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  Erosion of ethnic identity: is globalisation to blame?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why is the international community concerned about preservation of biodiversity yet indifferent to the erosion of cultural diversity? Why do we consider habitats as worthy of conservation yet make so little effort to accumulate indigenous knowledge concerning them? Can the eroding power of globalisation on minority cultures be checked?
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  The influence of maternal and child health-service utilization on subsequent contraceptive use

  The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2002

  Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys and Service Availability Surveys, this study examines the relationship between maternal and child health (MCH) service utilisation and subsequent contraceptive use in five developing countries: Bolivia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Morocco, and Tanzania.Findings:in Morocco, Guatemala, and Indonesia the analysis suggests that the intensity of M
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  Moving from research to program: the Egyptian Postabortion Care Initiative

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003

  The paper describes assesses a project that sought to improve the standard of care for women with abortion complications in Egypt, from pilot program to work with the Ministry of Health and Population.Successes and failures:the initiative used a highly flexible, innovative management style that was consistent with contemporary theories of how to diffuse innovation and scale up pilot act
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  Database of malaria control in complex emergencies, 2000

  Malaria Consortium, 2000

  This database presents the results of a questionnaire, developed and sent to agencies involved in malaria control in countries in complex emergency situations, together with literature reviews.
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  Private sector health care providers in Morocco: family planning attitudes and characteristics

  The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2002

  This paper reports on surveys conducted amongst private health care providers to assess the attitudes of public providers, private providers, and pharmacists toward family planning (FP) and the social marketing brands of FP. Some of the differences across different provider types (i.e.
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  Information and communication technology and development [in the Arab world]

  World Summit on the Information Society, 2003

  This paper focuses on the current status and recent trends of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and accordingly, prospects for development in the Arab world arguing that present shortcomings and future challenges imposed on Arab countries must be translated into opportunities for future public-private sector collaboration, with a major role for NGOs.Initially the report present
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  Perceptions of contraceptives among women in Jordan: a projective study

  The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2001

  This paper reports on a CMS/Jordan project that conducted research into Jordanian women's perceptions of different methods of family planning.
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  Losing ground: Israel, poverty and the Palestinians

  Christian Aid, 2003

  Based on Christian Aid's work with local organisations in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories over the last five decades, this report looks at how and why ordinary Palestinians find themselves in conditions of deepening poverty.The paper demonstrates that today's acute impoverishment is in danger of destroying Palestinian society.
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  Effective drug regulation: a multi-country study

  World Health Organization, 2002

  National medicines policy usually includes activities to ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of all medicines available in the country.
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  The Iraq weapons report: a review

  OpenDemocracy, 2003

  This article offers an assessment of the Iraq Survey Group’s interim report on the Saddam regime’s weapons programmes and capabilities, by a chemical weapons expert who oversaw the United Nations inspection operations in Iraq in the early 1990s.The article finds that while turning up little in the way of actual weapons, the ISG report does provide comfort of a kind to the pro-war lobby, by rest

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