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  More equitable pricing for essential drugs: what do we mean and what are the issues?

  World Health Organization, 2001

  This paper examines differential pricing (also referred to as "equity pricing" or "preferential pricing"): the concept that essential drugs prices should in some way reflect countries’ ability to pay as measured by their level of income.
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  PVO/NGO tools for household and business impact assessment: report of a planning meeting (Edgcomb / AIMS)

  microLINKS,, 1999
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  Adjustment and Equity

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Adjustment does not necessarily increase poverty.Adjusting before a crisis reduces social costs.Refusal to adjust and the suspension of imports leads to self-centred underdevelopment, which is socially much more costly. The choice of macroeconomic stabilisation measures is important: the same result can be obtained with higher or lower social costs.
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  Pension Reform: Lessons from Latin America

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  There are benefits from Latin American pension reform, but they have been overestimated. The approaches taken in second-generation reforms and their still early results hold lessons for OECD and non-OECD countries alike. A partial shift to funding is feasible and can be financed in different ways; partial funding of pensions can lead to greater risk diversification.
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  Review of progress made in the definition of the right to adequate food in international law: States' obligations, international organizations' obligations and the role of the private sector.

  FAO Right to Food, 1999

  The paper places the effort to define and clarify the rights to food and nutrition within the wider framework of international law and relations based on the United Nations Charter.
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  'Putnam in India': is social capital a meaningful and measurable concept at Indian state level?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  In a seminal and provocative book, Putnam argues that levels of trust, interest in public affairs and political participation are the most important explanatory features of the differential institutional performance across Italian regions over time.
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  Equity in health in unequal societies: towards health equity during rapid social change

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  This paper explores the implications for health policy of the segmentation of society into social groups with very different levels of income and wealth.
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  Disability, poverty and development

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  Assesses the significance of disability as a key development issue, and its importance in relation to poverty, human rights, and the achievement of internationally agreed development targets.
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  The bitterest pill of all: the collapse of Africa's health system

  Save the Children Fund, 2001

  World leaders are discussing a multi-billion dollar package of initiatives aimed at tackling major diseases in poor countries. However, economic crisis and unsuccessful reforms in the past two decades have left many nations with failing health systems. What groundwork is needed before such vast resources are committed?
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  How to Create an Effective Communication Project [on HIV / AIDS]

  Family Health International, 1996

  Careful planning of communication projects is necessary for the success of HIV/AIDS prevention programs. This handbook will guide you through the development of behavior change communication (BCC) projects using a strategy developed by the AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project of Family Health International. The strategy is illustrated by the Communication Pyramid.

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