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    Regoverning markets programme: innovative practice series

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries and small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural poor, is poorly prepared for these changes.
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    Living in the background: home-based women workers and poverty persistence

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    This paper examines the relationship between home-based work and persistent poverty in certain parts of South and South East Asia. The author argues that an expanded conception of social protection is needed if poverty prevention initiatives are to be effective in the case of home-based women workers.
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    Central Emergency Response Fund: interim review

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2007
    The report outlines the results of an independent interim review of the grant component of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) carried out between March and July 2007. This review is based on case studies from six countries - Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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    Study on various elements of rural transport safety: a synthesis of pilot case studies from Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar, Cameroon and Peru

    International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, 2007
    This paper by the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development reports on five studies in India, Peru, Cameroon, Madagascar and Sri Lanka that explore how rural transport safety issues affect the lives of women, men and children in rural areas.
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    Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.
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    Who benefits from public spending on health care in Asia?

    Equitap, 2005
    This paper by EQUITAP examines the benefit incidence of public health care subsidies in eleven Asian territories including India, Indonesia, and two provinces of China. Distinguishing between hospital and non-hospital care, and inpatient and outpatient care, the paper examines the distribution of health care and the value of subsidies.
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    The role of NGOs in conflict and peace-building

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Non-government organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly involved in the international response to armed conflict, some aiming to mitigate the effects of war and others to help end the violence. But what impacts do they have, and how could they be improved?
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    Tsunami exposes flaws in the international humanitarian response system

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The scale of the humanitarian response to the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was unprecedented. For once, an international emergency response was largely free of financial constraints. But in the rush to achieve results many of the agencies involved fell short, particularly in considering the needs and abilities of affected communities and local institutions.
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    Making it safer to cross waterways in Sri Lanka

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Sri Lanka has about 120,000 engineered rural waterway crossings (such as bridges) and another 250,000 non-engineered crossings built and maintained by communities. Because of a lack of financial and human resources, local authorities are unable to maintain them. Marginalised rural communities are concerned that they are unsafe and restrict their access to markets and government services.
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    Civilians in the way of conflict: displaced people in Sri Lanka

    Norwegian Refugee Council, 2007
    Since mid-2006, a dramatic escalation in the civil war in Sri Lanka between government  forces and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has resulted in over 4,000  deaths and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.

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