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  Voices of child migrants: a better understanding of how life is

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006

  There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana who were interviewed in the course of the Migration DRC research so as to highlight what children themselves think and say about their lives.
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  Boosting private investment in Asian infrastructure

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Infrastructure investment has helped to encourage economic growth in East and South Asia. However, increasing demand has highlighted shortfalls in the quantity and quality of infrastructure. This threatens to limit growth, particularly in India. Meanwhile, hopes that the private sector would finance infrastructure have not been met.
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  Building towers, cheating workers: exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This report documents alleged exploitation of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates.
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  Aquaculture: benefiting rural and urban people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The global aquaculture industry is growing by ten percent each year – quicker than any other food sector. The most impressive changes are found around the cities of developing countries, particularly south and southeast Asia.
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  Tackling social exclusion in health and education: case studies from Asia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This paper draws together some of the lessons from a study commissioned by DFID to identify ways of tackling social exclusion through promising practices in health and education in the Asia region.
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  What Men Think About Gender Equality: Lessons from Oxfam GB Staff in Delhi and Dhaka

  2004

  How can development organisations promote greater personal commitment to gender equality among male staff? This article explores what male Oxfam staff in Bangladesh and India think about gender equality.
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  Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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  Sustainable sanitation in rural South Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Sixty percent of people in South Asia lack access to adequate sanitation. Achieving the seventh Millennium Development Goal to halve the population without access to sanitation by 2015 will therefore require a massive effort. Access needs to increase quickly and widely but programmes must also be sustainable.
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  Using microfinance to prevent debt bondage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Bonded labour is a major human rights challenge in South-East Asia. Millions of poor people are forced to work for little or no wage, as they struggle in vain to repay loans from their employers. The provision of microfinance is emerging as a key strategy, given that bondage generally results from the need for credit.
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  Company Codes of Conduct and Workers Rights: Report of an Education and Consultation Programme with Garment Workers in Asia

  2002

  Women Working Worldwide carried out an education and consultation programme with women workers in Asia, in July 1999 and December 2001. Eight organisations in seven different Asian countries undertook to adapt and print educational materials on codes of conduct for use in their own education programmes, as well as programmes of other nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and trade unions.

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