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    Seeing people through the trees: scaling up efforts to advance rights and address poverty, conflict and climate change

    The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2008
    The report discusses how tensions over forests in coming decades will influence the severity of climate change, the course of wars and civil conflicts, and the health of the world. It is asserted that few development interventions in forest areas have worked in favour of either the forest dwellers or the forests and that a new approach and urgent action is needed.
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    Assessing Household Poverty and Wellbeing: A Manual with Examples from Kutai Barat

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2007
    Reflecting the results of a 3-year participatory learning process, this manual aims to provide technical guidelines and background information to poverty assessors at district, sub-district and village level in Kutai Barat, Indonesia.
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    Water, livelihoods and growth: concept paper

    Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region, 2007
    With a focus on RIPPLE (Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region), this paper looks at research-inspired policy and practice learning in Ethiopia and the Nile.
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    The new social and economic order in 21st century China: can the government bring a kinder, gentler mode of development?

    Oxford University Library, 2008
    This paper addresses the new turn in China‘s development paradigm and assesses its prospects, focusing particularly on whether the government will be able to improve rural public services, and reverse the trend of growing inequality. This assessment is done through the lens of fiscal policies, the primary instrument for the government in implementing the new paradigm.
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    Global Union Research Network (GURN)

    The GURN is a cooperation project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) , the Global Union Federations (GUFs), the ILO's Internat
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    Tackling a global crisis: International Year of Sanitation 2008

    UN-Water, 2008
    The UN General assembly declared 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS). The IYS provides the global community with an opportunity to raise awareness and accelerate actions for the achievement of the sanitation Millennium Development Goals through a variety of actions and interventions. This document presents an overview of the key issues and messages of the IYS.
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    Approaches to rural poverty alleviation in developing Asia: role of water resources

    Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2008
    Focusing on water resources and irrigation, this paper documents a talk by Michael Lipton exploring approaches to poverty alleviation in developing Asia. The talk discusses the findings of a recent paper ‘Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia: poverty in irrigated agriculture - realities, issues, and options with guidelines’.
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    Water and the rural poor: interventions for improving livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

    Land and Water Development Division, FAO, 2008
    Insecure access to water for consumption and productive uses is a major constraint on poverty reduction in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This publication addresses the linkage between water and rural poverty in the region, in order to help decision-makers make informed choices on where and how to invest.
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    Improving land access for India's rural poor

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2008
    Since Independence, India’s states have employed several land reform ‘tools,’ including reforming tenancy, imposing land ceilings, distributing government wasteland, and allocating house sites and homestead plots. This article briefly summarises some of these past efforts and attempts to draw broad lessons for informing possible policy paths ahead.
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    Urban poor housing in Bangladesh and potential role of ACHR

    Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Thailand, 2007
    Housing is a serious problem for the urban poor in Bangladesh. In the capital city of Dhaka alone nearly 30 per cent of the population live in informal settlements. Tenure insecurity is a dominant characteristic of informal settlements.

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