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  Infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh: analysing changes over time and between States

  Young Lives, 2003

  This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and the factors explaining their differential performance.It concludes that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting the MDGs, and that the success of these efforts is reinforced by female empowerment.
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  Age structural transition and economic growth: evidence from south and southeast Asia

  Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002

  This paper looks at the nature and process of age structural transition in the countries of South and Southeast Asia and its influence on economic growth.
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  Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world)

  United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2003

  This paper empirically explores the contradictions and inadequacies of measurements of growth and inequality between national accounts and surveys. It explores the reasons as to why there is divergence of results from national accounts and survey-based estimates of consumption.
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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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  Intellectual and cultural property rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia

  Minority Rights Group International, 2003

  This report looks at efforts by the UN and governments to protect indigenous and tribal heritage from exploitation; the pressures on governments to allow exploitation of indigenous knowledge; the many initiatives taken by Asian indigenous and tribal peoples to protect their heritage; and the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Trade-Related Aspects of International
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  Behind the mask: the real face of corporate social responsibility

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report examines case studies of Shell in Nigeria, British American Tobacco in Kenya and Coca-cola in India, and argues that the corporate world’s commitments to responsible behaviour are not borne out in practice.
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  Lifelong learning: a new momentum and a new opportunity for adult basic learning and education (ABLE) in the South

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This paper is the result of a study commissioned by Sida on the status and current trends in adult basic education in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The study included a review of relevant documentation in several languages, an electronic survey with key respondents throughout the world, personal interviews and a few field visits.
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  State of change – India’s policy-makers address the health transition

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The health transition, to improve the health of the whole population, is progressing unevenly across India’s diverse states. Research involving the UK Department for International Development examines the challenges this creates for national and state policy-makers. It shows a need for policies and programmes specific to local conditions.
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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.

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