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  Project MAP: measuring access and performance: lessons learned and recommendations

  Population Services International, 2005

  This report from Population Services International (PSI) outlines a pilot project that developed a system for measuring equity of access to reproductive healthcare products. Project MAP (Measuring Access and Performance) began in August 2003 and the report provides findings from the first year.
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  Making infrastructure work for the poor

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  Infrastructure is a general concept that encompasses many of the obvious, physical features of civilisation. But more relevant to the goal of poverty reduction are infrastructure services, which include the social and economic benefits associated with infrastructure per se.
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  Thai-Buddhist leadership and Muslim grassroots women in the game of "terrorism" war: the unrest southern Thailand crisis

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  This report examines women’s political participation and leadership in the context of the current political situation in Thailand.The author argues that in Thailand there is new awareness of gender issues, even though the number of women in leading positions remains unacceptably low.
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  Shaking our foundations: media and the Asian Tsunami

  International Federation of Journalists, 2005

  This report gives an overview of the challenges journalists and media organisations face in the aftermath of the tsunami. The massive earthquake and subsequent tsunamis devastated a number of communities in a dozen Indian Ocean countries.
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  First hand knowledge: voices across the Mekong: community action against trafficking of children and women

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This paper is an account of the stories of children and women, and the communities to which they belong, who explain their engagement in a program designed to help prevent trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation. The accounts are drawn from communities in the five participating countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and China.
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  Special evaluation study on small-scale freshwater rural aquaculture development for poverty reduction

  Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2004

  Linking aquaculture development approaches to viable livelihood opportunities for the rural poor remains a challenge. The poor face many constraints to participation in aquaculture, primarily due to a lack of access to capital and resources, vulnerability, and aversion to risks.
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  Guidelines improve nurse-led care in Thailand

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In many high income countries, nurses or nurse practitioners provide particular components of primary health care services equal or better to that offered by doctors. It is not yet clear whether the same success can be achieved in middle or low income countries, where nurses run primary care facilities with no doctors available to give support.
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  Tsunami response: a human rights assessment

  ActionAid International, 2006

  This report from ActionAid outlines how one year after the Tsunami, despite the tremendous efforts of local, national and international agencies, the rehabilitation and reconstruction process is fraught with difficulties.
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  Humanitarian exchange: the tsunami response

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2005

  This on-line issue of the Humanitarian Exchange journal focuses on the emergency response to the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004.Within the humanitarian community, there are diverse views about whether all that money has been wisely spent.
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  Measuring the impact of prices on inequality: with applications to Thailand and Korea

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  The cost of living index has been developed to give a precise meaning to price indices that are widely computed to make cost of living comparisons. To take into account the effect of price changes on income inequality, social cost of living indices are needed which are relevant for many individuals in the society.

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