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Brave new women of Asia: how distance education changed their lives
Commonwealth of Learning, 2001The document presents a number of case studies exploring women's participation in higher education.DocumentSafety nets and opportunity ladders: addressing vulnerability and enhancing productivity in South Asia
Overseas Development Institute, 2002This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' in broader development goals.DocumentInternational symposium on women in Asian fisheries
The WorldFish Center, 2001This site contains documents from all speeches held at the symposium.Papers include:women in Asian fisheries: a generalist's perspectiveThe role of networks in addressing research and development issues on women in fisheriesempowerment of women in Asian fisheriestechnological changes and their implications for women in fisheriesstrategies for addressing gender issues thrDocumentComparative study of the impacts of donor-initiated programmes on research capacity in the south
Demanding Innovation: articulating policies for demand-led research and research capacity building in the South [seminar], 2001This paper examines Multi-annual, Multidisciplinary Research Programmes (MMRPs) instigated by the Netherlands in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The MMRPs were developed in response to a perceived need for a shift in the key responsibilities in donor funded research (eg in agenda and priority setting,the conduct of the research and financial accounting) from the North to the South.DocumentDraft ministerial declaration: proposal from a group of developing countries.
World Trade Organization, 2001Draft proposal by a grouping of less developed and developing countries for a declaration at the fourth WTO ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. Outlines the general position of those countries with respect to implementation of the TRIPS agreement. The same URL has links to the contrasting developed countries draft proposal along with reporting on the discussion.DocumentWater disputes in South Asia
Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2001The paper examines various water sharing treaties in South Asia, with a comparative evaluation of past and future trends, followed by suggestions for a sustainable future cooperation.It examines:the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan India and Bangladesh dispute over the Ganges river India and Nepal sharing the Mahakali river watersIt makes the following obserDocumentThe Uruguay Round and South Asia : an overview of the impact and opportunities
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995South Asia remains less liberal in trade policy than East Asia, including China. The Uruguay Round's most dramatic effect on South Asia will be the removal of non tariff barriers on the region's exports to the rest of the world.DocumentWhy paper mills clean up : determinants of pollution abatement in four Asian countries
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997Clean production is not uncommon even in very poor countries such as Bangladesh. Even when there is no formal regulation of pollution, large, efficient, domestically owned plants operating near relatively affluent communities have demonstrated excellent environmental performance. The same cannot be said for manufacturing facilities near poor communities.DocumentSources of growth in South Asian economies
Global Development Network, 2000This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole.