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    Interpersonal violence

    Disease Control Priorities Project, Maryland, 2006
    This chapter is part of a book called Diseases Control Priorities in Developing Countries, published by the Disease Control Priorities Project. This chapter, chapter 40, focuses on interpersonal violence, which is violence inflicted by another individual or small group of individuals.
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    One out of ten: social cash transfer plots in Malawi and Zambia

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    An explicit objective of the current social cash transfer (SCT) pilots in Malawi and Zambia is to learn lessons.  Between them, these schemes, which are now operational in over ten districts, have unquestionablyprovided a wealth of valuable information on how to implement cash transfer interventions in Southern
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    Unintentional Injuries

    Disease Control Priorities Project, Maryland, 2006
    This chapter is part of a book called Diseases Control Priorities in Developing Countries, published by the Disease Control Priorities Project. The chapter examines the issue of unintentional injuries, focusing on a selection of cause-specific unintentional injuries.
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    Enabling or disabling? the operating environment for small & medium enterprises in rural Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007
    This paper gives an overview of the key challenges faced by small and medium-sized rural enterprises (SMEs) in Afghanistan. It is based on detailed case study of 10 small and medium industries. The evidence is drawn from primary data collected in the provinces of Bamyan, Balkh, and Nangarhar, and secondary data from government and non-government sources.
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    Child mortality and injury in Asia

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2007
    This special Innocenti series on Child Injury, developed jointly by UNICEF and TASC, presents recently acquired evidence from surveys in five Asian countries: Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. The surveys are large in scale, similar to a census. In total over half a million households and nearly 2.5 million people were surveyed.
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    What is poverty? A qualitative reflection of people's experience of poverty

    National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2008
    Twelve years after then State President Nelson Mandela inaugurated a ‘war on poverty’, poverty and inequality in South Africa remain high. This is in part the outcome of the fiscal austerity policies implemented during the years of the Growth, Employment and Reconstruction programme (GEAR).
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    Ill health puts urban families under pressure in Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Inadequate infrastructure and services, lack of access to financial resources and weak social networks are just some of the difficulties facing urban households in Kenya. These factors make it even more difficult for them to cope with economic difficulties and ill-health.
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    Disability lowers living standards and happiness in rural Ethiopia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    People in poor countries are often more vulnerable to becoming disabled than those in rich countries. They can also find it more difficult to adapt to living with a disability. In rural Ethiopia, how does disability affect people’s wealth and happiness?
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    The Women's Movement in Africa: Creative Initiatives and Lessons Learnt

    African Journals Online - AJOL, 2005
    Throughout history African women have employed great creativity in addressing the often adverse conditions in which they have found themselves. Post-independence, it has been African women, not their governments, who first proposed the establishment of National Women's Machineries.
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    Gender, Development and Advocacy

    Oxfam, 2005
    How should feminist advocates go about persuading key decision-makers and colleagues within their own institutions and organisations that women's rights and gender equality should underpin all development work? How can they find points of solidarity when they are marginalised in diverse ways, including through disability, HIV/AIDS and ethnicity?

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