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    What does Brunei teach us about using Human Development Index rankings as a policy tool?

    Social Science Research Network, 2014
    The Bruneian Government has set an ambitious target to achieve a top 10 ranking on the UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI) by 2035. To achieve its objective (described in a national strategy document called the Wawasan 2035), Brunei’s economy needs to grow by 6%-7%. Is setting an HDI target a good way to govern Brunei’s policymaking?
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    Homicide Monitor

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    The Homicide Monitor is a data-driven data visualisation tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and dynamics of homicidal violence in an interactive and accessible manner. Since homicidal violence is concentrated in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Monitor includes additional information at the national, state and city scale.
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    VSO Regional Health and AIDS Initiative for Southern Africa (RHAISA): Towards improving the health outcomes and realizing the rights of the disadvantaged

    Voluntary Service Overseas, 2014
    The Regional Health and AIDS Initiative for Southern Africa (RHAISA), is Voluntary Service Overseas’ (VSO’s) flagship programme championing VSO's regional response to HIV and AIDS in southern Africa.
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    Protective Effect of Breastfeeding against Overweight Can Be Detected as Early as the Second Year of Life: A Study of Children from One of the Most Socially-deprived Areas of Brazil

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2015
    Millions of children live in Brazil’s semi-arid region, one of the most socially-deprived areas of the country, where undernutrition co-exists with obesity as a consequence of the nutrition transition. There is evidence that childhood obesity predisposes adult obesity and, thus, that obesity should be prevented as early as possible.
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    Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs)

    Gender-sensitive health policy is a feature of international commitments and consensus documents and national-level normative statements and implementation guidance in many countries.
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    mHealth and Gender: Making the Connection

    Research in Gender and Ethics, 2015
    The use of mHealth interventions withinin health systems research is increasing, with few taking into account the connections between gender and mHealth. This policy brief attempts to fill this gap by exploring key connections between mHealth and gender that need to be taken into account when conducting or implementing mHealth research and interventions.&nbs
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    Fighting Ebola and strengthening China’s humanitarian assistance

    China International Development Research Network, 2014
    Considering China’s valuable experience in fighting SARS in 2002-2003 and the fact it is the second largest economy in the world, China needs to further increase its contribution in this global battle with Ebola and increase the share of its humanitarian assistance in foreign aid. Thia policy briefing argues that:
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    Mitigating transport congestion in Nairobi

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015
    Traffic congestion is one of the key concerns affecting the performance of the transport system in Nairobi. Population growth in Nairobi will most certainly continue to have adverse implications on the transport system and traffic congestion.
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    Is Reliable Water Access the Solution to Undernutrition?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment. However, current evidence on the topic is diluted across many different publications.
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    Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2015
    Poor complementary food hygiene may account for a substantial proportion of diarrhoeal diseases among infants and young children in developing countries, which in turn, account for a large proportion of the global burden of infectious disease. However, most of the information on food hygiene in low income countries derives from expert opinion and

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