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  Reshaping education in post-conflict countries

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Conflict can devastate a country’s education system. It reverses efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals for universal completion of primary education, and for gender equality in schools by 2015. At the same time, rebuilding education is increasingly seen as essential to reduce the risk of countries falling back into conflict.
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  Female Suicide Bombers

  McFarland Publishers, 2006

  Celebrated as liberators and martyrs by those who support their cause and denounced as terrorists by their opponents, suicide bombers have become all too common in violent conflicts worldwide. The female suicide bomber is a relative newcomer to the landscapes of war, but more and more women are being recruited for self-sacrifice.
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  Making city growth work for poor people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.
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  Identification of the poor in Sri Lanka: development of composite indicator and regional poverty lines

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2006

  The multidimensional nature of poverty creates difficulties in both identification and definition.
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  Property restitution in practice: the Norwegian Refugee Councils' experience

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2005

  Despite considerable advances in human rights and humanitarian law in recent years, the right to land, housing and property restitution is only gradually gaining recognition. This paper assesses the experiences of displaced peoples' property rights in a variety of regions in which the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) works.
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  South Asian positions in the WTO Doha Round: in search of a true development agenda

  Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2005

  Bringing together contributions of five research organisations in five developing countries - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – this book highlights the concerns of South Asian countries regarding the WTO Doha Round, and provides information and analysis on the main agenda items facing developing countries in future negotiates on the WTO.Chapters of the book include:"Ag
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  Evaluation of reconciliation, peace and development in the North and the East (2001-2004)

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This document evaluates the Reconciliation, Peace and Development in the North and the East (RPDNE) project in Sri Lanka.
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  Conflict assessments: aid, conflict and peace building in Sri Lanka

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  This report, based upon a two-week field visit to Sri Lanka in April 2000, represents one contribution towards understanding these linkages better, and developing practical approaches to poverty alleviation and conflict mitigation in a context of ongoing violence.
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  Creating an enabling environment for the advancement of women and girls

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2006

  This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women.
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  Poor people speak up to impact urban governance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  For millions of people in developing country cities the informal sector provides the principal source of income. The relationship between city governance and informal traders is generally complex. Conventional legislation affecting the traders has often been inappropriate and has had detrimental effects on their livelihoods.

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