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    Stepped-up competition among India's shoe makers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The Indian shoe making industry in Agra has been hard hit by economic changes both at a national and an international level. Employees have lost their jobs and businesses have failed. Economic changes have since severely affected the industry resulting not only in loss of employment, but more crucially in a radical shake-up of its whole structure.
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    Bridging troubled waters. How to agree on shared resources despite environmental change

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What regulatory mechanisms or international legal instruments promise durable solutions to critical cross-border problems like managing shared freshwater resources in the face of uncertain availability and rising demand?
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    Reaching a watershed? Local government reform and water management in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Recent guidelines issued by central government for watershed development in India fit awkwardly with local government or Panchayati Raj. While decentralisation of development planning and implementation are key objectives at both levels, the roles of the proposed Watershed Committees overlap - and potentially compete - with those of the local government.
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    Occupational stereotyping: people's perceptions of age, gender, and caste in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does gender, age, or caste affect how people perceive different types of work in rural India? Non-agricultural work tends to be dominated by men - especially salaried work in rural areas.
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    For richer, for fairer. Poverty reduction and income distribution

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Will the international target of reducing poverty by half over the next 15 years be met? Not unless growth efforts are accompanied by significant improvements in income distribution, according to research conducted at the Overseas Development Institute. Poverty reduction is a twin function of the rate of growth and of changes in income distribution.
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    Learning in the field: can agriculture help in rural primary education?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can agriculture help improve rural primary schooling in developing countries? Universal access to primary education is a sought-after goal in most developing countries as it offers a wide range of benefits. Yet many countries face problems such as low participation, high drop-out rates and under-education of pupils, especially in rural areas.
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    All their tomorrows? Steadier livelihoods for Rajasthan's women, men, and children

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Rural families in Rajasthan, India, have been adapting their livelihoods for over a generation to help create a buffer against the risk of poverty and hunger that overshadows people living in dryland areas. Who stands to gain the most from this process depends on institutional rules and norms that control peoples' access to capital - social, environmental, human, and economic.
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    Empty desks, empty futures: The curse of classroom gender gaps

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is almost a decade since the governments of the world, meeting at Jomtien in Thailand, pledged a commitment to achieving basic education for all, with special emphasis on improving access to primary schools and closing the gender gap.
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    Hands across Asia. Can just-in-time production give India's industries Japan's competitive edge?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The lifting of barriers to world trade is putting pressure on many industries to improve their competitiveness. In many developing countries, strategies for industrialisation include adoption of management techniques from industrially advanced countries. But can such techniques travel?
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    Silicon idols: Problems of harnessing IT in government

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many nations are now embarking on 'electronic government' initiatives that seek to harness the tremendous potential for information technology (IT) to improve public sector efficiency and effectiveness. Yet evidence highlights the very poor record of IT in the public sector. Failure is the norm, success the exception.

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