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    The universal social pension in Nepal: an assessment of its impact on older people in Tanahun district

    HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009
    Nepal introduced a non-contributory social pension scheme in 1995. This scheme is unique to Asia being the primary universal pension scheme in the region and a model for other developing countries.
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    Nepalese children speak out on climate change 

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Nepalese children have a clear understanding of the impacts of climate change upon their lives. Children have a right to participate in climate change debates and adaptation programmes, and governments should listen to them.
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    Inclusive growth in Nepal

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    Nepal has had a good economic growth since the mid 80s and throughout the 90s. This has led to increased inequality, but in general the poor have also benefited economically. The exception is some ethnic groups of the central and eastern hills, where labour migration has been more limited.
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    Helping the families of home-based workers break the cycle of poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In Asia there are millions of home-based women workers and the vast majority are poor. How can the risks and vulnerabilities these women face be reduced? And what can be done to help the children of home-based workers escape poverty?
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    Safety net: protected areas and poverty reduction

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008
    This report looks at the role of protected areas in poverty reduction, focusing primarily on the poorest countries and on poor communities within those countries. The publication seeks to specifically review five linked questions:
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    Promoting group justice: fiscal policies in post-conflict countries

    Political Economy Research Institute, 2008
    The need for post-conflict countries to address economic inequality, particularly horizontal inequality among culturally defined groups, is increasingly being recognised. But it is less clear how this should be done.
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    Some recent experience in community voice card: an innovative tool towards assessing service delivery for MDGs

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2007
    The key to attaining the first seven MDGs lies with local stakeholders. Participatory monitoring is therefore an important means to assess progress towards these goals. Community voice tools (CVT) applied in India (West Bengal), Nepal, Moldova and China assess MDG related projects by collecting local stakeholders' judgements on:
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    'Inclusive citizenship' for the chronically poor: exploring the inclusion-exclusion nexus in collective struggles

    Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2008
    The promotion of ‘inclusive citizenship’, through which the disadvantaged engage in collective struggles for justice and recognition, has been attracting growing attention as a solution to chronic poverty. This paper considers this formulation by drawing on a case of landless squatters (Sukumbasis) in Western Nepal.
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    Mothers and community based organisations tackle childhood nutrition in Nepal

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Evidence from countries such as Indonesia and Burkina Faso suggests that community-based organisations (CBOs) can play an important role in helping rural women reduce childhood malnutrition.
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    A sense of direction: the trafficking of women and children from Nepal

    Childtrafficking.com, 2006
    What are the key causes for the continuation of trafficking of women and children from Nepal? This paper finds, amongst other points, that the trafficking situation is now worse than ever, with the current state of Nepal exacerbating the inherent problems (corruption, poverty, discrimination against women, etc) that have allowed trafficking to proliferate.

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