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  Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.
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  Jobs listing from British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND)

  British Overseas NGOs for Development, 1999

  Listing of current vacancies with members of BOND, UK-based developmental NGOs
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  What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action.
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  Impact of Family Planning on Women’s Participation in the Development Process [in Zimbabwe]

  Family Health International, 1998

  Examines the question of how family planning use may affect the ability of women to participate in the development process.
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  Impact of the Asia crisis on children: Issues for social safety nets

  Australian Agency for International Development, 1999

  Report is based on a survey carried out in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand on the impact of the Asia crisis on children.
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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  Attacking Poverty: World Development Report 2000/2001

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2000

  The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health.
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  Global poverty report 2000

  African Development Bank, 2000

  This report was prepared for the G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit Meeting 2000 by a consortium of multilateral finance organizations including African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank.The report focuses on three main topics:global poverty conditions and trendsregional poverty tr
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  Innovations in developing countries for people with disabilities

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2001

  This series of articles discusses the issue of innovative methods for equipping people with disabilities with a dignified and sufficiently autonomous life. The editors of this series of articles stress that our institutions, our special schools, our sheltered workshops have not created a full and decent life for people with disabilities.
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  Human resources in agricultural and rural development

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001

  Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development.

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