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    Financial structure matters for economic growth

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    There is an unresolved debate over whether banks or markets are better at providing financial services and stimulating economic growth. Recent studies showing that neither bank-based nor market-based systems are particularly linked with growth, and they fail to take account of different national experiences.
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    Reconfiguring politics: the Indonesia - Aceh peace process

    Conciliation Resources, 2008
    This journal chronicles the roots of the Aceh conflict and the primary factors that facilitated the success of Aceh's peace initiative that culminated in the Memorandum of Understanding in Helsinki in 2005.  It notes that for the people of Aceh, the years of conflict in the province are synonymous with appalling human rights violations.
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    The last stand of the orangutan – state of emergency: illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia’s national parks

    UNEP Environmental Law Programme, 2007
    Orangutans survive only in the dwindling tropical rainforests of Borneo and northern Sumatra, being dependent on the forest for food and nesting sites. This document describes how orangutan populations are seriously affected when their forest is destroyed or logged, not least because they are often killed for meat or to protect newly planted crops.
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    Social security pension reforms in Thailand and Indonesia: unsustainable and unjust

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2008
    Historically, both Thailand and Indonesia have had relatively limited social security programmes, in terms of labour-force coverage and public expenditure. In the last decade, both have embarked on apparently ambitious reforms to move towards a more embracing system.
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    Controlling corruption: auditing versus community participation

    Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, 2008
    What is the best way to control and measure corruption? This paper outlines a method devised by the author which measures corruption and uses it to evaluate alternative strategies to reduce corruption on an Indonesian road-building project. Two types of strategies were tried: encouraging community participation and increasing the probability of audits.
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    Improving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries

    World Health Organization, 2006
    In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exploratory study to examine more closely the track record of these strategies in twelve low-income countries.
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    Post-tsunami aid effectiveness in Aceh: proliferation and coordination in reconstruction

    Brookings Institution, 2008
    This paper discusses the aftermath of Tsunami of December 26, 2004, where an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale struck off the northeast coast of Aceh . The influx of aid and assistance into the province in the weeks and months that followed was unprecedented and surpassed all expectations.
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    Speaking out: how the voices of poor people are shaping the future

    Oxfam, 2009
    This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation  in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:
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    Poor women miss out as Indonesia’s midwives shun remote villages

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    A major issue in maternal health policy is how to provide incentives for midwives to work in remote areas and deliver services to poorer women. Since the early 1990s, Indonesia has placed rural midwives in every village in an attempt to reduce maternal mortality. But it is uncertain if the incentives are enough to attract midwives to more remote locations.
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    Pensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes.  A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.

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