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    Infrastructure is vital for pro-poor growth in East Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    East Asian states have made impressive progress with economic growth and poverty reduction. However, some are struggling to meet demand for roads, water, communications, and power. Private investment in infrastructure is slow, especially where regulation is weak, corruption is unchallenged and competition is not encouraged. 
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    Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS

    2006
    Around the world, women are facing a catastrophic assault on their bodies, their rights and their health as a result of the prevalence of HIV and the unrelenting levels of violence against women on a global level. Each constitutes a crisis on its own. Yet in the lives of millions of women these crises are not separable; they are fundamentally linked.
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    Internal migration, poverty and development in Asia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    This ODI paper finds that internal migration could contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty in Asia.
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    Indigenous peoples safeguards

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2007
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has the responsibility of safeguarding Indigenous Peoples (IP) and their ways of living. This report presents the findings of a special evaluation study of the bank's 1998 policy on IP. It provides an overview of the scale and nature of safeguards in the bank's operation and reviews trends.
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    Overview of the effectiveness of National Integrity Systems in East and Southeast Asia

    Transparency International, 2007
    The report identifies the major trends in curbing corruption in East and Southeast Asia.
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    Should donors give aid to developing country budgets?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    As donors seek to improve the effectiveness of aid, they have turned to delivering aid directly to developing country budgets. General budget support funds are used by recipient governments according to their own priorities. It is too early to tell, however, if this is more effective in reducing poverty than project or sectoral funding.
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    Stigma, scale-up, and treatment governance: stumbling block or window of opportunity?

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2006
    This paper from the POLICY Project examines the problems and opportunities associated with the current expansion of access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV.
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    Food insecurity and vulnerability in Viet Nam: profiles of four vulnerable groups

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
    By providing a thorough and disaggregated understanding of vulnerability to food insecurity, the purpose of this document is to inform policy and programming interventions for reducing vulnerability, as experienced by different groups of people.This report documents the main findings of the vulnerable profiling work carried out in Viet Nam, focusing on the livelihood strategies of four groups:
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    Conflicting interests in coastal zones - shrimp farms, agriculture and fishing

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The shrimp industry has expanded greatly over the past 30 years, and it is becoming more intensive. This is because of the increasing demand for shrimps, combined with new farming technologies. This affects other users of coastal zones and has implications for coastal ecosystems.
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    Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth: insights and lessons from country experiences

    World Bank, 2007
    How do growth strategies affect the ability of poor households to participate in and benefit from growth? This book explores how country policies and conditions interact to reduce poverty and to spread the benefits of growth across different income groups. It provides insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth.

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