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  Access to water: a woman’s right?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Having enough water for food production is a key issue in many countries. As water becomes scarce and food requirements increase, there will be a need to produce more food using less water, to protect the quality of water and the environment, particularly in Africa. To achieve this, it will be necessary to improve women’s access rights to water.
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  Thailand: the plight of burmese migrant workers

  Amnesty International, 2005

  This article examines some of the key issues and problems faced by Burmese migrant workers and their families in Thailand. The material is based on testimonies from migrant workers, official documents and media reports.
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  Recovery from the tsunami disaster: poverty reduction and sustainable development through microfinance

  Grameen Foundation USA, 2005

  This paper reports the findings of a team of specialists from the Grameen Foundation USA, deployed in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami to assess conditions facing the poor and the effects of the disaster on the provision of microfinance.
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  Health care financing for rural and low-income populations: the role of communities in resource mobilization and risk sharing

  World Bank, 2002

  This book, published by the World Bank, looks at ways of mobilising resources for health care for people in the rural areas and informal urban sector of low and middle-income countries, focusing on community financing schemes. Countries covered include Senegal, Rwanda, India and Thailand.
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  Globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets.
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  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) for community empowerment through non-formal education: experiences from Lao PDR, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uzbekistan

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005

  This report presents country and regional experiences from ICT for community empowerment through community learning centres (CLC) projects.
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  In focus: AIDS

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This bulletin from the International Poverty Centre (IPC) highlights recent research on poverty and inequality, with a special focus on HIV and AIDS. The first article examines Thailand’s response to HIV and AIDS and finds that a strong political commitment and strategy can effectively halt the spread of HIV within years.
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  Foreign direct investment and regulation: a case study of Thailand’s upstream oil and gas industry

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2005

  This paper is to discusses and identifies conditions which can facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) in the upstream oil and gas industry, where exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas take place.
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  How does fiscal policy affect monetary policy in emerging market countries?

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  Based on empirical evidence on the relation between fiscal and monetary policy, this paper analyses how fiscal policy affects monetary policy in emerging economies (EM). The paper highlights that fiscal dominance can be, or become, an important issue for EMs, as these economies have, in recent years, experienced an increase in public debt and fiscal imbalance.
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  Race to the bottom: exploitation of workers in the global garment industry

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2005

  This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries.

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