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    Food and the free market: reforming Indian agriculture

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How has economic reform affected agriculture in India? Can the government liberalise the food market? And if it can, how can reform be achieved? Research by the University of Birmingham found resistance to reform at all levels - organisational, institutional, and social.
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    Home sweet home? Codes for homeworkers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Homeworkers are mostly (up to 90 percent) women - the invisible workforce in global production chains. They machine garments, weave cloth, solder electronics, process food, make parts for cars, or pack goods. At best homeworkers face uncertainty regarding employment or social protection; at worst they are specifically excluded.
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    More than bums on seats: making schools responsive to children’s needs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What factors structure educational disadvantage? How can international agencies work with governments, non-government organisations and communities to overcome them?
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    Feeling poorly? Poverty and depression in Goa, India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are poor people more likely to suffer from depression than the wealthy? Is there a link between disability and mental disorder? What role does gender play? Researchers from the UK Institute of Psychiatry and the Goa Institute of Psychiatry & Human Behaviour, India, investigated the relationship between poverty, disability and depression in Goa.
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    Economic depression: poverty and mental health in developing countries

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are depression and related disorders reaching crisis proportions in the developing world? What are the causes of common mental disorders (CMDs) in low-income countries? Research in Brazil, Chile, India and Zimbabwe, co-ordinated by the UK Institute of Psychiatry, showed that women, those with little education, the poor and older people are most likely to suffer from mental disorders.
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    Throwing away the primer: the 'real literacies' approach to adult literacy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What do we mean by 'illiterate'? Are we being misled by UNESCO rhetoric that literacy is the key to development? What happens when we herd into class individuals who may have nothing in common except for the fact they have been labelled 'illiterate'?
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    Evaluating education - participatory performance indicators

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How to identify and measure the desirable outcomes of education? Can donors work with education ministries and students, parents, and teachers to develop realistic indicators to monitor the progress of education projects? How can data generated be analysed, publicised, and used to inform policy debates?
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    What cost growth? The effect of economic reform on India’s poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Macroeconomic crisis led to India’s initiation of wide ranging economic reforms in 1991. To what extent have these reforms, aimed at accelerating economic growth, adversely affected the poor? Have they increased poverty and inequality? An Institute of Development Studies working paper looks at poverty levels before and after the reform programme.
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    Forest futures: improving institutions for better rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can forest-based livelihoods best be improved? Key constraints lie in the institutional environment - in the relationships between and within the forest department, forest users and the political environment.
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    Winning ingredient: how can NGOs best achieve their goals?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do you measure the success of an international campaign? How does a campaign develop over time? And how does it affect people’s lives? A New Economics Foundation report asks these questions in the context of one NGO campaign for breast-feeding in Ghana and another against the use of child labour in the carpet industry in India.

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