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  Policy processes: an annotated bibliography on policy processes, with particular emphasis on India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  The bibliography contains 132 entries on policy processes generally, and another 64 on India. Almost two thirds of the 196 entries are annotated. All entries have keywords and there is an index of keywords at the end. The entries are rigorously selected to include information of the broadest range, most up to date and most relevant to India.This bibliography focuses on public policy processes.
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  Training and skill formation for decent work in the informal sector: case studies from South India

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  Based on case studies in India, this paper seeks to understand the ways in which skills are developed in the informal sector and how the workers are trained, if at all.
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  Simputer: computers for the poor or an idealistic dream?

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article discusses the Simputer, a handheld computing device with a touch-sensitive screen that can carry out many of the services carried out by 'normal' computers. In addition, it can function in several Indian languages, and a single device can be easily shared by a number of users in the same village. It could have many applications and even be used by the illiterate.
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  Facing up to the storm: how local communities can cope with disaster: lessons from Orissa and Gujarat

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This disaster management book identifies how people, even in the poorest parts of the developing world, can survive disasters if they are involved in all aspects of managing disasters from response to prevention.
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  Scrapping the hi-tech myth: computer waste in India

  Toxics Link, 2003

  This report investigates the dumping of e-waste, particularly computer waste in India.
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  Unlimited companies: the developmental impacts of an investment agreement at the WTO

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003.ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negotiated at the WTO could inflict lasting damage on the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries.
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  The epidemiological impact of an HIV vaccine on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern India

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the potential epidemiological impact of preventive HIV vaccines on the HIV epidemic in Southern India using a mathematical deterministic dynamic compartmental model.Various assumptions about the degree of protection offered by such a vaccine, the extent of immunological response of those vaccinated, and the duration of protection afforded are explored.
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  FHI/UNAIDS best practices in HIV/AIDS prevention collection

  Family Health International, 2001

  This collection of work is centred on HIV/AIDS prevention in the non-industrialised world and is based on studies performed by FHI's international and local partners in an international HIV prevention, the AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project.The book offers case studies, models and lessons learnt to assist individuals, communities, municipalities, non-governmental organisations, busin
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  Gender equality in sector wide approaches: a reference guide

  OECD Development Centre, 2002

  This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture.It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach:contributes to overall sustainability and effectivenessis fully responsive to the needs and interests of both women and men and helps to promote gender equalityThe case studies identif
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  Tackling gender issues in sustainable land management

  Centre for Development and Environment, Berne, 2002

  This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities.It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management.

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