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    Dream models? Health services during social change

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Which provides the best health service, the ‘American’ model or the ‘European’ model? According to a report by the UK Institute of Development Studies, neither example is useful for countries undergoing rapid social change. For countries like China and South Africa, these dominant models are too static and fail to take into account constantly changing social and political realities.
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    Certifiably eco-friendly: is certification promoting sustainable forestry management?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Forest certification is all the rage, but is it having any impact? Who is benefiting from the ‘good wood’ trade? Is certification improving responsible business practice in forest product supply chains? Can the private sector and local stakeholders work to manage forests in ways that sustainably optimise social and environmental benefits?
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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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    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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    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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    Failing the challenge: the other Shell report 2002

    Friends of the Earth, 2003
    This campaign document presents itself as an alternative to Shell's own sustainability report.
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    AIDS, public policy and child well-being

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001
    This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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    Teacher education through distance learning: technology, curriculum, costs, evaluation

    Education Sector, UNESCO, 2001
    Distance and open learning has been identified by UNESCO as a way of increasing teacher numbers and capacity. This document synthesises case studies commissioned in order to find how best this form of learning might be used.Each of the ten case studies is presented separately and findings and recommendations for further research are synthesised.

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