal primary education.
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  Maintaining momentum to 2015?: an impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2005

  This World Bank report examines the impacts of donor-supported programmes for maternal and child health, nutrition, and fertility in Bangladesh. It reports that under-five mortality has been reduced substantially since the 1990s, but malnutrition remains high. The gap between rich and poor in child mortality is also narrowing.
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  Contradicting commitments: how the achievement of Education For All is being undermined by the International Monetary Fund

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This paper intends to demonstrate the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) role in constraining countries from increasing public expenditure in education to meet the Education For All (EFA) goals and the education-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Climate change: information and suggestions [Bangladesh]

  WBB Trust – Work for a better Bangladesh, 2005

  This paper attempts to provide an understanding of the basic process of climate change, the way people are contributing to it and what they can do to reverse the process.The paper starts by giving a brief history about carbon and the greenhouse effect or global warming.
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  Trend and Status of Gender Perspectives in ICT Sector: Case Studies in Asia-Pacific Countries

  2004

  This report is based on research aimed at understanding key gender and ICT issues in Asia Pacific countries, with a focus on Bangladesh, Bhutan and Indonesia. It shows that, despite increasing government attention to ICTs as powerful drivers of economic development, there is still a wide digital divide, and an even wider gender digital divide in all three countries.
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  Beyond access: transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

  Oxfam, 2005

  This book focuses on transforming policy and practice to promote equitable processes in education, in response to the need for equality, quality, and justice for all.
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  Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor: analysis of the vulnerability and adaptability of fisherfolk living in poverty

  Fisheries Management Science Programme, UK, 2004

  Although the majority of the world’s fisherfolk live in areas susceptible to the impacts of climate change, relationships between the physical impacts of climate change and the livelihood vulnerability of poor fishing communities have seldom been investigated.
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  Do interest rates matter?: credit demand in the Dhaka slums

  ADB Institute, 2005

  This paper uses data from SafeSave, a credit cooperative in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, to examine how sensitive borrowers are to increases in the interest rate on loans.
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  Basic services for the poorest

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This Powerpoint presentation, produced by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, explores the issues surrounding basic services for the severely poor (those who are far below a poverty line) and the chronically poor (those below a poverty line for all or much of their lives).

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