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    Dream models? Health services during social change

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Which provides the best health service, the ‘American’ model or the ‘European’ model? According to a report by the UK Institute of Development Studies, neither example is useful for countries undergoing rapid social change. For countries like China and South Africa, these dominant models are too static and fail to take into account constantly changing social and political realities.
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    Fish farming: can aquaculture contribute to development ?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Aquaculture is often viewed simply as the intensive culture of salmon and shrimp providing high value products for luxury markets. It is often associated with environmental degradation and its record for contributing to rural development is poor, especially in Africa. Could aquaculture contribute to the livelihoods of the poor, asks recent research by the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand?
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    How do Chinese health workers earn a living wage?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Under the command economy all government health workers in China earned similar salaries. Twenty years of transition to a socialist market economy, including liberalisation of the labour market, has led to growing income differences. An Institute of Development Studies working paper explores how this has affected health workers.
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    Misunderstanding migrants: arguments for radical change

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Governments worldwide have often sought to settle migrant populations. Policies have included population mobility control in China and strict laws banning rural-urban migration in Ethiopia during the Derg regime. Is migration a severe threat to established lifestyles as is widely believed? A Department for International Development (DFID) paper offers a radical reassessment of the issue.
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    Uncovering the evidence. What works for safe motherhood?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Over half a million mothers still die annually from obstetric complications and associated diseases. Indeed, most maternal deaths are linked to delivery. How can this be, ten years into the Safe Motherhood Initiative? What strategies would reduce maternal mortality rates (MMR)? And why is determining the best way forward so difficult?
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    Juggling with hunger: can developing countries square market reforms with food security?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How have developing countries balanced food security with the need to open up markets to free trade? Attempts to withdraw from direct state involvement in food marketing, while stabilising staple food supplies, have had mixed success.
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    Changing times - health reform in rural China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How has China formulated health policies during the transition to a market economy? How can government help localities improve their rural health services? An Institute of Development Studies working paper reviews how a large rural health reform project was designed to gain insights into the policy process in China.
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    Lost in space: Locating the chronically poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People living in certain areas are often vulnerable to similar risks, increasing their chance of becoming chronically poor. At the same time, in some poor areas not everyone is poor, and not everyone who is poor will remain so for long. Where do ‘pockets of poverty’ exist and why? Under what conditions can they become ‘poverty traps’?
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    Unknown threat? The looming HIV crisis in China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The UN predicts that 10 million Chinese could be infected with HIV by 2010. Without a speedy government response, HIV could spread quickly through the general population. What are the barriers facing HIV prevention programmes in China? Researchers from the Futures Group investigate.
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    Cutting cloth to fit: Competing in global garment value chains

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Garment producers in developing countries face key global challenges, including changing trade regimes, international standards, new competitors and demands from buyers for higher quality, lower prices and faster delivery. Against such global challenges, who wins and who loses in Bangladesh and Vietnam?

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