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    Subsidy or self-respect? Lessons from Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In large parts of Bangladesh, people in both rural and urban areas practice open defecation. Despite 30 years of efforts by international agencies and non-governmental organisations to improve environmental sanitation, it is hard to find even 100 villages out of nearly 85 000 that are completely sanitised.
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    Urban sanitation: are the poor being heard?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The international commitment to provide basic services for all has yet to be achieved for a high percentage of the urban poor. Residents of densely crowded settlements endure the indignity, shame and sickness that lack of sanitation produces. Improved sanitation will provide real benefits to the lives and livelihoods of the poor.
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    Poverty and disability: Breaking the vicious cycle through inclusion

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The proportion of disabled people is high among the very poor. Yet disabled people and disability issues are largely excluded from international development organisations and research. How can development researchers and policy-makers take inclusion seriously?
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    Lost in space: Locating the chronically poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    People living in certain areas are often vulnerable to similar risks, increasing their chance of becoming chronically poor. At the same time, in some poor areas not everyone is poor, and not everyone who is poor will remain so for long. Where do ‘pockets of poverty’ exist and why? Under what conditions can they become ‘poverty traps’?
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    Depressing news – psychological therapy fails to help Indian patients with common mental disorders

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Common mental disorders are major causes of disability in the developing world. Treatment for these conditions in wealthier nations includes drugs and psychological therapy. Would these strategies work in developing countries?
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    Gloomy prospects – effects of postnatal depression on infants’ development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In wealthy countries, postnatal depression affects between 10 to 15 per cent of women. It can affect a baby’s progress, especially its cognitive (mental) development. Is this true in developing countries? Can it also affect growth? Researchers from the Sangath Centre looked at the impact of postnatal depression on infant growth and development in Goa, India.
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    Engaging idea – community-based rehabilitation for schizophrenia in rural India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) provides care for people with physical disabilities in low-income countries where specialised resources are scarce. Could this strategy be adapted to meet the complex needs of people with severe mental disorders?
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    Community forestry groups and gender inequality in South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is collective action in the context of community forestry equitable, efficient and sustainable? This study examines this question from a gender perspective in the context of India and Nepal, and suggests ways in which the functioning of community forestry groups can be improved.
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    Unveiling the unrecorded: understanding the complex financial lives of India’s poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do the poor manage their money on a daily and a monthly basis? To what extent are their needs fulfilled by institutions? What do they do when banks and NGOs fail to help? What is the unmet demand in the services required by the poor and what can financial service providers learn from the informal sector?
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    Behaving badly? Young men and sexual health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can young men change their attitudes to sex and sexual health? What methods can be used to challenge their views? Researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and Southampton University considered ways of improving the sexual health of young men in developing countries.

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