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    Moving from risk to resilience: Sustainable urban development in the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    This report focuses on urbanization, combined with the increasing frequency and intensity of natural hazards associated with the onset of climate change, as a major contributor to risk exposure in the Pacific.
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    Critical sustainability: Setting the limits to growth and responsibility in tourism

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
    The purpose of this paper is to overview the conceptual dimensions of sustainable tourism and discuss some of the main sources of frustration. Based on this, it is concluded that while a conceptual plurality seems to be unavoidable, there is a need to re-frame i.e., rescale and decentralize tourism in policy frameworks and practices aiming towards sustainability.
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    Caring for wellbeing

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Commissioned by the Bellagio Initiative as part of their Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Human Wellbeing series, this paper by IDS fellows Marzia Fontana and Rosalind Eyben presents an alternative to the development field’s traditional emphasis on economic growth over human wellbeing, and its ignorance of care as a public good that sustains and reproduces society and ma
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    National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights ((NCDHR))

    National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights is a forum committed to the elimination of discrimination based on caste.
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    Current debates on infrastructure policy

    World Bank, 2007
    This paper is a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Vice-Presidency. It provides an overview of the major current debates on infrastructure policy and reviews the evidence on the significance of the sector in terms of growth and poverty alleviation.
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    What are the major barriers to increased use of modern energy services among the world’s poorest people and are interventions to overcome these effective?

    Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, 2012
    This systematic review was commissioned by Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK and published by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE).
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    Investments to end poverty

    Development Initiatives, 2013
    The end of poverty in all its forms is at the centre of discussions on global goals post-2015. So, it is essential to mobilise all resources and to focus on those, like aid, that can make the strongest contributions to the poorest people, so that they deliver as much poverty reduction as possible for every dollar.
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    A Right to a Decent Home: Asia Pacific Poverty Housing Report

    Habitat for Humanity, 2007
    This report gives an overview of housing conditions for people living in poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. It highlights the importance of community-led shelter development as well as discussing housing conditions with a focus on urbanisation and population growth in cities. Various types of informal settlements are explored.
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    We can also make change

    Sightsavers International, 2013
    Voices of the Marginalised is a pilot project, focusing on Bangladesh, bringing the perspectives of those who live in poverty or who are highly marginalised, including those with disabilities, older people and people living with mental health problems, into post-2015 policymaking.
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    Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor

    World Bank, 2012
    The residents of slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards, living on the most vulnerable lands within cities.

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