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    Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.
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    Get Ahead Foundation [NGO credit in South Africa]

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    Briefly outlines some of GAF’s numerous activities during the past decade. These diverse projects reflect a donor-driven approach to development that was common among South African NGOs during apartheid. The end of apartheid in 1994 precipitated changes in donor priorities, and indirectly caused Get Ahead to change its methods.
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    The Impact of Family Planning and Reproductive Health on Women's Lives: A Conceptual Framework

    Family Health International, 1996
    The framework examines women's use and non-use of family planning, their pregnancy and childbearing experiences, their experiences with family planning programs, and their experiences with other reproductive health services. Also, the framework looks at three domains of women's lives: household and family roles, psychological and physical factors, and societal and economic roles.
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    Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia

    Family Health International, 1996
    Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.
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    Violence Against Women Information Pack: a priority health issue

    Women's Health and Development Programme, WHO, 1998
    Package focuses on violence in families, rape and sexual assault, violence against women in situations of conflict and displacement, as well as violence against the girl child. The consequences of violence on women's health and the role that public health workers can play in multi-sectoral efforts to end the violence are explored.
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    The Social Consequences of the East Asian Financial Crisis

    Social Crisis in East Asia, World Bank, 1998
    What began as a currency crisis in Thailand has evolved into a social crisis across the region and beyond. Within East Asia it was initially hoped that the crisis would involve a sharp contraction and sharp recovery—a "V"-shaped response to a shock, as occurred in Mexico after the 1994/95 currency crisis.
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    The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.
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    The UK White Paper on International Development - and Beyond

    Overseas Development Institute, 1998
    In November 1997, the British Government published its long-awaited White Paper on international development, the first comprehensive statement on British aid for 22 years. It has been widely welcomed as a significant shift in the orientation of British development policy and as a marker for other donors.
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    Ethical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.

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