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    Development in a drugs environment

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Many illicit drug growers are poor, vulnerable to unfair laws and arrangements and exploited by criminals and corrupt officials. However, many development programmes still ignore their plight. How can policymakers and practitioners help these forgotten people?
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    Uneven development stimulates drug consumption in South-East Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    United Nations-supported development policies have focused on eradicating the production and trade of illicit drugs in South-East Asia. However, tensions between development initiatives and those seeking to control the trade have created changing, often unanticipated, patterns of drug consumption.
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    Understanding maternal mortality: achieving the fifth Millennium Development Goal

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The poorest women in the world have a one-in-six lifetime risk of dying due to pregnancy or childbirth, compared with one in 30,000 in Sweden. If progress is to be made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015, we need to understand who is dying, when, where and why.
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    Poverty reduction through investment in transport and energy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Although investment in energy and transport infrastructure is considered crucial to poverty reduction, there is little direct evidence for this link. Energy and transport services are intermediate goods: they enable other activities that may reduce poverty. Studying how they actually affect poverty could lead to more pro-poor approaches to providing infrastructure.
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    The high cost of calling: critical issues in the mobile phone industry

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
    This report looks at corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mobile phone industry.
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    Population ageing in East and South-East Asia: current situation and emerging challenges

    UNFPA Country Technical Services Team for East and South-East Asia, 2006
    There has been marked progress in the policy response to population ageing in countries of the ESEAR, particularly since the commemoration of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999 and the 2002 Madrid World Assembly on Ageing.This report describes the current situation of population ageing, its causes and consequences and implications at the policy, programme and community level.
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    Time to rethink urban planning in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    By 2015 Asia will have 12 mega-cities each with over ten million people.  One in three urban Asians lives in a slum.  As urbanisation accelerates, this number will rise unless Asian governments and the international development community prioritise housing and infrastructure development. 
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    FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Fish stocks declined worldwide in the late 20th century and the international fish trade is increasing. If there is to be enough fish for future generations, everyone in the fishing industry must help to conserve and manage the world’s fisheries.
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    A handbook on mainstreaming disability

    Voluntary Service Overseas, 2006
    Drawing on VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) experience in Indonesia and Thailand, this toolkit provides practical guidance to support organisations to mainstream disability into their work.Each chapter of the handbook addresses a key topic in mainstreaming disability:Chapter 1: overview of the topic and outlines preparation processesChapter 2: how discrimination works
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    Dementia in the Asia Pacific region: the epidemic is here

    Access Economics, 2006
    The dementias are a group of diseases characterised by loss of short-term memory, other thinking (cognitive) abilities and daily functioning. Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the commonest types of dementia.

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