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  As urban sanitation needs go unmet, is it time to respond strategically?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Although the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 focused attention on the importance of sanitation, there remain millions of urban dwellers without adequate sanitation and the number is still rising. Agencies struggle to meet the needs of marginalised communities who lack access to adequate sanitation and a lack of resources undermines the sustainable operation of existing services.
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  Gender bias in education: here to stay?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  At the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000, 164 states pledged to eliminate gender disparities in school enrolment by 2005 and to achieve gender equality by 2015. Are these key Education for All (EFA) targets likely to be met? Have the barriers that have traditionally prevented girls from getting the schooling to which they are entitled, begun to break down?
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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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  Quantifying the transport, regulatory and other costs of Indian overland exports to Bangladesh

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2004

  Even in an increasingly globalised world, informal trade barriers still exist and inhibit trade flows, particularly in developing countries, due to factors such as complex customs procedures, capacity constraints and corruption at the border.
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  Taps and toilets: accessible water supply and sanitation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Disabled people have the least access to water and sanitation services, which adds to their isolation, poor health and poverty.
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  Partnerships for girls’ education

  Oxfam, 2005

  This book presents an analysis of the achievements and challenges of partnerships for girls' education.
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  Drivers of escape and descent: changing household fortunes in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004

  This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty.
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  Untapped connections: gender, water and poverty. Key issues, government commitments and actions for sustainable development

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This paper presents an overview of the relationship between gender, poverty and water. This includes men's and women's differential access to water and differential water uses, different experiences of health and sanitation, and how men and women are differently affected by public versus private services.
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  Behind the brand names: working conditions and labour rights in export processing zones

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2004

  The report explores the realties of working conditions in export prcessing zones (EPZs). It points out that EPZs are costly in terms of the infrastructure they require, use few local inputs, and provide little or no tax revenue for their host countries.
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  Reaching the extreme poor: learning from Concern’s community development programmes in Bangladesh

  Concern Worldwide, 2003

  This paper looks at whether Concern is reaching the extreme poor effectively through its existing community development projects in Bangladesh. It explores which groups fall into the extreme poor categories and why, their vulnerabilities and their capacities to cope with crises.

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