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  Knowledge flows and knowledge collectives: understanding the role of science and technology policies in development: volume 1: knowledge flows, innovation, and learning in developing countries

  Center for Science, Policy, & Outcomes, 2003

  This report is part one of a two volume set of papers from a number of CSPO scholars and is a project for the Global Inclusion Program of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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  Chronic poverty in India: lessons from recent research

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper is based on a synthesis of recent literature on poverty in India. It argues that within the context of urban poverty in India, spatial analysis does not feature prominently enough within the recent livelihoods work.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Politics and Power: A Gendered Perspective from South Asia

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2003

  This paper produced for Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)'s Political Restructuring and Social Transformation Programme outlines the spaces, strategies and contradictions arising from women's political involvement in South Asia.
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  Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat: project for the empowerment of women waste-pickers

  Global Development Network, 2002

  This paper reports on a project to organise a group of women whose livelihoods are based on waste-picking.
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  Pro-poor irrigation management transfer?

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) can contribute to rural poverty by aggravating existing inequities within irrigation schemes or introducing new ones.
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  Building high-performance knowledge institutions for water management

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that many Indian water management institutions are failing to live up to their original promise, failing to deliver high-value thinking, insights or perspectives. It demonstrates that by allowing these institutions to stagnate, there is a risk of a loss of a vitally important tool for research and policy making.
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  Characteristics of India’s informal and formal trading with Nepal: a comparative analysis

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001

  Informal trade between India and Nepal continues to thrive despite trade liberalisation in the two countries, but what is the nature of this trade?
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  Organized labour in the 21st century

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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  Extreme deprivation in remote areas in India: social exclusion as an explanatory concept

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper elaborates on the multi-dimensionality of poverty and processes that contribute to deprivation , arguing that social exclusion is a helpful concept to further our understanding of poverty, and proposes to apply the relatively new concept of social exclusion to provide better insight into the dimensions and causes of poverty in one of India’s poorest regions.

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