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    Social and economic changes challenge Chinese health system

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Major changes in Chinese society are transforming the population’s healthcare needs and expectations. How can the government meet current entitlements whilst creating a system to cater for future needs? Researchers at the Institute of Development Studies analyse recent reforms and potential new strategies.
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    Restructuring and retrenchment: The textile industry in South Africa and Vietnam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The textile industry in developing countries provides a striking example of the opportunities and threats from globalisation. While textiles are a potential export to global markets, the industry is having to adjust to increased competition as tariffs and other restrictions against imports are reduced under policies of trade liberalisation. How does this affect local incomes and employment?
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    A new revolution: experiences of poverty for urban China’s laid-off workers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Until the 1990s most people living in cities in China were protected from poverty by a work-unit system which guaranteed lifelong employment, cradle-to-grave social services and adequate living standards and welfare. What has happened to the losers in China’s headlong embrace of the free market? What coping strategies do they deploy? How are their perceptions mediated by gender and age?
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    Maternal and child healthcare reform in China: bypassing the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As China embraces the market economy, are inequalities in health services widening? Is China succeeding in its declared aim of establishing a regulatory health framework to protect the interests of the poor? How are institutions responding as centralised control of health services weakens? Are maternal and infant healthcare (MIHC) services adequately funded and accessible?
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    Paying the price? Reforming China’s public health institutions

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does the financial reform of China's public health institutions (PHIs) lead to improved healthcare as well as productivity? What lessons are there to be learnt by other countries? China's Shandong Medical University, together with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looked at the results of China’s public health reforms.
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    Saving the children: fighting AIDS in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Asia will be the next continent after sub- Saharan Africa to see a rapid growth in the AIDS epidemic. Large numbers of children are becoming infected and losing parents. What is the best way of fighting the virus? How should the topic of sex, which is taboo in many cultures, be broached? A report by Save the Children illustrates its work with young people in South and South East Asia.
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    Certifiably eco-friendly: is certification promoting sustainable forestry management?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Forest certification is all the rage, but is it having any impact? Who is benefiting from the ‘good wood’ trade? Is certification improving responsible business practice in forest product supply chains? Can the private sector and local stakeholders work to manage forests in ways that sustainably optimise social and environmental benefits?
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    Asia – success or failure? Provident funds governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many Asian countries rely on provident funds to finance retirement. Globalisation, rapid ageing, a need for fiscal consolidation and more individualistic preferences have increased the significance of provident funds, but substantive reforms in their governance are needed to realise their full potential.
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    Daily or monthly? Choosing contraceptive pills in Cambodia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is the Chinese monthly pill a popular form of contraception in Cambodia?  What are its side effects?  The Royal University of Phnom Penh and Marie Stopes International carried out a study of women using the pill and the drug sellers who provide it in a rural part of Prey Veng province to discover their attitudes to the pill, which is not sanctioned by the Cambodian government.  Information was gat
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    Fair enough? Access to health services in urban China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    China’s economic reforms have improved average income and living standards. But how has the health system fared? Universal access to healthcare is enshrined in the country’s constitution. But do services really meet people's healthcare needs regardless of their ability to pay?

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