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  Population and Development: Implications for the World Bank

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994

  Report examines the changes in population dynamics and in the policy environment that have produced this consensus and explores their policy and operational implications for the World Bank's population work. The report has five core messages: Slowing population growth is still a high priority in the poorest countries.
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  Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study

  ProCor, 1997

  Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of common methods to investigate the overall, world wide burden.
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  Tibetan Women Oppression and Discrimination in occupied Tibet

  Office of Tibet, Government of Tibet in Exile, 1999

  Report highlights the particular concerns of Tibetan women inside Tibet and those living as refugees in exile. This report also ncludes a list of recommendations which, it is hoped, will serve as inputs to thediscussions for the Draft Platform.
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  Making debt relief work: a test of political will

  Oxfam, 1998

  Two years ago the adoption by the Governing Boards of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative appeared to signal the beginning of the end of the debt crisis in the world's poorest countries.
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  Water resources managment: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

  List of important document (with abstract) and related WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Civil society: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998

  Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  White Paper on Water Policy, South Africa

  African Water Page, 1999
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  Water policy issues

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997

  This paper discusses the principles underlying sound water policies, examples of good practice in applying those principles, and suggestions for the approaches that could be followed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in the future. In a paper of this length, some knowledge of the factual situation and problems of the water sector in developing countries will be assumed.
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  Economic Reforms And Health Conditions Of The Urban Poor In Tanzania

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  This paper describes the impact of Economic Reforms on the health conditions of the urban poor in Tanzania. The main argument advanced is that Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have exacerbated the declining condition of the urban areas rather than improved them.
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  Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reduction in India', carried out in 1997 by a group of four European and eleven Indian researchers.

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