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    Sending money home: a survey of remittance products and services in the United Kingdom

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    This report provides comparable and accessible information on the products and services available to people wanting to send money home from the UK to developing countries. The report aims to increase transparency on costs, speed of money transfer, and the coverage and customer service that banks, building societies and money transfer operators offer in the UK.
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    Impactos amplios de las Microfinanzas

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    La mayoría de las IMFs buscan promover el negocio de sus clientes y por lo tanto elevar los ingresos de los clientes. Algunas IMFs también invierten en servicios dirigidos a alcanzar impactos sociales directos a través de la concientización sobre temas de salud, incentivando la educación de los niños, promoviendo el empoderamiento de las mujeres dentro de los hogares y demás.
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    On the same side – public-private partnerships in TB control

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Many developing country governments are struggling to control the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Public-private partnerships are a practical way to increase TB control capacity and improve the quality of private sector care. Researchers from the UK Nuffield Institute for Health propose a process for developing new partnership models, using Bangladesh as an example.
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    The MNPI study: measures of strength for maternal health programs in 55 developing countries

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
    This paper, produced by the POLICY Project, reports on research relating to the Maternal and Neonatal Program Effort Index (MNPI), a standardised assessment instrument designed to measure the strength and character of government programmes to improve maternal and newborn health. The index was applied during 1999 and 2002, to 49 and 55 developing countries respectively.
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    Costs of illness due to typhoid fever in an Indian urban slum community: implications for vaccine policy

    Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2004
    Typhoid fever is common in India and other developing countries, but the available vaccines are not being widely used. Information is lacking on the cost of illness and the cost-effectiveness of different strategies to prevent or cure typhoid and paratyphoid.
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    Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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    Quantifying the transport, regulatory and other costs of Indian overland exports to Bangladesh

    National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2004
    Even in an increasingly globalised world, informal trade barriers still exist and inhibit trade flows, particularly in developing countries, due to factors such as complex customs procedures, capacity constraints and corruption at the border.
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    Untapped connections: gender, water and poverty. Key issues, government commitments and actions for sustainable development

    Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003
    This paper presents an overview of the relationship between gender, poverty and water. This includes men's and women's differential access to water and differential water uses, different experiences of health and sanitation, and how men and women are differently affected by public versus private services.
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    Creating voice and carving space

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2004
    This book is based upon the premise that while politics and power play a central role in decisions governing the lives of many women in developing countries, international development agencies supporting the good governance agenda in the 1990s largely failed to acknowledge this in their approaches.
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    Opening minds, opening up opportunities: children’s participation in action for working children

    Save the Children Fund, 2004
    This report is the outcome of research on participation and working children in Bangladesh, Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras, India and Senegal.Working children’s participation involves a wide range of activities, such as: consultation with working children through participatory research on their working lives and asking them about the types of service interventions they feel they would gain from

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