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    Can’t afford to wait: why disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation plans in Asia are still failing millions of people

    Oxfam, 2014
    This briefing note calls for governments across Asia, backed by regional and global institutions and fair contributions from wealthy countries, to ramp up efforts to address the challenges of climate-related disasters and food crises which are holding back development across Asia.
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    The African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group and the European Union (EU)

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2013
    This CCR seminar report addresses the potential for further strategic engagement between the 79-member ACP and the 28-member EU as the third five-year review of the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 on trade, aid, and political cooperation approaches in 2015, and as the end of the 20-year span of Cotonou in 2020 draws nearer.
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    Resource rents, political institutions and economic growth

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The curse associated with oil and other point-source rents is real, though contemporary literature suggests that it is not inevitable. This paper contributes to the empirical literature on oil and other point-source resource curse, but its particular contribution is embedded in the measurement of the impact of resource rents on economic growth.
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    Nutrition of children and women in Bangladesh: trends and directions for the future

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012
    Although child and maternal malnutrition has been reduced in Bangladesh, the prevalence of underweight (weight-for-age z-score <-2) among children aged less than five years is still high (41%). Nearly one-third of women are undernourished with body mass index of <18.5 kg/m2.
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    Anaemia among students of rural China’s elementary schools: prevalence and correlates in Ningxia and Qinghai’s poor counties

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011
    Although the past few decades have seen rising incomes and increased government attention to rural development, many children in rural China still lack regular access to micronutrient-rich diets.
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    Food insecurity, health and nutritional status among sample of palm-plantation households in Malaysia

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012
    Food insecurity is a worldwide problem and has been shown to contribute to poor health and nutritional outcomes. In Malaysia, poor dietary intake, overweight and obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hypercholesterolaemia have been reported to be more prevalent in females compared to males and in Indians compared to other ethnic groups.
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    Secular trends in growth of preschool children from rural Maharashtra, India

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012
    Positive secular trends in body dimensions and growth rate have been apparent all over the world in both genders during the last century. The extent of secular changes has, however, varied during different periods in different populations and in intensity.
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    Civil unrest and government transfers in India

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This paper investigates empirically the role of government expenditure on social services in mitigating and preventing civil unrest (riots) in India. The empirical analysis makes use of a unique longitudinal dataset compiled across the 16 largest Indian states for the period 1960–2011.
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    Mainstreaming climate-sensitive indicators into an existing food monitoring system: climate change and food security in Nepal

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2013
    In 2011, the Government of Nepal made its policy on climate change public. The policy envisions a country “spared from the adverse impacts of climate change, by considering climate justice, through the pursuit of environmental conservation, human development, and sustainable development [with] all contributing toward a prosperous society”.
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    Delaying Artemisinin resistance in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Artemisinin resistance has been called the greatest threat to malaria control, and could lead to loss of the hard-won gains of the last decade. That success has been dramatic: since 2000, malaria deaths have been halved, due in no small part to the widespread use of artemisinins in artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs).

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