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    Self-governance for city residents and changes in community management styles

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The urban management system of China has remained basically intact for several thousand years. However, since the implementation of policies of reform and liberalisation, city residents have enhanced their independent awareness and have established positions of individual interest.
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    Civil society and reconstruction of national knowledge governance system: growth and role of unofficial knowledge diffusion mechanism

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    An important institutional arrangement for social governance, which the state in China has relied on since 1949, has been the monopoly of knowledge production and diffusion. This article attempts to summarize some theoretical views.
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    Contracting for the delivery of primary health care in Cambodia: design and initial experience of a large pilot-test

    World Bank, 2000
    Is contracting the delivery of publicly-financed health services to the private sector effective and efficient? This paper from the World Bank describes and assesses the design and early implementation experience of three approaches to health service delivery used by a project in Cambodia.
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    Sector-wide approaches for health development: a review of experience

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    Sector-wide approaches (SWAps) are intended to produce a single sector policy and expenditure program, but what have the experiences and consequences been in countries that have adopted SWAps for health development, and what affect do they have on the poor?
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    Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

    Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
    Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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    Fourth Synthesis Report on the working conditions situation in Cambodia's garment sector

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    Under an agreement between the governments of Cambodia and the United States of America, which increases Cambodia's export entitlements to the US if labour standards improve, the ILO produces an annual report on standards in Cambodian garment factories.This document presents the fourth such report. It reports on monitoring procedures and results.
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    Snapshots of primary and secondary education in Asia-Pacific

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2001
    This publication is the first in a new series entitled Educational Innovation for Development, produced by ACEID (Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development), to reflect the very wide range of imaginative initiatives that are currently being pursued in APEID Member States by Ministries of Education, international funding agencies, institutions and individuals to meet the rang
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    10 key stages towards effective participatory curriculum development

    Helvetas, 2002
    The paper introduces and describes basic principles and approaches of curriculum development and the learning process, and presents a case study of PCD in the Social Forestry Support Programme in Vietnam.The document is intended to help trainers, such as: community extension workers in NGO or GO projects and programmes; teaching and lecturing staff of formal and non-formal education
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    Foreign direct investment in China: some lessons for other countries

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002
    This paper points out both advantages and disadvantages of China’s increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) and provides a list of important lessons for other governments which want to promote growth and productivity in their countries.It identifies that the main factors to contribute to China’s success are:market sizelabour costsquality of infrastructuregovern
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    Do microfinance programs help families insure consumption against illness?

    Institute for Development Research, Boston, 2002
    Families in developing countries face enormous financial risks from major illness both in terms of the cost of medical care and the loss in income associated with reduced labour supply and productivity.The authors test whether access to microfinancial savings and lending institutions helps Indonesian families smooth consumption after declines in adult health.

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