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    Debt and health

    Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2007
    Developing country governments will struggle to invest in decent public health facilities when valuable resources are needed to service debt. However, the evidence is that debt relief works to alleviate healthcare shortages - spending on health in countries that have received debt cancellation has risen by seventy percent.
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    Parental participation in Peruvian education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Education planners now recognise that parental involvement is necessary to guarantee transparent and democratic administration in schools. In 2003, Peru’s Congress formally committed the country to ensuring parental participation. However, parents and teachers are unsure about their roles.
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    Payments for environmental services: an equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006
    This paper looks at Payments for Environmental Services (PES) as an equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature. It presents a number of case studies including Guatemala, Peru and the Philippines, whilst also discussing the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) approach to equitable PES.
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    Collective action for innovation and small farmer market access: the Papa Andina experience

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2007
    The Andean highlands are home to some of the poorest rural households in South America. Native potato varieties and local knowledge for their cultivation and use are unique resources possessed by farmers in these areas.
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    Robust multiperiod poverty comparisons

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2007
    DIAL propose a new methodology for comparing poverty over multiple periods across time and space that does not arbitrarily aggregate income over various years or rely on arbitrarily specified poverty lines or poverty indices.
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    SexPolitics: reports from the front lines

    Sexuality Policy Watch, 2008
    How and why are gender and sexuality being used in political power struggles within and across countries and institutions? This question was at the heart of a project launched by Sexuality Policy Watch in 2004 - a transnational, cross-cultural research initiative seeking to capture the dynamics of contemporary sexual politics.
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    Levels of male partner violence against women are too high and must be addressed

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Physical and sexual abuse in the home is a common occurrence worldwide. However some cultures are more tolerant of domestic violence than others and the levels of violence vary enormously from country to country. Physical and sexual violence by men against their partners is a serious public health problem that must be addressed.
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    How can women enjoy equal access to urban property rights?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Women’s land rights in urban areas have been long overlooked as a development issue. There is increased awareness that traditional land tenure systems reinforce gender inequality but is it just a question of giving women formal title to property? Can alternative approaches to security of tenure better promote women’s interests?
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    Subjective assessments, participatory methods and poverty dynamics: the Stages-of-Progress method

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    The Stages-of-Progress methodology helps examine why households move out of and into poverty. This paper presents the methodology, briefly discussing some results from case studies carried out in diverse communities of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru and the USA.
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    An analysis of the multiple links between economic and subjective wellbeing indicators using data from Peru

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007
    Previous studies in Peru have identified apparent mismatches between people’s perceptions of their wellbeing and indicators of their material welfare. This paper empirically explores the relationship between indicators of economic and subjective wellbeing. Study findings indicate that:

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