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    Listen to kids! Involving young people in improving urban environments

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is estimated that half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. From young people’s own perspectives, what makes a city a good place to grow up in? What factors help children and youth feel connected to, or alienated from, urban life? How can community development processes encourage children and youth to invest energy and hope in their urban futures?
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    Knowledge, power and development agendas: NGOs north and south

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    ‘Development’ NGOs form an international community of talk. How do ideas, information and knowledge move within this vast and diverse ‘knowledge economy’? How can southern NGOs have more of a voice in determining the work they actually do? How can they get more of their ideas onto the international development agenda?
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    Religion and economic life in India: separate fields of study?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How does the plurality of religions influence the Indian economy? Does religion hinder or promote production? Are minorities ‘rational and cost-effective institutions’ for the transmission of skills and information? Is Hinduism really an inegalitarian faith with a belief system which limits competition and economic mobility?
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    Backward mapping: taking policy implementation forward?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Misjudging the ease of policy implementation can be a costly planning mistake. How can the management of change and implementation of new policy in multi-tiered polities be evaluated? Could ‘backward mapping’ improve understanding of the implementation process for developing countries?
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    Exploring the globalisation-poverty linkage: findings from South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does globalisation lead to higher growth rates and reduction in absolute poverty? How should economists disentangle and quantify the impact of globalisation shocks from other influences? How can we judge whether those with very little connectedness to the world economy are being affected by globalisation?
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    Exploring the water-gender interface: do domestic water projects really empower women?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Development agencies routinely assert that community water projects have positive gender outcomes. Does the claim stand up? Is water sector policy based on assumptions or on evidence? Why do gender theorists and water sector practitioners not see eye to eye? How should we evaluate women’s empowerment and involvement in water projects?
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    Institutional learning through technical projects: horticulture technology in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What happens when development projects are seen as purely technical activities? And what happens when, as a result, the implementation is left to other agencies or the market? New research in India reveals that the technical approach is highly inefficient in the normal economic sense.
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    Asia – success or failure? Provident funds governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many Asian countries rely on provident funds to finance retirement. Globalisation, rapid ageing, a need for fiscal consolidation and more individualistic preferences have increased the significance of provident funds, but substantive reforms in their governance are needed to realise their full potential.
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    Pensions for life? The rise of pensions as a development issue

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided individual retirement plans. Less conspicuous, but no less important, South Africa and Brazil reformed their basic pension plans to achieve almost universal coverage.
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    Community-based health insurance: does it benefit the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Local health insurance has become increasingly popular in developing countries over the past two decades. But do these schemes benefit the poor? How could they be improved? Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Christian Medical College, Vellore, considers the quality of hysterectomy care in rural Gujarat for women belonging to a local health insurance scheme.

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