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    How bioenergy projects could boost rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Some 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and over 2 billion rely on biomass for their cooking and heating needs. Across the developing world there are encouraging examples of small-scale initiatives developing and transforming bioenergy resources into cleaner and more convenient forms of energy. How can they be scaled up?
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    Mutual Accountability at country level: emerging good practice

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    Mutual accountability is a practical response to recent experiences in building greater transparency and accountability at country level - and the lessons learned about the role of country ownership in delivering development results.
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    Values of inland fisheries in the Mekong river basin

    The WorldFish Center, 2007
    Asia has the most productive inland fisheries in the world. The fishery sector contributes significantly to the national economies of the region. Inland fisheries also improve food security by providing a source of protein and a livelihood for millions of people in this part of the world, especially the rural poor.
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    Whose forest tenure reform is it? Lessons from case studies in Vietnam

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
    In Vietnam, forest area under the management of local people has expanded from almost nothing in the early 1990s to nearly 3.5 million hectares (27% of the national forest area) in 2006. This study looks at the extent to which such tenure reform has worked in practice and how it has affected local people’s livelihoods and well being. The study finds that:
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    Competing for business: sustainable development impacts of investment incentives in Southeast Asia

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2009
    Recent decades have seen a proliferation of investment incentives around the world as governments seek to attract increasingly mobile FDI in the hope of spurring economic growth, raising employment and bringing technology and know-how to the country. Southeast Asia is no exception to this trend.
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    Policy dialogue under the new aid approach: which role for medium-sized donors? Theoretical reflections and views from the field

    Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, 2008
    The new aid approach (NAA) - crystallised in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action - pays particular attention to the politico-institutional dimension of development. It is largely centred around a reform-driven governance agenda.
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    Choice of healthcare provider following reform in Vietnam

    BioMed Central, 2008
    In Vietnam, the health-sector reforms since 1989 have led to a rapid increase in out-of-pocket expenses. This paper by Biomed Central examines the choice of medical provider and household health care expenditure for different providers in a rural district of Vietnam following health care reform.
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    Improving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries

    World Health Organization, 2006
    In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exploratory study to examine more closely the track record of these strategies in twelve low-income countries.
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    Rising food prices entrench children in poverty trap

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Food prices have increased dramatically in both world markets and local markets since 2006. Children are suffering as a result.
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    The relationships of trade, economic growth, and market power: the case of rice exporting

    AgEcon Search, 2008
    This paper aims to analyse the relationship between rice exports and economic growth for the world’s top four exporting countries (Thailand, Vietnam, India, and the United States). It also seeks to determine to what extent economic growth impacts a country’s rice exports as well as to what extent foreign direct investment (FDI) impacts a country’s ability to export rice.

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