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    UK and overseas universities: working together to promote development?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The UK’s Higher Education Links Scheme (HEL) promotes exchanges (usually for three years) between UK and overseas universities. In line with objectives set out in its 1997 White Paper on the Elimination of World Poverty, the UK is keen that HEL should focus on poverty alleviation, sustainable development and gender equity. Is this re-emphasis producing results?
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    In and out of destitution: poverty dynamics and vulnerability in rural China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    After embarking on economic reforms in 1978, China witnessed one of the most successful examples of poverty reduction in history. But this growth has not benefited all and deep and widespread poverty still persists in rural inland China. How vulnerable to poverty are households in rural inland China?
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    Hearts and minds? Defining civil-military links globally

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since the end of the Cold War there has been a growing debate on civil-military cooperation (CIMIC). Mutual support and interaction between civilian and military actors, the importance of CIMIC in modern Peace Support Operations is now widely recognised.
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    Enhancing welfare or reinforcing insecurity? Social security in rural China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Providing social security to low income rural populations is widely considered to be fiscally unaffordable and administratively infeasible. Recent research examined welfare provision in rural China to understand the formal and informal mechanisms through which households meet their needs and to explore the feasibility of alternative institutional mechanisms of welfare provision.
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    e-Governance: can it lead to better government?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is e-governance? Can information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to the achievement of good governance goals? What are the implications for development? Why, when there is so much promise, do many e- governance initiatives go wrong? Can the gulf between the connected and the un-connected be bridged?
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    Disentangling chronic and transitory poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do anti-poverty programme designers understand the degree to which temporary shocks can have permanent effects on vulnerable households? How can we distinguish between, and measure, chronic and transitory poverty? What policies are needed to disrupt intergenerationally transmitted poverty?
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    On trial - house spraying versus treated bednets for malaria control

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Insecticide-treated mosquito nets have replaced house spraying as the preferred method for preventing malaria in many endemic areas. But which is most effective? Entomologists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the South African Medical Research Council reviewed trials of the two strategies in Africa, Asia and Melanesia.
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    Central reservation? Drawbacks of healthcare decentralisation in China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does decentralisation improve public health services? Does devolution of power allow for effective mobilisation of community resources to meet local needs? Researchers from the UK's Institute of Development Studies and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine studied the effects of health reform in a poor rural county in China.
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    Monitoring PRSPs: business as usual?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What distinguishes the process of developing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) from previous approaches to development co- operation and concessional lending? What kinds of indicators are required for PRSP monitoring? What kinds of institutional arrangements and processes can contribute to learning and accountability around PRSPs?
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    Measuring the haze: quantifying environmental and health impacts of urban energy use

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The urban poor suffer disproportionately from the effects of air pollution. Could changes in patterns of urban and domestic energy use reduce outdoor and indoor air pollution? How can recent advances in environmental economics contribute to pro-poor cost-benefit analysis of options to tackle the growing problem of foul air?

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