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    Explaining the incidence of catastrophic expenditures on health care: comparative evidence from Asia

    Equitap, 2005
    Heavy reliance on out of pocket (OOP) financing of health care in most developing countries leaves households exposed to the risks of unforeseen medical expenditures.
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    Global Corruption Report 2007

    Transparency International, 2007
    This year’s report concentrates on judicial systems and warns that corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial. The report provides comparative analysis of judicial corruption based on 32 country reports and provides
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    Remittances: an unrecognised support mechanism during humanitarian crises

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Remittances – money sent home by migrants – can help families survive conflicts or natural disasters. However, humanitarian agencies often fail to consider remittances when planning interventions. This neglect reflects tendencies to undervalue crisis-affected populations and to simplistically depict disaster-affected people as helpless and vulnerable.
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    Emergency obstetric care: the key to further reducing maternal mortality in Sri Lanka

    World Health Organization, 2002
    This paper, in the South East Asia Regional Health Forum, discusses ways of reducing maternal mortality in Sri Lanka. Whilst the maternal mortality rate in Sri Lanka compares favourably with that of other countries in the region, much more can be done to bring down this rate further.
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    Rural transport, safety and security

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    By 2020, road accidents are expected to be the third highest cause of death and disability globally. Transport safety concerns in poor countries have focused mainly on roads and motorised traffic, but in rural areas, transport safety includes a broader set of issues. How does transport safety affect rural communities, and what can be done to improve safety?
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    Anti-child trafficking legislation in Asia: a six country review

    International Labour Organization, 2006
    What are the inadequacies of the legal frameworks addressing the problem of cross- border trafficking? This extensive paper looks at international legal frameworks, and regional conventions. It highlights inadequacies of the legal frameworks in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia as well as the discrepancies between the national laws and international instruments.
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    A new way to understand demand for water in Sri Lanka

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Design of affordable water supply and sanitation systems must be based on knowledge of all the factors that drive individual and household demand. Conventional studies of willingness to pay, however, assume that cost is the major constraint to demand for such a system among poor households.
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    Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.
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    Study of Homebased Workers in the Southern Province

    HomeNet South Asia, 2007
    In Sri Lanka, numbers of women engaged in home-based work are increasing. Despite this, their work is often invisible to policy-makers and governments, and its economic value is rarely acknowledged.
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    Inclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.

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