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    The wider impacts of microfinance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Most MFIs (Microfinance institutions) seek to promote the business of their clients and thereby raise client incomes. Some MFIs also invest in services intended to achieve direct social impacts in the form of raising awareness on health, encouraging children’s education, promoting women’s empowerment within households and so on. MFI achievements on this front have been relatively well-documented.
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    Microfinance and the MDGs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Microfinance, and the impact it produces, goes beyond just business loans. Poor people use financial services not only for business investment in their microenterprises but also for health and education, managing household emergencies, and meeting the wide variety of other cash needs that they encounter.
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    Partnership and performance in the city: can urban NGOs raise their performance?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) gain their experience in rural development. Are they therefore lost in the city – unable to understand the concept of ‘community’ and unsure how to pursue a pro-poor agenda? How can NGOs be assisted in their progression from service providers to advocates, able to exert pro-poor influence on policymakers?
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    Sex work toolkit: targeted HIV/AIDS prevention and care in sex work settings

    World Health Organization, 2004
    This WHO toolkit is intended as a resource to guide the development and implementation of effective HIV interventions in diverse sex work settings and is aimed at anyone who works in HIV prevention in these settings. The first section of the toolkit provides an introduction and context for HIV interventions in sex work.
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    Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi-country study

    World Bank, 2004
    This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools.
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    Textile and clothing trade rules prevent poverty alleviation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Textiles and clothing exports from developing countries continue to undermine poverty alleviation despite current changes to trade rules. Since 1974, rich countries have used the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas to restrict entry of these goods to their markets.
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    Economics of pensions and social security in South Asia: special focus on India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

    South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2003
    This study proposes to identify the modalities of a comprehensive pension and social security scheme for the elderly population in South Asia, from the experience of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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    Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives

    South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003
    This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.
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    DFID Education Fact Sheet

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    This DFID fact sheet presents a brief overview of the global situation of education, and DFID’s commitment to progress in the education sector.
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    Environmentally induced migration from Bangladesh to India

    Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003
    Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the Indo-Bangladesh context is generating a range of destabilizing socio-political, economic, ethnic and communal tensions in India.

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